It’s easy to imagine the Habits album as a laboratory experiment gone south – a beaker overflowing, then exploding, triggering a chain reaction and sending particulates all over the room until, when the smoke clears, there’s something beautiful on the wall. The title is “Unselves in Arrival,” which suggests some metaphysical exploration is in order […]
[Here’s our long-delayed wrap-up on October’s Culture Collide fest:] Last month’s second annual Culture Collide festival staged by Filter found the chewy center for two groups of music fans – sonic explorers bent on discovering new bands, and expatriates of the 24 nations represented by the bands playing the neighborhoody, eight-venue event in Echo Park. […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to piano man Dustin O’Halloran …] Top 4 local shows on a good night for local shows: ‣ Highland Park’s Seasons premier their video for “Light, Lost” (that’s a photo from the video shoot, left) at 9 tonight at Spaceland, kicking off an excellent night that includes Modern Time Machines, […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Paul Oakenfold …] Top 4 Monday night hangs: ‣ Physical Forms – a new five-piece featuring the Mae Shi’s Jeff Byron and Marcus Savino, Busdriver, Kevin Lenhart (Division Day) and Marty Sataman (Silver Daggers) – debut at Pehrspace. Got the lowdown from Byron himself. ‣ Strong finish to this […]
Halloween Swim Team gave us a happy new year 18 months ago with its debut album “The End of the Sky,” and now the L.A. trio is setting is sights on a bigger project – a series of six EPs leading up to the release of a new album “ANTENNAAA.” The first finds HST very […]
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 […]
[How did I never notice that Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams share the same birthday? Ryan turns the big three-five today, and Bryan the even bigger five-oh … meaning he was 9 in the “Summer of ’69.” Celebrate by hitting a show …] The Pixies aren’t the only iconic band from the 1980s making the […]
[Ben Harper turns 40 today. He’ll be one of the folks doing the big “Hullabaloo” fundraiser for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music at Union Station on Halloween night, by the way …] Should be a nice night to bring a sweater and settle in for some music under the stars – Regina Spektor, who’s been […]
[Andy Bell of Oasis, and Ride before that, turns 39 today. Cheers, mate. And in L.A. environs …] Black Francis hits town for a pair of solo acoustic dates at the Mint, with Mere Mortals [whose new music I previewed a couple of weeks ago] opening. … Let’s see: A 60-foot giantess, a discredited scientist […]
Monday, and it’s already a ridiculous night for shows: That familiar face you can spot playing the early set tonight at Gangi’s residency at Spaceland is actor/director Adam Goldberg, who will be fronting his musical project LANDy. Goldberg has written songs for years and has been an occasional collaborator in the L.A. band the Black […]