Road trip, anyone? Titus Andronicus, Milo Greene, Wild Nothing, Ra Ra Riot, the Features, Caveman and Pictureplane are among the featured performers in conjunction with the sixth annual San Diego Music Thing, a mini-South by Southwest-styled music conference held in the North Park district of San Diego. The festival runs Sept. 13-14, with New Politics […]
Jonathan Bates’ Big Black Delta, hard-rock quartet Dead Sara and ska-punk veterans the English Beat head up the lineup for the Port of Angeles Lobster Festival, which this year again brings a strong lineup of local bands to Ports O’ Call Village in San Pedro. The three-day festival runs Sept. 13, 14 and 15. Also […]
Happy Memorial Day, y’all… ‣ UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival continues today with Ziggy Marley, Barrington Levy, Mr. Vegas, Marcia Griffiths, Kes the Band and more at UCLA Intramural Field. ‣ This week’s It’s a School Night installment at Bardot features Mystery Skulls, Mars Argo, Gothic Tropic and Emika. ‣ And your local residencies on this […]
Let’s get the week started right, shall we? ‣ Buzz Bands LA presents tonight’s installment of the Criminal Hygiene residency at the Bootleg Bar, where Moses Campbell, Dirt Dress and the Cigarette Bums support (and Liv Marsico does a DJ set). ‣Â Serena Ryder, the Toronto-based singer behind hit “Stompa” and whose album “Harmony” is […]
First Monday in May: ‣ Canadian rockers Born Ruffians, touring behind their third album (and first for Yep Roc) “Birthmarks” [“Needle” will get your day started right], play a sold-out show at the Troubadour, supported by Moon King and Avid Dancer. ‣ Hunter Hunted head up a big bill at It’s a School Night at […]
Music videos from Torches have always had a dark undertone, but everything from the creepy “Dirt & Tears” video to the morbid “I Want Something” clip have piqued our interest enough to watch them all the way through to the end. In their new Ron Santarsiero-directed visual accompaniment to their latest single “When You Gonna?” things […]
Indie-rock trio Torches is rebounding from a 2012 that can be characterized in a lot of ways – let’s just call it adventurous. They followed up two EPs released under the name Torches in Trees by unveiling their fine debut album “Heads Full of Rust.” They played a zillion gigs. And as the year closed, […]
“I want something with a feeling,” Torches frontman Azad Cheikosman proclaims in the trio’s single “I Want Something,” but as the Mike James-directed video for the song suggests, maybe he just wants something with more blood. Bandmates Eric Fabbro and Bridgette Moody get the short end of Cheikosman’s morbid fantasies in the clip. There’s bloodletting […]
The first single off Torches’ debut album “Heads Full of Rust” sounds like a mantra as much as anything: “I Want Something.” It’s clear from the first propulsive beat that the L.A. trio of guitarist Azad Cheikosman, bassist Bridgette Moody and drummer Eric Fabbro aren’t settling for the hazy psychedelia of the two EPs they […]
