Tonight in LA: Ghost-Note, Martin Bisi, Miya Folick
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Also: Laraaji, Presence 3.0, Karmic, Albert & His Dreamboats, Brigid Mae Power, Eva Luna, Punk Rock Sundays, Kiddie Karoo, Alphabet Soup, Doc Martin, Great Lake Swimmers
Also: Laraaji, Presence 3.0, Karmic, Albert & His Dreamboats, Brigid Mae Power, Eva Luna, Punk Rock Sundays, Kiddie Karoo, Alphabet Soup, Doc Martin, Great Lake Swimmers
Michael Stock, who helms the weekly Part Time Punks club night at hosts the PTP radio show on KXLU, shares his favorite songs of the year.
The “lost” album by the Bay Area shoegazers has been released, 11 years later, and the quartet has reunited to tour behind it. They’re coming to L.A. in late September.
Los Angeles can be surreal like this. One minute you’re agonizing over which big theater show you’d like to attend on Friday night, and the next you’re blowing them all off so you can see the Weddoes play a downtown ranchero bar. For the uninitiated, “the Weddoes” is the endearment bestowed upon U.K. stalwarts the […]
In July, we reported that L.A. shoegazers Tennis System had a new album in the works. But then this happened: Frontman Matty Taylor teamed up with DJ/club promoter Michael Stock of Part Time Punks for a new EP. Stock, as any local devotee of shoegaze/post-punk/darkwave/twee-pop (and assorted flavors) should know, is a KXLU radio host […]
Words and photos by Matt Draper For fans of layered, wafting guitars and introspective yet noisy backdrops, the longtime Sunday night weekly Part Time Punks showered said devotees with the stacked 11-act Shoegaze Festival last Sunday at the Echoplex. Dubbed “the world’s first” (I wonder …), the event featured performances from contemporary ’gazers such as […]
I can’t tell how many times I’ve listened to the Ride album “Going Blank Again,” which came out 20 years ago this spring. The cassette (!) stayed in my car for years after its release, and the work of the Oxford, U.K., quartet remains nonpareil (let’s argue) among bands who melded pop sensibilities with the […]
Some Sunday selections: ‣ “Occupy Skid Row” will be taking place according to the promoter Chuck D despite concerns of acquiring correct permits. The concert benefiting the homeless on Gladys Avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets will start at 1 P.M. with Public Enemy playing at 2 P.M. Other acts scheduled to play include Freestyle […]
Today is the seventh anniversary of the passing of John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, known to the music world as John Peel, the legendary English DJ and tastemaker who died in 2004 at age 65. Last week, a Los Angeles DJ and promoter who keeps the Peel flame burning, Part Time Punks’ Michael Stock, did a […]
Tonight’s touts: ‣ Portland rockers Portugal. The Man are doing it right on the day their new album “In the Mountain in the Cloud” is released. They’re on KCRW this morning, and do two shows later, a 4:30 p.m. acoustic set and a cozy show at El Cid (both of which will be webcast on […]