School of Seven Bells announced today it would release a new album – featuring parts recorded by producer-guitarist Benjamin Curtis before his diagnosis with lymphoma and during his treatment. Curtis died on Dec. 29 at age 35. SVIIB’s Alejandra Deheza says she is working on completing the new album, the follow-up to 2012’s “Ghostory.” Meanwhile, […]
Benjamin Curtis, the guitarist who propelled the bands Secret Machines and School of Seven Bells to prominence, died Sunday night after a one-year battle with cancer, the Dallas Observer reported. He was 35.
Benjamin Curtis of School of Seven Bells has been diagnosed with lymphoma, according to a note from bandmate Alejandra Deheza posted this morning on the band’s Facebook page. Deheza writes: It feels so surreal to be writing this to you. In fact I still can’t wrap my head or my heart around it, but here […]
Random encounters of the festival kind from the fourth evening of Filter magazine’s Culture Collide in Echo Park: Highlight of the night Although this year’s Red Bull Soundstage seemed as if it had shrunk since last year’s block party, the Wombats played their set as if they were headlining a large amphitheater. The U.K. trio […]
Culture Collide, Filter magazine’s four-day tour de Echo Park, has announced set times. The third annual festival brings 60-plus artists representing 25 countries to stages big and small in the Eastside neighborhood, capped by a free block party in and around Taix French restaurant on Sunday featuring Of Montreal, the Wombats, School of Seven Bells […]
Of Montreal, Niki & the Dove, the Wombats [pictured in May at the El Rey Theatre], Icona Pop and School of Seven Bells highlight the schedule for the Culture Collide Block Party on Sunday, Oct. 7 – the big finale to Filter magazine’s four-day festival that brings 63 artists from 25 nations to Echo Park […]
Silversun Pickups’ concert on Thursday night at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was all about expectancy. The Silver Lake quartet’s fervent SoCal fanbase – seeing SSPU for the first time since its third album “Neck of the Woods” was released in May – was hungry for a characteristically explosive show. And the Pickups themselves, along with […]
Of Montreal, Junip [pictured], School of Seven Bells, Class Actress, Penguin Prison, Clinic and L.A.’s own funkmeisters Breakestra head up the first batch of acts announced for Filter Magazine’s third annual Culture Collide festival, which goes off Oct. 4-7 at various venues in Echo Park. Also notable an on tap for the event: Dean Wareham […]
Another massive night of Coachella “sandwich” shows, and some other gems: ‣ Wild Flag, the all-star quartet featuring Carrie Brownstein [pictured] and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) along with Mary Timony (Helium) and Rebecca Cole (the Minders), was one of our Week 1 Coachella highlights. They join two other artists playing the two weekends in the desert, […]
My musician friends who are ex-film school students are better qualified to weigh on the Toby Halbrooks/David Lowery video for “I L U,” but suffice to say that, for me, School of Seven Bells’ lilting vocals do just fine when it comes to ripping my heart out. The band, now absent half of its twin […]
