[Two acts from Buzz Bands LA’s best-of-’09 list, the Features and the Big Pink, hit town on the same night. Not fair …] The last time the Features played L.A. (supporting the Whigs at the Troubadour in November), it made for one of the best rock shows I’d seen in quite some time. Tonight they […]
Active Child sounds like a side project for a church’s youth choir, and that is in no way a pejorative. In fact, it’s close to the truth – New Jersey-born Pat Grossi (who moved to L.A. as a teenager and then attended college in Colorado) plied his falsetto for the Philadelphia Boys Choir, an experience, […]
I have only to glance at Stereogum’s post on the most anticipated albums of 2010 to be assured that next year will be better than 2009, when my most-visited album was the Stone Roses’ reissue. [Heartfelt thanks again to the person who gifted me that; you know who you are.] That said, ’09 had some […]
[It’s Bjork’s birthday on Saturday, celebrate appropriately. Here’s my late-arriving weekend rundown:] Tonight: Alan Palomo’s Neon Indian [pictured; download below] brings its multimedia synthscapes to the Echoplex for a night of cool electro that includes Keenhouse, Tigercity and Little Red Radio. … Julian Casablancas hits downtown’s Palace Theatre for Week 3 of his residency. … […]
The Big Pink may well be one of the next big things – the U.K. outfit’s debut album “A Brief History of Love” certainly delivers the goods – but the quartet’s L.A. debut on Wednesday night at the El Rey Theatre was less than rosy. ||| Photos by Laurie Scavo It was all smoke-and-strobes and […]
Haven’t been able to set aside “A Brief History of Love,” the debut album from U.K. electro-shoegazers the Big Pink, since it arrived in my mailbox and got me all excited. The collaboration of producer Milo Cordell and guitarist Robbie Furze, the Big Pink expands to a full band for live shows, and they finally […]
