Running you ragged on a Thursday: ‣ U.K. dance rockers Crystal Fighters bring the party to Fonda Theatre in support of their sophomore album “Cave Rave,” with L.A.’s White Arrows supporting. That’s Crystal Fighters’ video for “LA Calling,” above. ‣ Oh Land – the nom de tune of Danish pop singer Nanna Øland Fabricius – […]
Incoming: Animal Collective, Best Coast, Surfer Blood, Laura Marling, Twin Forks, Gossling, Phantogram, AFI, James Blake, STRFKR, Real Estate, Au Revoir Simone, Jenny Lewis, Leagues, Hunx & His Punx, Katy Perry, Tricky, Sanglorians, Spindrift, the Sounds, Mark Knopfler, Crystal Fighters, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Radical Face, J. Cole, NONONO, Streetlight Manifesto, Holly Conlan, Hanni El […]
In 2011, I saw more than 500 bands perform live over 265-plus days of show-going, and still I feel as if I missed a lot. Plenty of what I did see remains etched in my memory, though, from festival adventures big and small (SXSW, Coachella and FYF to the Silverlake Jubilee, the substitute Sunset Junction […]
Happy Tuesday: ‣ Radical Face, the nom de tune of Florida’s Ben Cooper, plays the Bootleg Theater behind his rapturous new album “The Family Tree: The Roots.” He’ll be backed by the Easterly Singers Choir, and Walking Sleep will open. [See Radical Face’s “A Pound of Flesh” video.] ‣ The soulful Chris Pierce celebrates the […]
Ben Cooper, who does business as Radical Face, crafts songs that are somehow more than just words and melody. They have presence, a mystical quality that suggests they are more the sum of their parts. The Jacksonville, Fla., songwriter’s new album “The Family Tree: The Roots” (out this week), based on a strange, fictitious family […]
Last week’s installment of Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park proved to be a special affair – four artists pouring out a wide range of music to our biggest crowd yet for the series. Radical Face (aka Florida’s Ben Cooper) played some of the character-rich folk from his […]
‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot Cafe features Radical Face, Cerise, Paulie Pesh and Alanna Lin of Fascinoma. Details here. ‣ Deerhunter visits the Wiltern. ‣ Allah hLas’ residency at the Echo continues with Farmer Dave Scher, the Tyde and Tomorrow’s Tulips supporting. ‣ And Wet & Reckless return to the Satellite. […]
Radical Face, the nom de tune of Florida’s Ben Cooper [see last week’s post], will cap Buzz Bands LA’s monthly SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe tomorrow with an acoustic set. Coming off Saturday’s impressive performance at the 2nd New L.A. Folk Fesival, Radical Face will preview material from his forthcoming album “The Family […]
As one-half of the Morr Music duo Electric President, Ben Cooper traded in the kind of electro-pop melancholy that made the spines of Postal Service fans tingle. But his diet is more organic when he works alone as Radical Face, whose rapturous folk music is as stirring as it is conceptual. His 2007 album “Ghost” […]
