[Further musical excursions and updates on bands we recently posted on:] The Mowgli’s, “I’ve Been Around” – Quicker than you can pop a couple of Xanax, the Los Angeles septet has seemingly set its sights on Grouplove’s reign as Happiest Band Around. Their debut single “San Francisco” [see our March post] earned radio play on […]
Nine SoCal bands are playing Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin: Love, L.A.” day party next Wednesday on the first day of the South by Southwest Music Festival. It seems like 999 SoCal bands are actually headed to Austin. When we started culling music from those artists, our uploader begged for for mercy. So we called […]
It’s March already? Tonight certainly feels like it: ‣ Brooklyn-based dance-punks !!! (Chk Chk Chk) are assembling material for their first album since 2010’s “AM/FM” and doing a run of club shows to try out new songs. They visit the Echoplex tonight supported by Wild Belle. ‣ Veteran psych-rocker Roky Erickson returns for a show […]
Tic Tic Boom! haven’t looked back since they’ve found their strengths in writing dance music, and their confidence has only grown with time. Electro-pop tunes like “Bees” on last year’s “Reasons & Rhymes” sparkled with an eagerness to shimmy bodies on to the dance floor, but new songs such as “For Feeling” off their forthcoming […]
You can almost smell the perfume and sweat from the dancefloor in the electro-pop of L.A. quartet Tic Tic Boom, whose swirling synths and disco sheen recall the days of Club MTV more than the cut-and-paste indie electronica that followed. The brainchild of singer-keyboardist Leilani Francisco and guitarist-vocalist Mike DeLay (who expand to a four-piece […]
A couple of Coachella standouts and a swarm of nice local shows on tonight’s slate: ‣ Fresh off a buzz-making performance at Coachella, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding had a big day in L.A.: She does a quick bit at the Grove at 6 p.m. as part of the Nike-sponsored She Runs LA, then runs off […]
[Birthday greetings today go out to Stephin Merritt …] Calling it just another manic Monday: ‣ New Jersey punk rockers Screaming Females (that’s their video for “Wild,” above) bring their riot grrrl-inspired shredding to the Echoplex, supported by La Sera and Lovely Bad Things. ‣ Expect to hear some new songs when Great Northern plays […]
[Andy Bell of Oasis, and Ride before that, turns 39 today. Cheers, mate. And in L.A. environs …] Black Francis hits town for a pair of solo acoustic dates at the Mint, with Mere Mortals [whose new music I previewed a couple of weeks ago] opening. … Let’s see: A 60-foot giantess, a discredited scientist […]
