During the agonizingly long gestation period of Marvelous Toy’s debut album, singer-keyboardist-guitarist Jordan Hudock played a million shows, lent his talents for a time to the Henry Clay People and earned reputation for his apoplectic ways at the piano. In fact, he never met a keyboard he couldn’t go all Jerry Lee Lewis on. Much […]
This installment of our intermittent mixtapes, The Buzzsicle, Vol. 13, is devoted to the weekend’s second annual Silverlake Jubilee, which gives you a lot of bang for 5 bucks. I’ve compiled an hour’s worth of music from 18 of the artists playing the festival. Enjoy. ||| Download: The Buzzsicle 13 (84 MB) After the jump, […]
A short list of local show touts for L.A. tonight, while we are still away in Austin: ‣ Roots-rockers Truth & Salvage Co. headline the Troubadour. ‣ Torches In Trees and Marvelous Toy team up at the Echo. ‣ And the 88 holds forth at the Hotel Cafe. For more listings, visit You Set the […]
[Happy birthday to U.K. songstress Laura Marling, all of 21 years old today …] Tonight, a tip for every taste: ‣ Louisville electro-pop outfit the Pass (that’s their video for “Walk Away”) plays the Satellite, with locals Marvelous Toy and Airlines opening. ‣ Nashville singer-songwriter Tristen headlines the Echo, supported by Hi Ho Silver Oh […]
[So your humble blogger had planned to take this week off, but no … too much going on … even tonight … which, by the way, is Evan Way’s birthday, so here’s a shout-out to the head Parson Red Head up in Portland … ] Top local outing to warm you up for New Year’s […]
[A hearty happy birthday to Beth Orton …] Tonight’s top 3 outings: ‣ Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala [who made a good impression on a June visit to L.A.] play to a sold-out Echoplex. ‣ Rain Phoenix of Papercranes, whose second album “Let’s Make Babies in the Woods” is due Jan. 24 on Manimal Vinyl, will […]
Dig this: New York City four-piece the Dig – not to be confused with old ’90s faves Dig – named their band in honor of the movie “Dig,” the Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols documentary. (I know, that’s a lot of Digs in one sentence.) The Dig’s sometimes-atmospheric, always-hooky indie-rock only has a little bit in […]
The restlessness of indie rock and the ethereality of Latin pop. Spanish and English. Jacqueline Santillan and Matthew Beighley. They are marriages that work on “Luces Del Sur,” the second album from L.A. quartet Wait. Think. Fast. Now about that pesky punctuation in the band’s name … “It’s not wait-think-fast,” says Santillan, explaining the derivation, […]
Over the past few years, the Henry Clay People have progressed from party animals to scene stars to the rare band capable of making classic rock sound fresh and relevant. Their third album, “Somewhere on the Golden Coast,” comes out Tuesday on TBD Records (home to Radiohead and Autolux, among others), and any Silver Laker […]
L.A. indie rockers Radars to the Sky have been at work on a new album with producer David Newton (who’s worked with the Little Ones, the Happy Hollows and the Blood Arm, among others), but they’re not messing with the formula that made them Eastside favorites: stabbing guitars underpinned by big rhythms and synth flourishes, […]
