Psych-pop web-spinners Incan Abraham upped their game when they worked with Lewis Pesacov (Fool’s Gold, Foreign Born) and Clinton Welander (Jimmy Cliff) on their new single “Tuolumne,” which boasts a surging melody over the L.A. quartet’s signature polyrhythms. The remarkable video for the song, directed Logan Adermatt and Teddy Cafaro, is a tale of desperation […]
Psych-rock quartet Incan Abraham and dreamy synth-poppers Hot As Sun [pictured] head up the lineup for the Aug. 17 installment of Chinatown Summer Nights, the monthly party that brings live music, KCRW DJs and cultural activities galore to downtown L.A. For the final Summer Nights of 2013, the LA Weekly Live Music Stage expands from […]
With last year’s “Springhouse” EP, L.A. quartet Incan Abraham set the bar high for its polyrhythmic psych-pop, weaving its layers of electronics and vocals together in a finespun fabric seemingly tethered to little except their own (admittedly estimable) fancy. The band’s new single for White Iris, “Tuolumne” is a more taut affair. Collaborating with Lewis Pesacov […]
Happy 7/11 … now if the weather only clears up: ‣ Surfer Blood, their new album “Pythons” out last month, head up the first of the free Twilight Concert Series shows at the Santa Monica Pier. Terraplane Sun supports. ‣ Indie-rockers So Many Wizards help kick off the “Roaring Nights at the L.A. Zoo” series, […]
Incoming: Future Bible Heroes, Todd Rundgren, Western Lows, Tokimonsta, the Webb Brothers, Amadou & Miram, Queen Latifah, Crash Kings, Yes, Surfer Blood, Inc., Ximena Sariñana, Incan Abraham, Olafur Arnalds, Portugal. The Man, Akron/Family, Hunter Hunted, Say Anything, Vieux Farka Touré, Young Dubliners, Las Cafeteras, Lightning in a Bottle festival Slightly Stoopid, Colbie Caillat, Psychedelic Furs, […]
The opener of the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival might have been light on the crowds, but there was no shortage of energy from the performers. Kitten [top photo], Trash Talk, the Black Lips and Obliterations peeled what was left of the paint off the the downtown warehouse complex that hosted the venue, and whether […]
For all its promotional heft, the reinvented, relocated Jubilee Music & Arts Festival on Friday felt like Introduction to Concert-Going. That owed mostly to the crowd, which was not only alarmingly sparse but very young. Rosy-cheeked fans moved in gaggles, bouncing to music from peers such as teenaged quartet Cherry Glazerr, moshing to rough-and-tumble rockers […]
The Jubilee Music & Arts Festival made it official tonight: The Drums, Black Lips, Free Energy and Kitten top the bill for the two-day event June 7-8. Promoters have extended the availability of pre-sale weekend passes, at $35, until Thursday. Formerly known as the Silver Lake Jubilee, the festival this year has moved from the […]
A huge Grammy weekend Saturday night: ‣ Might he cover Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour?” Austin’s Gary Clark Jr. does a show at the Roxy they’re calling “A Late Night With Gary Clark Jr.” – it starts at 11:59 p.m. ‣ The legendary Dr. John visits the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Grammy-nominated Ed Sheeran holds […]
Coachella, you’ve got company. Desert Daze, a by-the-bootstraps festival that debuted over 11 days last year in Desert Hot Springs, today announced a hallucination-inducing lineup headed up by Saharan rockers Tinariwen and L.A.’s Warpaint. The one-day event on Saturday, April 20 – opposite the second day of Coachella’s second weekend – also features Chelsea Wolfe, […]
