[Shows to consider while waiting to hear Jason Bentley interview electro-pop sensation David Lynch this morning on KCRW (10:15 a.m.):] Tonight’s top outings: ‣ Olin & the Moon, their new album “Footsteps” getting them some deserved attention, continue their residency at the Echo with fine support from Wire in the Walls and Family of the […]
[Birthday greetings today to the legendary Kim Fowley …] Top 5 reasons tonight to go forth and conquer: ‣ Does anybody else think the Dead Weather’s video for “Blue Blood Blues” is not up to the usual Jack White/Third Man Records artistic standards? Oh, and White’s little quartet plays the Hollywood Palladium tonight. ‣ Gonna […]
In 2004, Gram Rabbit unveiled a debut album “Music to Start a Cult To.” The title was prescient. Six years later, the Joshua Tree quartet indeed has a cult following – but, mystifyingly, only that. Despite having released two more albums of some of the most far-thinking, far-out psychedelic disco around, membership in the “The […]
Here’s an encouraging note for the bands around town who try and try and try some more: Leslie & the Badgers’ self-released album “Roomful of Smoke” (which we loved when it came out last year) has been picked up by Nashville-based label Thirty Tiger (home to Elizabeth Cook, Justin Townes Earle, Jim Lauderdale and Those […]
The Silverlake Jubilee arrives with a bang this weekend, the first-year music and arts festival bringing some 50 bands to a three-stage neighborhood fair featuring cutting-edge DJs, comedy, spoken word, film, art and fashion – not to mention three dozen or so food trucks to satiate attendees’ appetites. Buzz Bands LA has joined with Jubilee […]
[A slight change in our programming. Beginning today, my daily show picks will appear on the LA Weekly’s West Coast Sound blog. I will also highlight a show here, and link to the more-comprehensive West Coast Sound post. Thanks for following.] The glammy electro of Tennessee-bred trio Actress, the brainchild of brothers Aaron and Josh […]
[Happy 45th to Black Francis today. Here’s a light menu for tonight:] Should be an interesting night downtown – Corinne Bailey Rae kicks off her tour with a show at Vibiana, formerly the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana. The singer-songwriter’s sold-out show will be the first of its kind at the venue. … At Spaceland, it’s […]
[Two acts from Buzz Bands LA’s best-of-’09 list, the Features and the Big Pink, hit town on the same night. Not fair …] The last time the Features played L.A. (supporting the Whigs at the Troubadour in November), it made for one of the best rock shows I’d seen in quite some time. Tonight they […]
[Once around the residencies as I try to decide how I feel about the new Angels & Airwaves album, “LOVE,” which I downloaded free last night [background] …] Princeton, fresh off a Thursday show opening for Editors, return to the cozier confines of Spaceland, supported by Le Switch, among others. … Aushua and We Barbarians […]
This month’s heaping helping of appetizing residencies continues: At the Echo, where Useless Keys headline and Light FM supports, there’s a set from band called L.E.F. – which features members of the late Viva K, a quartet that had a good thing going about four years ago (an album on Stinky Records, some love from […]
