Ten Years Ago: Our 2006
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Buzzbands.LA revisits 2006 through a playlist, a good year for local flavor.
Afternoons simply say yes when everything at their album-release show seemed to shout ‘no, no, no’
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If you’ve followed the trials and tribulations of L.A. sextet Afternoons for the better part of a decade, what befell them at their album-release show Friday night at El Cid absolutely, positively certified the band as star-crossed. Midway through Afternoons’ set celebrating the long-awaited release of “Say Yes,” drummer Brent Turner’s kick pedal busted beyond […]
Download: Earlimart, ‘Internet Summer’
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With today’s physical release of their new album “System Preferences,” we get another solid nugget of music from Earlimart. Following up their last single “’97 Heart Attack” and their last live show for a while, Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray’s new single “Internet Summer” brims with a palpable energy. Driven by a young, fresh momentum, […]
Earlimart celebrates the new and old at the Satellite
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Earlimart’s show on Friday night at the Satellite celebrating its new album “System Preferences” felt like a family reunion, even if some prominent siblings and cousins couldn’t make it. Four years have passed since the Aaron Espinoza/Ariana Murray creative alliance released “Hymn and Her.” In that time, they have gotten married (though not to each […]
Tonight in L.A.: Earlimart, Rodriguez, Serj Tankian, Dave Stewart, Citizen Cope, Star Slinger, William Elliott Whitmore, Future Ghost, GZA
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A fantastic Friday: ‣ Earlimart celebrates the release of its new album “System Preferences,” its seventh and first in four years, with a headlining date at the Satellite, supported by Blake Hazard (of the Submarines) and Blonde Summer. ‣ Rodriguez – the rediscovered singer-songwriter who is the subject of the documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” […]
The Week Ahead: Sept. 24-30
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Incoming: Django Django, Spirit Animal, Amanda Palmer, Beach House, Dragonette, the Killers, the Features, Harlan, Hey Champ, Taken by Trees, Conor Oberst, Menomena, Ryan Bingham, Band of Horses, Earlimart, Dave Stewart, Citizen Cope, Rodriguez, Alt-J, the Go-Go’s, Wilco. Above: Mister Loveless stops by the Satellite on Sunday in support of their latest album “Grow Up.” […]
Premiere: Paw City, ‘Lonely Machine’
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He is Michael Orendy, the occasionally reclusive songwriter who, in odd-numbered years since 2007, has released three albums of gorgeous, orchestrated pop as Frankel. She is Ariana Murray, who has been one of the driving forces in long-running L.A. indie-rock band Earlimart. They are married. So maybe their new collaboration, Paw City, was inevitable. Their […]
Grandaddy sounds anything but retired at Fonda
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More than five years after their uneasy parting of the ways, Grandaddy has returned to the stage, and on Monday night at the Fonda Theatre it felt like a triumph – even if the man who closed up shop, songwriter Jason Lytle, sounded a bit tentative about the whole process. “So this getting back together […]
Tonight in L.A.: The Kills, Grandaddy/Earlimart, Birdy, Michael Kiwanuka, Meg Myers, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Francisco the Man, Helena, Golden State
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Way too much for a Monday: ‣ The Kills come back around behind last year’s album “Blood Pressures,” but the duo of Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have another kind of release on the way too – a hardcover photo book titled “Dream and Drive” by band documentarian Kenneth Cappello, who culled the selections from […]
Download: Earlimart, ’97 Heart Attack’
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Seems as if two or three generations of Silver Lake musicians have come and gone since the neighborhood last heard from Earlimart, one of the early (and most enduring, owing to the many bands who have recorded at Aaron Espinoza’s studio The Ship) denizens of the scene. Long known as torchbearers for the lush intimacy […]
