Around town tonight: ‣ Panic! at the Disco, Fun and Funeral Party play to a sold-out Wiltern. Love it when pop-punk bands bust out the strings. ‣ Strong local bill at the Satellite, where Manhattan Murder Mystery is joined by Death to Anders and George Glass. ‣ Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel, aka Two Gallants, […]
[The second installment of our Los Angeles-goes-to-SXSW preview:] DAEDELUS If you like: Alfred Darlington. And who the hell doesn’t? What’s up with him: Daedelus emerged from the Dublab crew to become one of the most innovative and eclectic producers around, sporting his dandy look and playing gadgets we won’t pretend to understand. His new album […]
East L.A. dance-punks Funeral Party have a new release out this week, but it’s not the one originally planned. The band’s long-awaited debut album for RCA, “Golden Age of Knowhere,” originally scheduled to be out this week, has been pushed back to March 29 – mainly because the band has been doing so well in […]
Top 4 reasons to procrastinate wrapping holiday gifts tonight: ‣ John Grant, whose album “Queen of Denmark” got the nod as the top release of the year by Mojo magazine, is joined by the Chapin Sisters and J. Tillman for a 7 p.m. show at the Autry Museum. That’s Grant’s video for “Chicken Bones,” above. […]
It’s not hard to imagine that East L.A. kids Funeral Party played their first show under circumstances like this. Find a house, plug in, play. The quintet’s debut album “Golden Age of Knowhere” comes out in January, and it’s been serving most of Buzz Bands’ dance-punk needs ever since the promo landed in our laps. […]
For Funeral Party, the young East L.A. dance-punks who seem ready to take the world by storm, the wait must be agonizing. The band turned heads in late 2008, toured supporting the likes of Trail of Dead and Julian Casablancas and finished an album bearing the studio fingerprints of Lars Stalfors (the Mars Volta) and […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Owen Pallett …] Tonight’s top 3 hangs: ‣ Funeral Party – the young East L.A. rockers who recently made NME’s list of the year’s top new bands – kick off a residency at the Bootleg Theater. They’re signed to RCA, which has pushed back the release of their debut […]
It’s been two-plus years since I happily stumbled upon Funeral Party at the Echo, and more than a year since I talked to James Torres about how fast the L.A. quintet was growing up. Since then, they’ve been busy – polishing their previously DIY sound, preparing their debut album “Golden Age of Nowhere” (which won’t […]
[Re-posting this because some gremlins seem to have invaded the original – sorry.] Top 3 reasons tonight is like Friday: ‣ Local dance-punks Funeral Party (album coming in early ’11; background here), on tour with Danish rockers New Politics, play the Viper Room. And if New Politics singer David Boyd has half the moves he […]
[Happy Cinco de Mayo. And happy birthday, Adele. Here’s your fare for 5/5/10:] Anticon soundscapist and Andrew Bird collaborator Martin Dosh [that’s his video for “Airlift,” above] hits the Echo tonight behind the April release of his fifth album “Tommy.” Supporting is local boy genius Will Wiesenfeld is his new incarnation as Baths. … The […]
