The guitarlicious five-piece Vanaprasta has been on our short list of L.A. indie rockers to watch for about a year, and this month’s release of its “Forming the Shapes” EP did nothing to make our interest wane. Now the quintet has recorded a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” – a track that was […]
[Elliott Smith would have been 40 years old today. I think I will spend a meditative hour with “XO” this afternoon …] John Doe and the Sadies bring their collaboration to the Echoplex tonight behind “Country Club,” a new album of country covers (plus three Sadies’ compositions and one by Doe and Exene Cervenka). Jill […]
[Birthday cheers to Fran Healy of Travis. And speaking of cheers, it’s hard to go wrong if you go out tonight:] The free “Also I Like to Rock” series winds up its run at the Hammer Museum with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros playing from their recently released album of ’60s-styled anthems, “Up From […]
The show calendar overfloweth: The Dead Weather’s gnarly blues-rock sounds exactly like what you’d expect, considering the players in the side project – Jack White (White Stripes), Alison Mosshart (the Kills), Jack Lawrence (the Raconteurs) and Dean Fertita. [Stream: “Treat Me Like Your Mother.”] Their debut, “Horehound,” is out July 14, and quartet makes its […]
[Happy birthday to Fabrizio Moretti of the Strokes, all of 29 years old today. His side project, Little Joy, will be in town later this week – Thursday at the Detroit Bar and Friday at the Troubadour. Now, on to tonight …] How difficult is it to support good local bands in L.A.? Damned hard […]
||| Download: “Buzzsicle 3” I originally created Buzzsicle 3 for a special promotion, and … well, it’s a long story, but I never posted it until now. It’s an hour’s worth of music featuring 15 songs by L.A. artists Red Cortez, Spider Problem, the Yelling, Greyboy, the Gray Kid, Keenhouse, NightWaves, Shiloe, Robotanists, His Orchestra, […]
It’s not exactly a revelation to think of the music by new L.A. quartet Robotanists as “cinematic” — the previous project in which husband-and-wife principals Sarah Ellquist and Daniel de Blanke were involved, Loma Lynda, was a multimedia collective (including filmmaker Jason Bognacki) that fused movies and rock. “It was exhausting,” Ellquist says. “So many […]
