[Birthday greetings today for nice-guy troubadour Jason Mraz. Here’s a snapshot of tonight’s offerings:] After what seems like an interminable wait, Foreign Born’s sophomore album “Person to Person” is out today on Secretly Canadian. The L.A. quartet is eschewing a club show to celebrate the release, instead opting to play a 6 p.m. in-store at […]
There’s no terrestrial radio station to tout it – and somebody get to work on that, will ya? – but the Hammer Museum’s summertime music series, “Also I Like to Rock,” returns to the Westwood Village institution in July with a lively slate of indie-rock bands. The series, promoted in past years by rock station […]
[Two cool feasts for the eyes and ears from L.A. environs …] Glasser is the nom de tune of L.A. singer-songwriter Cameron Mesirow, whose airy, beat-driven electro-hymns seem to defy gravity. Foreign Born’s Matt Popieluch collaborates in her band, whose three-song 12-inch, including this tune, “Apply,” will be released on True Panther on May 26 […]
[Fond birthday wishes go out to Edie Brickell this morning … now, for the rest of the going-out:] Ex-Lonesome Cowboys frontman Randy Weeks [pictured at left] just released a new album of his rootsy, good-natured pop, “Going My Way,” and the Austin-by-way-of-L.A. singer-songwriter celebrates with a show at the Mint. … Are these guys on […]
If nothing else, Foreign Born has become very astute at biding its time. The L.A. quartet arrived in ’05 with and EP and a single (“We Had Pleasure”) that should have put them on the map immediately. After they recorded their debut “In the Remote Woods,” the indie labels that should have come calling didn’t. […]
