Morgan Kibby rocketed onto the pop radar as the keyboardist/singer for M83 who co-wrote four of the songs on the French band’s 2008 album “Saturdays = Youth.” [She also very kindly contributed the first tour diary for this very blog.] With M83 on a break from touring and Anthony Gonzalez working on new music, Kibby […]
I’m not sure whether it’s more a 2003 dance-punk blowout, a tribute to influential 1990s artists or a nod to hipster flavors of the minute, but the lineup for this year’s FYF Fest was announced today. The one-day affair, Saturday, Sept. 4, at Los Angeles State Historic Park downtown, features dance-music faves the Rapture and […]
[File under: Too cute to resist:] Indie-rock fans are getting younger all the time – School of Seven Bells’ 2007 single “My Cabal” inspired this video treatment by third-graders at the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks. SVIIB liked it so much, the band posted it on its website. The students star, but the clip also […]
School of Seven Bells‘ performance on Wednesday night at the jam-packed Echo wasn’t so much a show as it was a seance. The band – guitarist Benjamin Curtis and twin sirens Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, newly expanded to a quartet with the addition of a live drummer – conjured up the ghosts of the Cocteau […]
A year and a half ago, fuzz-pop trio School of Seven Bells released “Alpinisms” and asked listeners to climb the hazy heights with them. Which we were happy to. Now Benjamin Curtis, the guitarist in the identical twin sandwich of Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, is back, having produced a sophomore album “Disconnect From Desire” (due […]
[Fabrizio Moretti hits the big three-oh today. Drinks at the Little Joy?] Top 5 ways to get through your humpday: ‣ Born-again indie band Hot Hot Heat (that’s the video for “21@12,” above) kicks off its residency at the Bootleg Theater, with up-and-coming pop fanatics Chasing Kings and swoonworthy Stone Darling opening. ‣ School of […]
[It’s Colin Meloy’s birthday, so we send best wishes to him as we dive headlong into a new week …] Three excellent residencies start in Silver Lake/Echo Park environs, all featuring artists whose albums I have touted in this space. Jonneine Zapata [album, tour diary], fresh off the road with Soulsavers, does Mondays this month […]
[Birthday shouts to Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Tim Burgess of the Charlatans …] Today: Where to start this evening’s bulging schedule except with Animal Collective? Having hit the Troubadour and the Music Box @ Fonda earlier in the year, the critical darlings now sell out the Wiltern. … The buzziest shows of the night […]
Looks like a video to me, anyway, but Tori Amos is calling this a “visualette.” The deluxe edition of Amos’ new album, “Abnormally Attracted to Sin” (due Tuesday), has a DVD of visualettes videos that, according to the press release, are “interlocking episodic films bring to life the narrative arc of the album.” This episode […]
[Some Very Bad Person made off with Morgan Kibby’s digital camera at the recent Los Angeles show. So instead of her behind-the-scenes photographs, the shot below is one of our indefatigable M83 tour diarist during the show. Meanwhile, if you have any information about that camera …] Chapter 19: Ending our American tour in Los […]
