Joe Purdy makes it sound so easy. The Arkansas-bred, L.A.-based songwriter, who released a dozen albums between 2001 and 2010, has built a grassroots legion of fans attracted to his plainspoken, evocative folk music, which is about as pure as it gets. Purdy’s calling card is his “voice” – wry, world-weary and guardedly optimistic all […]
A little rock, a lot of roar: ‣ It’s a hometown party tonight at the Roxy for dance-punks Funeral Party (pictured), whose debut “Golden Age of Knowhere” came out back in January. They will be joined by Nashville quartet Mona, whose self-titled debut came out in September. [Buzz Bands LA will be DJing the proceedings.] […]
Wednesday’s show offerings: ‣ Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman visits the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever behind his new EP for Secretly Canadian, “An Argument With Myself.” ||| Download: “An Argument With Myself” [audio:http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/argument.mp3] ‣ It’s be a night of fun electro at the Bootleg Theater, where Neon Indian and Com Truise perform. That’s the video […]
When I talked to Joe Purdy in 2006 at his rental home in Glendale*, I thought I’d never met a songwriter so at peace with being just a guy with a guitar. Purdy had spent some six years making his poignant, heartfelt folk songs and building a big following at Molly Malone’s and then in […]
[Here’s where it starts to get busy, folks …] For my money, there is no better punk-rock outfit doing business the past few years than Florida’s Against Me!, who remain the only band to have slayed me at both Coachella and the Warped Tour. The quintet just finished a new album, “White Crosses,” with producer […]
[Random news items from my inbox …] Friends are rallying en masse in support of Peter Case, the L.A. icon who underwent emergency open-heart surgery on Jan. 15. A fund, Hidden Love, has been set up to help defray the medical expenses of the former Plimsouls frontman, 55, who had no health insurance and is […]
