Your scorching Saturday: ‣ There’s a whole lotta psych-rock going on at the Echo, Echoplex and Origami Vinyl today. The Echoes West festival brings ’60s stalwarts Strawberry Alarm Clock along with Dead Meadow, Lords of Altamont, Sleep Over, Spindrift, Sterling Roswell, Gram Rabbit, Silver Chords, Electric Flower Group, Strangers Family Band, United Ghosts and more […]
Here’s your super Saturday: ‣ Jack White does a second night at the Shrine Auditorium in support of his album “Blunderbuss.” ‣ Austin’s psychedelic rockers White Denim headline the Troubadour with L.A. band Seasons as support. ‣ ’80s pop legends Duran Duran continue touring and stop by the the Pacific Amphitheatre. ‣ Red Hot Chili […]
And then there was Saturday: ‣ Two bands with highly anticipated albums on the way – Magic Wands (pictured) and Gliss – team up with Sabrosa Purr and Harper Blynn at the benefit show for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s SXSW efforts at the Satellite. Magic Wands’ “Aloha Moon” is en route April 24, and […]
The first two albums from L.A. trio Gliss tread in the footsteps of some of rock’s great shoegazing bands, taking their sometimes-inscrutable wall of sound and ladling on a thick coat of danger and angst. Martin Klingman, Victoria Cecilia and David Reiss had hinted that the follow-up to 2009’s “Devotion Implosion” would be different, and […]
Color me eager to hear new material from these 10 artists:
Mark Sovel (aka Mr. Shovel) is back in business of premiering new tunes – the former music director of the dearly departed Los Angeles FM station Indie 103.1 (2003-’09) has launched an online video series. Residing on his new website MrShovel.com and on Vimeo, Sovel’s series takes the name of his old local music show […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Paul Oakenfold …] Top 4 Monday night hangs: ‣ Physical Forms – a new five-piece featuring the Mae Shi’s Jeff Byron and Marcus Savino, Busdriver, Kevin Lenhart (Division Day) and Marty Sataman (Silver Daggers) – debut at Pehrspace. Got the lowdown from Byron himself. ‣ Strong finish to this […]
The Buzz Bands-hosted party certainly isn’t the only show in town tonight, but, well, for selfish reasons I will tout it first. It’s a night of great guitar rock at the Echoplex – doors open at 8:30, with the Broken Remotes playing at 9, Amusement Parks of Fire at 10, the Lassie Foundation [pictured last […]
Gliss’ current tour may not necessarily be one for the ages, but it’s certainly one for the police blotter. The L.A. trio, criss-crossing the country in support of its sophomore release “Devotion Implosion” [review], has felt the exhilaration of playing several bang-up shows – they circle back to L.A. and play with Von Iva on […]
[News for short attention spans:] Two of L.A.’s biggest recent break-out bands, the Airborne Toxic Event and Iglu & Hartly, are teaming up to do a $30-per-ticket benefit June 17 at the Avalon Hollywood. The third annual Design for Humanity, the charitable arm of clothing company Billabong, will benefit Charity: Water, which funds water wells […]
