We give you a couple lovely acoustic videos to go with your Thursday show list: ‣ Good Times for a Good Cause Dept.: Wires in the Walls, Telstar and Little Red Lung team up for a benefit show at the Mint presented by Rock Is a Girl’s Best Friend and Buzz Bands LA (who will […]
Three bands, one good cause: Wires in the Walls, Telstar and Little Red Lung will play a benefit show for PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Mint. The evening is presented by Rock Is a Girl’s Best Friend, along with Buzz Bands LA (who will select tunes before and between […]
Your Sunday variety: ‣ Robotanists and Shadow Shadow Shade headline a worthy lineup at the Airliner including acts such as Death to Anders, Two Guns, and more to kick off a new weekly series called Traffic Ctrl. This just in (3:30 p.m.): Robotanists, Shadow Shadow Shade and Two Guns will not be performing. A note […]
Thursday’s things: ‣ Can I have a those-were-the-days moment? Check out this video for “It’s a Shame About Ray” (which, of course, the record company has not seen fit to make embeddable but is still worth the extra click). It’s the title track from the Lemonheads’ fifth album, released in one of my favorite musical […]
Things you can do after your poolside parties: ‣ The follow-up to Gangi’s very good debut “A” has been a long time coming, but Matt Gangi and collaborator Eric Charamosta have some new (unmastered) songs up on Bandcamp, and they play tonight at Part Time Punks at the Echo along with Swahili Blonde and Maus […]
In the jubilant final verse of Wires in the Walls new single “The Ringer,” the L.A. quintet sings en masse “Hang on tight / hang on tight / things are bound to better,” punctuating their slice of driving Americana with shouted optimism. It’s fitting, considering the band is working on a full-length album, its first […]
Last year Mississippi Man busted out of Fullerton with a truckload of sweet melodies, endearing harmonies and a twangy EP, “The Snake Oil Salesman” that earned them immediate comparisons to indie folk/blues merchants Delta Spirit and Cold War Kids. Since, they’ve had a flirtation with an indie record label, played a mess of shows and […]
[Cheers to Amusement Parks on Fire’s Michael Feerick on his birthday.] Top 3 places I’d considering going were I not going to thoroughly enjoy Admiral Radley and the Happy Hollows at the free Also I Like to Rock show at the Hammer Museum (consider that an invitation to join me; we can karaoke the mock-Schwarzenegger […]
Wake Up Lucid’s no-frills blues feels like a breath of fresh air amid all today’s tricked-out psychedelia and hybridized noise. The project of cousins Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca, the trio’s debut EP “Look Alive People,” recorded to 2-inch tape at the Village in West L.A. a year ago, crackles with bite-sized riffs and taut […]
[Hello, hello … Anybody out there on a Monday holiday? No? Yes?] Add the Young Veins to the latest batch of groups diving into the Swell Sounds of the Sixties. Or Something Similar. The L.A.-based quintet, spearheaded by ex-Panic at the Disco dudes Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, conjoin a little British Invasion with a […]
