[In response to the inevitable questions I am asked at shows – What have you heard? What are you listening to? What’s new? – today I embark on something called Random Dispatches … the contents of my notebook, spilt.] ‣ Lavender Diamond’s recent show at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts was a revelation, […]
Next thing you know, Glitch Age will be the New Rage. … Although, there’s more than a kernel of seriousness in that quip. With producers and beatmakers always seeking new sonic turf, the ambient soil of New Age music seems fertile territory. And if Jimmy Tamborello (aka Dntel) is experimenting there, others may follow. Tamborello, […]
[Happy birthday, Joan Jett. Now for a busy Thursday night …] Top 5 places to be tonight (at one time, if you’re really good): ‣ Maybe you remember Cloud Cult’s raucous set at Coachella in 2009. Maybe you like to see live painting onstage while a band performs. Maybe you’re heard the Minneapolis art-pop collective’s […]
It seems like Paul Larson has been a familiar figure on the Silver Lake scene before there was even a Silver Lake scene. Larson, the lead singer and principal confessor in the Minor Canon, made an album with Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, the Postal Service) and Chris Gunst (Beachwood Sparks) during the Clinton Administration, and has […]
The sweaty, sold-out show by And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead on Nov. 13 at the Echo was a hit with longtime fans of the Texas trio. Spaceland Recordings will release a live album recorded at the gig later this spring – for now, however, they are offering a free download […]
It’s late at night and I’m feeling ambient, and not a little bit twee — a good time to discover London-based singer-songwriter Erin Lang (a collaborator and co-founder of the upstart label 99X/10 with former Cure keyboardist Roger O’Donnell). On the Canadian-born singer’s recent EP, Jimmy Tamborello (wearing his Dntel hat) gives the remix treatment […]
What’s next for for Dntel/James Figurine/Figurine main man Jimmy Tamborello? He says he’s collaborating with L.A. songstress Mia Doi Todd on a yet-to-be-named project. “I’ve given her songs that she’s writing to,” he says of the singer-songwriter, who released her seventh album, “GEA,” earlier this year. In other news, Tamborello refused to rule out an […]
