A bounty of excellent local shows tonight: ‣ Soft Swells celebrate the release of their self-titled album with an early show (8 p.m.) at the Hotel Cafe, where the Ruby Friedman Orchestra plays an even earlier set (7) and King Washington plays later. [See Soft Swells’ “Put It on the Line.”] ‣ The Dead Ships […]
Is there something overweight about this Tuesday? ‣ Minneapolis’ Polica, the new project from Gayngs’ Ryan Olson and singer Channy Casselle, bring their dreamy psychedelia to the Bootleg Bar, where Pollyn and the One AM Radio open. Polica just released its debut album “Give You the Ghost,” and that’s the new video for “Amongster,” above. […]
Tips for your Tuesday: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s monthly songwriter series continues at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park, topped by Chicago-bred, L.A.-based songstress Haroula Rose (pictured), freshly returned from Athens, Ga., where she was working on recording her next album. Rose figures to have some new songs, and she’ll be joined by Geronimo Getty, […]
[Thanks to Seraphina and Trina for holding down the fort while I was on vacation. Big week ahead, starting with Bill Wyman’s 75th birthday today …] Monday madness: ‣ Gold Panda, the U.K. producer whose career took off in 2010 after the release of his debut “Lucky Shiner,” visits the Echoplex. He has a mixtape […]
Mondays in L.A. are worth so much more than the price of admission. Funny how so much that I want to see tonight is residency FREE. ‣I recommend that you do some additional stretching because night #3 of Youngblood Hawke’s Satellite residency gets even more hyper as it includes my Vegas-to-L.A. transplant loves, Imagine Dragons. FREE at The […]
‣ His new album “Ashes and Fire” out on Tuesday, Ryan Adams plays the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Stream the album here. That’s the video for “Invisible Riverside,” above. ‣ Good lineup for Indians’ residency at the Silverlake Lounge – Sweden’s You Say France & I Whistle, one of the highlights of […]
It’s a full-up Friday: ‣ U2. The scrappy band from Ireland. Angel Stadium. ‣ The Wooden Birds, the latest project from American Analog Set’s Andrew Kenny, bring something of an all-star lineup to the Echo for a show in support of their new album “Two Matchsticks.” Kenny’s lineup is populated by three members of Matt […]
Acoustic pop and soft electronica go hand-in-hand these days, and if there’s a new L.A. band who has embraced this concept, it’s Mind the Gap. The duo that formerly went by Cahn & Yang (and the Driving Force before that) expanded to a quartet once founders Greg Cahn and Alex Yang moved from the Midwest […]
