Confessor, dreamer, lover, screamer, joker, schemer – Meg Myers has been all those things on her releases dating back to her first “Daughter in the Choir” EP two years ago. In sum, the Tennessee native and former Jehovah’s Witness has posited herself as someone not to be trifled with, even in her vulnerable moments. Which […]
Thanks for the good times, 2013. Now on to the hottest prospects for 2014. Last year’s Bands to Watch cited more than 20 Los Angeles acts who were already signed and ready to release full-lengths. Most of them did – although the vagaries of the record business and the occasional pratfalls of the creative process […]
Pretty soon Meg Myers is not going to have any veins left to open. “Desire,” the new single from the L.A.-based singer-songwriter, is another in a line of bloodletters from the one-time Tennesseean, who announced this week that her first EP for Atlantic Records would be out in early 2014. “Desire” features a solo from […]
Your Monday menu: ‣ Pixies begin their four-night stint in L.A. with the first of three nights at the El Rey Theatre, with Meg Myers as support. ‣ Austra stop by the Echoplex in support of their latest album “Olympia.” Diana and Telepathe open. ‣ And downstairs, Tobacco headlines the Echo. Zackey Force Funk also […]
Incoming: Pixies, Meg Myers, Together Pangea, Austra, Ariana Grande, OneRepublic, Minus the Bear, MGMT, Julia Holter, the Mission UK, AFI, Boz Scaggs, ON AN ON, Meiko, St. Lucia, the Zombies, Jonathan Rice, Jimmy Cliff, Dave Stewart, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Body/Head, Titus Andronicus, AlunaGeorge, the Jacksons, Local Natives, Jose James, Morgan Page, Matt Wertz, Alice in […]
Tuesday’s menu: ‣ Nine Inch Nails play a sold-out Troubadour for only raffle-winners in support of their latest album “Hesitation Mark.” That’s their David Lynch-directed video for “Came Back Haunted” above. (Please heed its warning at the beginning.) ‣ Blonde Redhead headlines the El Rey Theatre with the Mast as support. ‣ Black Sabbath take […]
Incoming: NIN, The Bangles, Berlin, Bootleg’s Summer Send-Off, Sun Rai, Katie Costello, Blonde Redhead, Black Sabbath, Fun., Tegan & Sara, Meg Myers, Carly Ritter, Superchunk, Youth Code, Backstreet Boys, Gary Numan, John Hiatt, Gardens & Villa, Eve, Anticon 15-Year Anniversary, Dwight Yoakam, Gold Fields, Los Lobos, Desert Stars Festival, Javier Dunn, ZZ Ward, Vintage Trouble, […]
Your Thursday show highlights: ‣ Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers do the third of their six nights at at the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Big night for Capital Cities – behind their debut album “In a Tidal Wave of Mystery,” they appear on “Conan” tonight and headline the sold-out El Rey Theatre, with Gold Fields and […]
Incoming: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, the Olms, Lenka, Crystal Fighters, Willy Moon, Big Black Delta, KING, Bjork, Jewel, Parquet Courts, Mihael Paskalev, Ron Sexsmith, Capital Cities, Meg Myers, Ceremony, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, the Black Lips, Trash Talk, the Virgins, Generationals, the Boxer Rebellion, Iggy & the Stooges, Rocket From the Crypt, the Drums, […]
On her “Daughter in the Choir” EP, as well as the first single she released after signing to Atlantic, Meg Myers exhibited a feral intensity, whether she was venting in a straight-ahead rock song or in her producer Doctor Rosen Rosen’s electro-addled world. Her new song “Cold,” however, takes Myers back to her singer-songwriter […]
