Photos: City and Colour at the Fonda Theatre
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Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green/City and Colour led a night of folksy heartbreak at the Fonda Theatre Thursday night.
Premiere: Dream System 8, ‘Color the Stars’
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Dream System 8 are David Klotz and Erica Elektra — and a room full of vintage synthesizers, which paint the songs on the duo’s album “We Sleep Again” in ’80s hues.
Premiere: People and Stars, ‘You’re Not Alone’
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David Klotz (ex-Fonda) steps out from his day job with “Game of Thrones” to debut People and Stars, a collaboration with singer Amanda Tate.
Popular With Her: Seraphina L’s Favorite 25 Albums of 2013
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Although Buzz Bands LA spends a lot of energy following local artists, my year-end album list is a general one. (EPs are a different story.) In comparison to last year’s list, 2013’s lineup seems to be dominated by artists from across the pond – with a handful of L.A.-based artists making the cut. Check out my […]
Stream: Fonda, ‘Sequence Dream,’ ‘Another New Year’s Eve’
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Hot on the heels of this year’s “Sell Your Memories,” husband-and-wife duo Fonda have already announced that they’ve recorded enough material this summer for a release in 2014 – and we’re not complaining. Their shoegaze dreampop has been known to give BBLA HQ warm fuzzies every time they strike those Britpop chords and sing those […]
Video: Fonda, ‘She Is Real’
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All those jangling, rapturously harmonized guitars on the new Fonda album “Sell Your Memories” can make you feel as if you’re flying. Or just twirling slowly, as the languid number “She Is Real” does. Director David Butow sequences cityscapes, cloudscapes and images of personal escapes to accompany the boy/girl musings of David Klotz and Emily […]
Stream: Fonda, ‘You’ve Got a Life of Your Own’
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Fonda stayed in hibernation from 2003 to ’11 – family life, days jobs and such – but once the L.A. band released the fuzzy, Britpop-inspired “Better Days” last year, we knew we were getting more. And those who regularly find themselves smitten with ’90s dream-pop shoegaze and a hint of twee melody will agree that […]
Video: Fonda, ‘Seeing Stars’
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Yes, Fonda made the video for its single “Seeing Stars” at the Griffith Observatory. Why not? There’s something pretty astral about the L.A. quartet’s bliss-pop, a well-timed revival of the densely layered guitars of ’90s Britpop. The video even pays brief homage to actually gazing at one’s shoes (where the pedals lay, of course). The […]
Stream: Fonda, ‘Seeing Stars’
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When Dave Klotz and Emily Cook resurfaced in mid-2011 after taking enough time away from parenting duties to restart Fonda, indie-pop fans had another reason to rejoice. Their three albums between 1998 and 2003 nailed the Britpop-derived sound that many current indie artists mine and manipulate – noisy guitar-and-synth, boy/girl vocals, soaring melodies. Fonda’s 2011 […]
Tonight in L.A.: Nosaj Thing and more at KXSC Fest, Unknown Mortal Orchestra/White Arrows, Veronica Falls/Bleached, War Widow, Death to Anders/Fonda
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Saturday’s slate: ‣ Maybe it’s time to go back to college? Today’s KXSC Festival (5 p.m.-midnight) brings headliners Nosaj Thing (pictured at Coachella last year) and Belgium’s Starfucker to Founders Park on the USC Campus. The free, all-ages event will also feature White Fence, TRMRS, Only You and Fiore, with Dublab, Downtown Lobby and folks […]
