Tonight in L.A.: Gothic Tropic, Daniel Lanois, Imaad Wasif
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Also on Tuesday: Mothlight, Nicole Smith, Lucy & La Mer, XXXTentacion, Kenny Moreno, ’68, Emo Nite, Amy Vachal
This Week’s Shows: June 5-11
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Incoming: Playboy Jazz Festival, Former Faces, Moon Honey, Daniel Lanois, Gothic Tropic, Mothlight, Imaad Wasif, Princess, Valerie June, Bag Raiders, Earthless, Sheryl Crow, WATERS, So Many Wizards, Wild Belle, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Maxim Ludwig, ZZ Ward, White Fence, JMSN, the Anniversary
Stream: Imaad Wasif, ‘Far East’
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Imaad Wasif’s fourth solo album “Dzi” — his first since 2011 — will be out in June. It’s produced by Best Coast’s Bobb Bruno. File under “dream metal.”
Stream: EFG, ‘Outlier’
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EFG, the trio of Imaad Wasif, Josh Garza and Tom Biller, will release a new 7-inch on April 1. “Outlier” is for outsiders everywhere.
Video: EFG, ‘Suzanne’
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The first new song from the L.A. trio in over a year deviates from their earlier heavy space-rock, but it’s no less mystic.
Stream: EFG (Electric Flower Group), ‘Singing Bridges’ (finished version)
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In March we shared the demo for “Singing Bridges,” a work-in-progress by EFG, the talented triumvirate of Imaad Wasif, Josh Garza and Tom Biller. Having started as a duo under the name Electric Flower (eventually morphing to Electric Flower Group), Wasif and Garza released two EPs of tantalizing, next-level psych-rock before adding Grammy-winning producer Biller (who […]
Ears Wide Open: Electric Flower
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Think of this as a match made at a gloriously noisy station in heaven: Electric Flower pairs one of the most formidable shredders around, guitarist Imaad Wasif, with one of the most ferocious drummers, Josh Garza of Secret Machines. The story goes that they met while trapped in an elevator in London some years ago, […]
Download: No Age, ‘Male Masturbation,’ from the ‘Beat L.A.’ charity compilation
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The Los Angeles underground has always been a sprawling, gnarly place, and a new collection titled “Beat L.A.” goes where few covers albums have gone before. The project – from Narnack Records and Greatmind Records – is a charity effort benefiting Doctors Without Borders and that organization’s relief efforts in earthquake-torn Haiti. The compilation (out […]
L.A. artists explore the sense of ‘Adventure’
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Television’s 1977 album “Marquee Moon” is recognized as one of the greatest debut albums of all time. The quartet’s follow-up, “Adventure,” was excellent (if less rough around the edges) in its own right – and now L.A. blogging luminary Aquarium Drunkard has cast a spotlight on it with the release of “L’Aventure,” a digital compilation […]
Tonight in L.A.: Lou Barlow, Imaad Wasif, Cold Cave
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Lou Barlow, who was there at the beginning when Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh started making noise back in the day, visits Spaceland tonight – his Lou Barlow & The Missing Men support the residency of his former bandmate in the Folk Implosion, Imaad Wasif. The final night of Wasif’s Silver Lake stand promises to be […]
