Your Tuesday show shortlist: ‣ Tenlons Fort plays its first L.A. show in more than a year tonight when Jack Gibson (pictured in spring 2010 at the Silverlake Jubilee) and friends headline Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park. The Sweet Hurt, CMG & We Are the Night and […]
Tenlons Fort, the vehicle for the meditative songwriting of Jack Gibson, will play their first Los Angeles show in more than a year when the band headlines Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night on July 12 at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park. Tenlons Fort will be joined by the Sweet Hurt, CMG & We […]
It’s an embarrassment of riches on the show scene tonight: ‣ Oh, the memories: Lou Barlow has assembled a version of Sebadoh (with Jason Lowenstein and Fiery Furnances Bob D’Amico) for the “Bakesale/Harmacy Remembering Time Tour,” marking the re-releases of the 1994 and 1996 albums, respectively. They hit the Troubadour tonight, with Quasi opening. ‣ […]
Top 5 shows on a very good night for local music: ‣ It’s officially the release date for Olin & the Moon’s new album “Footsteps” – the L.A. quintet (augmented by string players) is celebrating with a Tuesday residency this month at the Echo, where tonight Coyol and Paulie Pesh support. ‣ Willoughby, with Henry […]
[Why, hello, 2011. Nice to make your acquaintance. Birthday greetings go out today to the incomparable Van Dyke Parks …] Top shows tonight while waiting breathlessly for Best Coast’s late-night television debut (“Jimmy Fallon,” NBC): ‣ Buzzing indie-pop quintet Grouplove [pictured] kicks off a residency at the Bootleg Theater, supported by Guards, the latest project […]
Gus Seyffert is one of those magical players that seems to matriculate to the good stuff. He’s made a fine album as Willoughby, played alongside excellent local artists such as the Bird and the Bee, Mike Andrews, Charlie Wadhams and the Sweet Hurt, produced a slew of others and has an imprint of his own, […]
After his two- (and sometimes four-) piece the Voyeurs went quietly into the night, singer-keyboardist Jonathan Hylander embarked on a solo project that would be come to known as Honey Loving Cells. He released a song per week this summer, culminating in this debut EP – and also collaborated with Wendy Wang (the Sweet Hurt) […]
The Californian of singer-guitarist John Graney isn’t the buff, happy-go-lucky dude you see pictured on the postcard with swimsuit models. He’s desperate, and maybe a little it shadowy, and – judging by the straight-out-of-a-chase-scene guitar lines that open the title track of his “Sea of Love” EP – probably on the run from something. His […]
Raymond Richards has been something of a two-headed beast the past few years, his burgeoning duties as an up-and-coming producer at his humble garage studio forcing his singer-songwriter side to the back burner. But now Richards (whose Red Rockets Glare Studio has birthed albums by Local Natives, the Broken West and Ferraby Lionheart, among others) […]
[Notebook entries, once sentence apiece …] Wolfmother [visit the site to sign up for the download of the new single “Back Round”] sure was great a couple Fridays ago in the Natural History Museum’s Mammals Hall (imagine that), but I was surprised that the set started and ran so late, since the museum’s First Fridays […]
