The public art installation “Play Me, I’m Yours” – which featured 30 whimsically decorated pianos deposited in various high-traffic locales around Los Angeles – was celebrated Thursday night with a pop-up show at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. “Pianos Live” boasted a lineup of about a dozen artists performing songs in the courtyard space. Many […]
Did you score any new music on Record Store Day? Echo Park shop Origami Vinyl made it a little easier on music fans’ budget, hosting an all-day free show at the Echo with a top-drawer crew of local bands playing along with Wisconsin’s All Tiny Creatures and Zammuto, the new project from Books’ Nick Zammuto. […]
If you saw the video for their single “Big Broom,” you figured there might be balloons at Races’ album-release party. The L.A. sextet did not disappoint Friday night at the Echo. To mark last week’s release of their debut album “Year of the Witch” on Frenchkiss Records, the collective of Wade Ryff, Garth Herberg, Devon […]
Your Friday Fixings: ‣ Races celebrate the release of their debut album “Year of the Witch,” which just dropped this week on Frenchkiss Records, at the Echo. Living Things and Incan Abraham join the party. ‣ Ghostly International’s star and avant-pop artist Matthew Dear headlines tonight’s installment of First Fridays (a week earlier than usual) […]
[Our look at the week ahead, starting with Nicolas Jaar, playing Monday, and his video for “Mi Mujer”:] Incoming: Nicolas Jaar, NO, Voxhaul Broadcast, the Henry Clay People, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Harriet, White Arrows, White Rabbits, Matthew Dear, Races, Kathleen Edwards, the Wedding Present and more. Our staff picks of the week: […]
So what’s your flavor, South by Southwest? Because these southern California bands are doing battle to get their music on your plates. On Friday we posted a 44-song mixtape featuring SoCal bands performing at SXSW, and frankly that wasn’t enough. Buzz Bands LA, of course, has nine bands who tickle our fancy playing our “Dear […]
Nine SoCal bands are playing Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin: Love, L.A.” day party next Wednesday on the first day of the South by Southwest Music Festival. It seems like 999 SoCal bands are actually headed to Austin. When we started culling music from those artists, our uploader begged for for mercy. So we called […]
Races is all about esprit de corps – or maybe it’s esprit de chords in this case. The L.A. sextet dispenses uplifting songs for treacherous times, and their we’re-all-in-this-together attitude can make even the harshest deceit seem like a dot on the emotional landscape. So it is with their florid ballad-turned-guitar jam “Lies,” with lush […]
[Recent remixes that have come across our radar. They may help bring the weekend faster…] Active Child, “Johnny Belinda (White Arrows Remix)” – L.A. electro rockers White Arrows give the last track on Active Child’s “You Are All I See” a little boost by dropping a beat and adding shiny synth riffs, slightly changing it […]
Races began as Wade Ryff’s attempt at putting his solo material out there, but as the group added members, changed band names (from Black Jesus) and picked up steam – leading to their signing with Frenchkiss Records – it’s hard to imagine their music was originally planned for a one-man band. Ryff, Garth Herberg, Oliver […]
