Incoming: The Ting Tings, Mates of State, Wolf Alice, Holychild, Wildling, the Fontaines, Hotel Hot Burrito, Ivory Deville, the Vaselines, Mini Mansions, Eric McFadden, Paul Bergmann, the Entrance Band, Blackbird Blackbird, Wale, We Are Scientists, the Hood Internet, Patti Smith, Sam Smith, Body/Head, the Warlocks, Crash Kings, the Haden Triplets, Brooke Fraser, Susanna Hoffs, Magic […]
Let’s call the new single from L.A. trio Mini Mansions insurrectionist new wave – “Death Is a Girl” treats the ’80s as the distant memory they are rather than the here and now. A little bit dark, a little bit psychedelic and plenty propulsive, the song is the first taste of Mini Mansions’ much-anticipated sophomore […]
News from far and wide … ‣ OK Go has been added to the lineup for the free Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier; the poptastic video wizards will play Sept. 4, along with Allah-Las. Find the full lineup here. ‣ Mini Mansions are now signed to Capitol Records and in Dallas recording […]
[Guest contributor Nina Bhadreshwar gives us a U.K. perspective on Arctic Monkeys’ show Tuesday at the Wiltern:] By Nina Bhadreshwar It’s the last of their California dates at the Wiltern Theatre, a venue much the same size and layout as Manchester’s Apollo only with a giant balcony. Tonight it’s full of young teenagers of every […]
Super Sunday things: ‣ It’s a been a good week for Medicine fans. The legendary L.A. shoegazers just released a new album titled ” To the Happy Few” – their first full-band record in 20 years – via Captured Tracks, and now they return to the stage at the Echo tonight for Part Time Punks. […]
Your scorching Saturday: ‣ There’s a whole lotta psych-rock going on at the Echo, Echoplex and Origami Vinyl today. The Echoes West festival brings ’60s stalwarts Strawberry Alarm Clock along with Dead Meadow, Lords of Altamont, Sleep Over, Spindrift, Sterling Roswell, Gram Rabbit, Silver Chords, Electric Flower Group, Strangers Family Band, United Ghosts and more […]
A super Saturday to warm up for your Super Sunday: ‣ Has it been almost two years since Haim rocked a Buzz Bands LA show at the Echo? Time flies. Between other musical endeavors, the young L.A. quartet of sisters Danielle, Alana and Este Haim and Tim Carr has been working on new music. Haim […]
Heard on the street, jotted in my notebook: ‣ Word on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake is that L.A.-based Evan Voytas, whose fuzzy pop is equal parts synth, soul and space, will be releasing an EP in October on Dovecote Records, home to Hooray for Earth and Wise Blood, among others. Voytas recently returned from […]
Our picks on a light show night: ‣ Singer-songwriter Kevin Earnest celebrates the release of his new album “You Feel Like Home” with a show at the Hotel Cafe, where Anna Nalick and Lindsay Rae Spurlock also play. That’s Earnest’s video for “Stuck in the Way,” above. ‣ Singer-songwriter and purveyor of downtempo dream-pop Shannon […]
Your pre-Carmageddon options: ‣ Talk to the animals? How about singing to them? Hands (pictured) and Abe Vigoda head up an eight-band lineup tonight for Music in the Zoo: Local Scene Night at the L.A. Zoo. The show is something of an open house-meets-picnic at the zoo, with the evening featuring two bands apiece on […]
