Thursday’s shows: ► Other Lives headline Club Bahia behind their new album “Rituals,” with Riothorse Royale supporting. ► Shlohmo [pictured] does a full-band show behind his new album “Dark Red” at the Fonda Theatre, joined by Bones, Purple and Nick Melons. ► Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding bring’s her new project “Emily’s D+Evolution” — described as a […]
Your Wednesday show options: ► Other Lives [see “Reconfiguration”] do the first of two L.A. shows behind their new album “Rituals,” this one at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ► U.K. pop songer Mika plays the Belasco Theatre, with Astronautica supporting. Above, the video for his new single “TAlk About You.” ► Great […]
Incoming: Wango Tango, Cillie Barnes, The Moth & the Flame, Freedom Fry, Golden Coast, Mesmi, Los Lobos, Kodaline, the Moody Blues, MS MR, Thee Oh Sees, Reggie Watts, Gold Star, Other Lives, Mika, Max & the Moon, Gal Pals, Gaby Moreno, Puro Instinct, Steve Poltz, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Shlohmo, Esperanza Spalding, Local H, […]
Other Lives’ “Rituals,” the follow-up to 2011’s “Tamer Animals” (Buzz Bands LA’s album of the year), comes out May 4. The core trio of Jesse Tabish, Josh Onstott and Jonathon Mooney moved to Portland from their native Oklahoma to make it, and in London-based dirctor Ollie Wolf, they found a visual collaborator for the hauntingly […]
With their transcendent 2011 album “Tamer Animals,” Oklahoma orchestral indie-rockers Other Lives placed themselves in rarefied air. Jaw-dropping both compositionally and lyrically, it’s not the kind of album that can be dashed off; indeed, the trio of Jesse Tabish (piano, guitar, vocals), Jonathon Mooney (piano, violin, guitar, percussion, trumpet) and Josh Onstott (bass, keys, percussion, […]
Oklahoma orchestral rockers Other Lives gave the El Rey Theatre a concert on Saturday night that was as close to a religious experience as a secular band could muster. Celebrating their 10-year anniversary as a band — and clearly celebratory at their burgeoning popularity— the band cast a 70-minute spell over the sold-out crowd that […]
Things to do before you “fall back”: ‣ One more weekend of costumed craziness – the craziest being at L.A. State Historic Park near downtown, where HARD Haunted Mansion brings a “Day of the Dead” lineup that features Justice, Major Lazer, Knife Party, Diplo, Jack Beats, Dillon Francis, AraabMuzik and a bunch more. ‣ Saint […]
Incoming: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Family of the Year, Voxhaul Broadcast, Bob Mould, Miike Snow, Daughter, Lamb of God, All Time Low, Kid Koala, the Donkeys, Alanis Morissette, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, R. Kelly, Mariachi El Bronx, Lord Huron, Husky, Other Lives, Woodkid, Saint Etienne, the All-American Rejects, Electric Guest, Joan Osborne, HARD Day […]
Oklahoma orchestral rockers Other Lives revealed an Atoms For Peace remix of 2011’s title track “Tamer Animals” back in July, but we finally get another robust original from their forthcoming EP “Mind the Gap” (out Oct. 23 on TBD Records). And suffice to say “Take Us Alive” is epically ambrosial as expected: Violins loop before […]
Who: Other Lives in the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: What moves me.
