Tonight in L.A.: Yo La Tengo, Dead Sara, Of Montreal, Pierce the Veil, United Ghosts, Cayucas, Rumours, Pepper, Sister Rogers, Spindrift, Caitlyn Crosby, the Technicolors, Luke Top
Get in the thick of it on this Thursday: ‣ Three decades into its career and still going strong, Yo La Tengo visits the Fonda Theatre behind their 13th album, “Fade.” ‣ Big hometown show for rock quartet Dead Sara, who’ve become road warriors since releasing their debut last year. Emily Armsrong and gang headline […]
The first song from United Ghosts, last fall’s “Holes Into the Night,” bore only traces of Madchester edginess of singer-guitarist Axel Steuerwald’s great but lamentably overlooked work in Mere Mortals. Owing to the new collaboration with singer-bassist Sha Sabi, United Ghosts conjures up the specters of the dreamier shoegazers of that era. “Unhypnotized,” a delirious […]
Happy hump day: ‣ London indie-rockers Bombay Bicycle Club take on the Fonda Theatre in support of their album “A Different Kind of Fix.” Vacationer supports. ‣ The great Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Los Lobos and Infantree all team up for a big night at the Hollywood Bowl. ‣ Brooklyn’s Exitmusic returns to their […]
Your scorching Saturday: ‣ There’s a whole lotta psych-rock going on at the Echo, Echoplex and Origami Vinyl today. The Echoes West festival brings ’60s stalwarts Strawberry Alarm Clock along with Dead Meadow, Lords of Altamont, Sleep Over, Spindrift, Sterling Roswell, Gram Rabbit, Silver Chords, Electric Flower Group, Strangers Family Band, United Ghosts and more […]
Tonight’s touts: ‣ Morrissey plays a sold-out show at the Shrine Auditorium. ‣ It’s a night for some very good shoegazer rock at the Satellite – Tennis System (that’s their video for “Arcane,” above) celebrates the release of its album “Teenagers,” with United Ghosts (marking the release of their “Holes Into the Night” 7-inch) and […]
For an unsigned, independent artist, singer-guitarist Axel Steuerwald has always been able to coax a big, radio-ready sound out of his bands’ recordings, first with Mere Mortals and now with the new quartet United Ghosts. So it goes with the new single “Holes Into the Night,” a dreamy, driving slice of neo-shoegaze rock made in […]
When he fronted the lamentably overlooked Mere Mortals, Axel Steuerwald fashioned tunes that seemed beamed across the Atlantic from Manchester and sprinkled with garage-rock fairy dust. His new quartet United Ghosts, founded with Sha Sabi, build on that approach – driving Euro dance rhythms, hazy guitar and synth textures and boy/girl vocals straight out of […]
