Patrick Park’s third album “Come What Will” arrives in April, and the L.A. singer-songwriter previews some of it tonight; he’ll be backed by a full band at the Hotel Cafe, where Spring Summer opens. … San Francisco quartet Lovelikefire, which has played a lot in L.A. the past few years, visits the Silverlake Lounge behind […]
Spring Summer is the nom de tune of L.A. songstress Jennifer Furches, whose lovingly orchestrated pop hits the same sweet spot where the likes of Natalie Merchant and the Sundays dwell. Furches is working in the right circles – the debut album features contributions from Patrick Park, Dustin O’Halloran and Robert Schwartzman, among others, and […]
[Happy birthday to Jimmy Chamberlin, wherever he’s drumming …] Toronto’s Constantines [pictured], now in their 10th year (yes, it’s true), hit town for a show at the Echo with a couple of lively supporting acts – Long Beach’s Crystal Antlers, with whom you are probably familiar, and Norwegian psych-poppers I Was a King, with whom […]
It was hard not to completely swoon last spring, when I heard the fresh-out-of-the-studio recordings of Sara Lov’s album “Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming.” The Devics frontwoman — like her collaborator, pianist Dustin O’Halloran — had gone solo, crafting a batch of languorous pop that retains the cumulus quality of Devics but harbors the lightning-bolt intensity […]
