Featuring the Soft Pack, Princeton, Maya Jupiter, Incan Abraham, the Lonely Wild, Summer Twins and more Photographer Jeff Koga shares this gallery from Sunday’s Silver Lake Jubilee. Check it out after the jump:
[A few new tunes from L.A. bands we had recently written about…] Hands, “Come to Know” – Although their name has only gotten slightly easier to Google, Hands finally released their long-awaited “Massive Context” EP this week, via Small Plates. Based on their live shows (like this one), the six genre-melding and multi-textured songs are […]
Nine SoCal bands are playing Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin: Love, L.A.” day party next Wednesday on the first day of the South by Southwest Music Festival. It seems like 999 SoCal bands are actually headed to Austin. When we started culling music from those artists, our uploader begged for for mercy. So we called […]
It’s a mighty good Monday (if you ignore the weather): ‣ At the Satellite, where Chasing Kings’ residency roars into its fourth week, U.K. quartet the Chevin makes its L.A. debut. That’s the video for the title track from the West Yorkshire lads’ 2011 EP, “Champion,” above. Tonight’s bonus – you also gets sets from […]
Your massive Monday menu for MLK Jr. Day: ‣ Sisters Allison Pierce and Catherine Pierce, aka The Pierces, headline It’s A School Night at Bardot. [That’s their video for “Kissing You Goodbye” above from last year’s record “You and I.”] NO and Zane Carney (of Carney) open. Jennifer Teft from Super Soul Sundays also DJs. […]
It’s as if Princeton gave its brainy but not previously brawny indie-pop a style job. And it’s looking good. On its sophomore album “Remembrance of Things to Come,” the Santa Monica-bred quartet of twins Matt and Jesse Kivel, Ben Usen and David Kitz forgoes traditional pop constructs in favor of dense and often percussive orchestrations […]
Happy Monday, and it is indeed a happy Monday: ‣ Funk, R&B and psych-rock mixologist Van Hunt, whose new album “What Were You Hoping For?” came out last fall, does the RSVP-only It’s a School Night at Bardot. Tycho and Jacuzzi Boys also play. ‣ Electro genre-masher Robert DeLong kicks off a residency at Los […]
New year, new month, new free residencies: ‣ L.A. quartet Chasing Kings, their debut album “Nice Guys” on the way in March, hold forth at the Satellite, supported on opening night by Toy Bombs, Cassorla and Brendan Hines. ‣ Bootleg Theater residents Princeton have new music coming too – the quartet’s sophomore album “Remembrance of […]
With last spring’s “To the Alps” and this week’s digital single “Clamoring for Your Heart,” Santa Monica-bred indie-pop quartet Princeton continues to evolve toward a sleeker, Euro sound that’s not far from Jesse Kivel’s side project Kisses. The spare, brooding new song sounds like something Stephin Merritt would’ve done on the classic “69 Love Songs,” […]
[Happy August – where is this summer going? – and happy birthday to Dhani Harrison. Good shows tonight? We’ve got a few …] Monday madness: ‣ Singer-songwriter Robert Francis, largely out of the L.A. eye (but big in Europe) since releasing “Before Nightfall” in 2009, is back with a new batch of songs and this […]
