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After spending 2016 retooling, indie-pop sextet Wartime Recitals will return this year with the new album “Omakase.”

After spending 2016 retooling, indie-pop sextet Wartime Recitals will return this year with the new album “Omakase.”
Los Angeles chamber-pop quintet Wartime Recitals have premiered a new video for their track “Bad Dances.” Directed by Hunter Peterson and starring Scott Drennan and Jenny Verrochi, the video was filmed along the California coastline and in the Mojave Desert — a perfect backdrop for the band’s summertime harmonies and earnest baroque indie-ness. We […]
EPs can be funny little beasts. They often serve as kind of a hi-how-ya-doin’ introduction rather than a broad artist’s statement – a handful of songs, a particular single, maybe a remix or three, a taste of what is to come. They vary so much in breadth they are difficult to review. So the Buzz […]
Happy pre-turkey Monday: ‣ Mega-pop star Justin Timberlake headlines the Forum. ‣ Minus the Bear, who recently released their latest album “Love Loves” on Dangerbird, plays the Troubadour with Plague Vendor as support. ‣ Common stops by the House of Blues on Sunset Strip. Jay Electronica opens. ‣ Grunge rap artist Jez Dior celebrates the […]
Incoming: Justin Timberlake, Fleetwood Mac, OFF!, Minus the Bear, Common, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Chris Isaak, A$ap Mob, Jez Dior, Wartime Recitals, Bob Dorough, The Diamond Light, Dorothy, Dreaming Bull, Mirel Wagner, Riff Raff, L.A. Witch, Peter Hook & the Light, Netsky and Kove, Mr. Little Jeans, Erik Hassle, Mr. Gnome, PrincessFrank, Tien, Vandelay, Foxing, […]
Monday comes ’round again: ‣ Bay Area quartet Deerhoof headlines the Troubadour behind their new album “La Isla Bonita” on a night that features the rebooted, re-calibrated Crystal Skulls along with Go Dark. ‣ Sweden’s Dirty Loops visit the Fonda Theatre behind their recent album “Loopified.” ‣ Brooklyn Pets celebrate the release of their first […]
Incoming: Deerhoof, Dirty Loops, Dorothy, Wartime Recitals, Brooklyn Pets, Smallpools, Tegan and Sara, Real Estate, Hoodie Allen, Goapele, Sam Outlaw, X Ambassadors, Culture Club, the 1975, Mr. Little Jeans, the Weeks, Bell Gardens, Cold Specks, Rhett Miller, Bastille, Sky Ferreira, Capital Cities, James Vincent McMorrow, Future Islands, Alexz Johnson, Cold War Kids, Gruff Rhys, Death […]
Your Monday menu of shows looks pretty mouth-watering: ‣ Jamie Scott, the British singer-songwriter and producer whom we knew as the man behind Graffiti6, does the first of two nights at the Troubadour behind his solo album “My Hurricane.” Above, the video for “Unbreakable.” ‣ Austin’s Shakey Graves does the first of two nights at […]
Fantastic selection of Monday shows: ‣ Toronto duo Electric Youth, whose debut album “Innerworld” is just out on Secretly Canadian, visit the Roxy Theatre, with L.A.’s Midnight Faces supporting. Above, the very stirring video, set in Beirut, for Elecric Youth’s “Runaway.” ‣ Sweden’s Galantis teams up with Booka Shade for a show at the Mayan […]
Incoming: Camp Flog Gnaw festival, Electric Youth, Dorothy, Amason, Wartime Recitals, the Bug, the Diamond Light, Scott Weiland, Dreaming Bull, Secret Chiefs 3, GWAR, Patty Griffin, Wax Tailor, Fat White Family, Rebirth Brass Band, Mariachi El Bronx, Bleachers, Jake Bugg, Gazelle Twin, Pissed Jeans, Nickelback, Clockwise, Traps PS, Julian Casablancas, Dropkick Murphys, the Black Keys, […]