Just in time for tonight’s supermoon, L.A. duo Supermoon — Neva Dinova’s Jake Bellows and Whispertown’s Morgan Nagler — have announced the surprise release of their album “Half Country.” It is indeed half-country, and all heart.
Incoming: Childish Gambino, the Buttertones, Moby, Lukas Nelson, Father John Misty, the Soft Moon, Opus VitaeNortec Collective, Hawk Percival, Thom Yorke, Criminal Hygiene, Travis Scott, the Internet, PJ Morton, Protomartyr, Dreamers, Thundercat, the Growlers, Ministry, Fishbone, Brian Wilson, Redd Kross, LA Gives Back, Tenacious D, the California Honeydrops, Questlove, Brother Ali, the Garden, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Johnnyswim, Eric Bellinger, Cults, John Legend, the Neighbourhood
Footwear and flowers are the stars of Whispertown’s video for “I’m a Man,” a meditation about identity and empathy. Whispertown plays tonight at Resident.
Jake Bellows’ metaphorical “Little Bird” takes flight in the new video written and directed by Martin Kenna and starring Darrick Silkman.
Rig 1 — aka Ian McElroy of Desaparecidos — shares his new song “Mother” (from “Tasting the Mothership,” out Nov. 18) and touts five albums made by other Omaha ex-pats in L.A.
Also on Thursday: Vic Mensa, Smoke Season, the Last Shadow Puppets, Miranda Lambert, Mother Father, Jake Bellows, the Black Watch, Sand Babes, Matthew Teardrop
Jake Bellows possesses the evocative voice of a man who’s seen a lot, or at least felt a lot, and his early music as part of the Omaha band Neva Dinova juxtaposed that vocal intimacy with expansive guitar textures. Relocated to Los Angeles from the Midwest in 2010, Bellows has slowly been fleshing out the […]
Thursday’s things: ‣ Pinback is touring behind its latest great album “Information Received” (the music video for “Proceed to Memory,” above, is a time-lapse depiction of the creation of their new mural in Brooklyn) and hits the El Rey Theatre, supported by Judgement Day. ‣ South Africa’s the Parlotones return to L.A. for a date […]
It’s been more than two years since Jake Bellows departed Omaha for L.A., and that solo album he mentioned was in the works back in 2011 is finally taking shape. Bellows fronted the indie-rock band Neva Dinova for three albums between 2002 and ’08 and collaborated with Conor Oberst on an EP (re-released in 2010 […]
Your spectacular Saturday: ‣ The Greek Theatre embraces nostalgia along with the start of summer with radical rock group the B-52s and pop legends Squeeze. ‣ Fool’s Gold continues the summer series in Pasadena with an outdoor show at Levitt Pavilion. ‣ It’s a stacked roster of pop at Universal City walk’s Gibson Amphitheatre with […]
