Happy Halloween – hope everything’s ghoul with you: ‣ Zola Jesus, the Wisconsin-bred, L.A.-based purveyor of brooding darkwave, brings her small frame and big pipes to the Echoplex as her fall tour behind the release of her debut album “Conatus” nears an end. That’s the video for her song “Vessel,” above, directed by Jacqueline Castel. […]
Midweek madness: ‣ The Smashing Pumpkins visit the Wiltern, promising to preview some material off their forthcoming album “Oceania” (due in 2012). Fancy Space People (featuring Don Bolles) and Light FM open. ‣ Blondie plays Club Nokia behind their new album “Panic of Girls,” and L.A. trio Nico Vega opens. ‣ Devotchka does a cozy show […]
Your picks for Tuesday: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe goes off with Nik Freitas, the Sister Ruby Band, Ben Heywood of Summer Darling and Adeline & the Philistines. The festivities start at 9; details here. ‣ We Are Augustines, the new project from Pela’s Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson […]
Nik Freitas, the L.A. based singer-songwriter whose new album “Saturday Night Underwater” came out in June, will headline the September edition Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park. Joining Freitas will be Marlon Rabenreither of the Sister Ruby Band and Ben Heywood of Summer Darling– each doing solo sets […]
Tonight in our little town: ‣ Three of Manimal Vinyl’s most promising artists – Sister Crayon, Jenny O and Papercranes – will be joined by Blackbird Blackbird and more at the Exchange (618 S. Spring). Details. That’s Sister Crayon’s video for “(in) Reverse,” above. ‣ John Hiatt headlines the Troubadour behind his new album “Dirty […]
Singer-guitarist Johnny Ruby was reared in Los Angeles and educated in London, and his music as the Sister Ruby Band straddles both worlds – oozing the gauzy snarl of British shoegazers and the stoned mysticism of the West Coast psych-rock elite. Last spring, the 22-year-old made some noise with an EP titled “A Shot in […]
It’s taken some of the shine off Friday’s Coachella lineup. The first North American show in 18 years by Public Image Ltd. was to have been at the big festival in the desert, but I guess there was money to be made – PiL plays tonight at downtown’s Club Nokia. I do like John Lydon […]
The Sister Ruby Band isn’t the project of anyone’s sister, and it’s not quite a band yet, for that matter; the name is just a way for 21-year-old Johnny Ruby to separate his artistic identities. The Los Angeles-reared, London-based Ruby – real name: Marlon Rabenreither – is studying the visual arts at Goldsmiths University in […]
