Something about the letter “H” today: ‣ Hot As Sun’s debut album “Night Time Sound Desire” is out this week on Last Gang Records, and tonight the band [pictured] hosts the second of its “Sweaty Disco” nights” at Los Globos, syupported by TV Girl and Mirror Talk. ‣ Hunter Hunted wraps up its residency at […]
How many drummers does it take to make a rock video? Loads, if you’re Nico Vega. The L.A. rockers enlisted the help of roomful of skins-pounders to make the video for “Beast,” a song that originally appeared on their 2009 album but was granted a second life owing to its use in a video game […]
When we shared the title track of Nico Vega’s forthcoming album “We Are the Art” in late October, we thought the next bulletin to come from the electrifying L.A. quartet would be details of the release – which had been delayed due to singer Aja Volkman’s pregnancy. Not so fast. This week Nico Vega announced […]
Nico Vega siren Aja Volkman is a mom now, and at some point next year she’ll likely begin to juggle motherhood with being a rocker, when the L.A. trio’s long-awaited, eagerly anticipated second album comes out. To tide fans over, Volkman, guitarist Rich Koehler and drummer Daniel Epand today released a video for the synth-spiked […]
Another massive night of Coachella “sandwich” shows, and some other gems: ‣ Wild Flag, the all-star quartet featuring Carrie Brownstein [pictured] and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) along with Mary Timony (Helium) and Rebecca Cole (the Minders), was one of our Week 1 Coachella highlights. They join two other artists playing the two weekends in the desert, […]
Much ado about Monday: ‣ Garbage, its new album “Not Your Kind of People” due May 15, play the first of two sold-out nights at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ Nico Vega (pictured), now a foursome and with news of a new album coming soon (we hope) play It’s a School Night at Bardot, along […]
And then there was Saturday: ‣ Two bands with highly anticipated albums on the way – Magic Wands (pictured) and Gliss – team up with Sabrosa Purr and Harper Blynn at the benefit show for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s SXSW efforts at the Satellite. Magic Wands’ “Aloha Moon” is en route April 24, and […]
More than two dozen Los Angeles bands (not to mention worker bees from all tentacles of the music industry) will converge on San Diego next weekend for the San Diego Music Thing, a mini-South by Southwest that offers two-plus days of club shows and workshops. Highlights include sets by Linda Perry’s Deep Dark Robot and […]
Oh, Sunset Strip, you conflict me so. On one hand you are an interactive museum of rock clichés, Madame Tussauds with a pulse and a Flying V, a vast portion of your denizens seeking to inhabit the tattooed skin of GnR/Jane’s/Van Halen. On the other you inspire a certain sense of wonderment, because the fabric […]
[So it’s “Mötley Crüe Day” in West Hollywood today as the Sunset Strip Music Festival begins in earnest tonight with a tribute to the hard rockers at the House of Blues. Don’t know whether to bring an autograph book to the red carpet or a taser.] It’s a too-many-damn-shows Thursday. Top recommendations: ‣ L.A. roots-rock […]
