All free, and all fun: ‣ Electro-pop trio Wildcat! Wildcat! continues its residency at the Echo, where Buzz Bands LA hosts the evening (and DJs) and NO, Rio Bravo and the Union Line support. ‣ Meg Myers rockets into the third week of her residency (also presented by Buzz Bands LA) at the Bootleg Bar […]
Way too much for a Monday: ‣ The Kills come back around behind last year’s album “Blood Pressures,” but the duo of Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have another kind of release on the way too – a hardcover photo book titled “Dream and Drive” by band documentarian Kenneth Cappello, who culled the selections from […]
[Things to ponder before you try to score those Green Day tickets at 10 a.m. …] First Monday in August, what fun: ‣ Meg Myers [pictured] kicks off her August residency at the Bootleg Bar. The local rocker won a lot of fans almost immediately with her “Daughter in the Choir” EP [and songs like […]
Denizens of Echo Park, beware. Meg Myers has had enough of you. Her single “Tennessee” oozes with contempt for your self-congratulatory poses, so the L.A. songstress, a native of the Volunteer State, has taken it one step further. Paired up with her producer/co-writer Doctor Rosen Rosen and armed with Nerf weapons, Myers goes on a […]
In the the trickle songs of she’s released so far, Meg Myers has revealed herself as a rocker grrl (“Poison”), strong-willed confrontationalist (“Monster”) and dreamy romantic (“After You”). But it’s her day job as a waitress in a restaurant with hipster clientele that informs the gut-busting track “Tennessee,” featuring her producer and collaborator Doctor Rosen […]
There was a certain emotional veracity exuded by songstresses from the ’90s that has been diluted in (most) artists of the generations that followed. The suffocating effects of postmodernism? The bitch-slap immediacy of the Internet age? Maybe one of our learned essayists can do a think piece. Or maybe it’s just me. Anyway, something about […]
