Premiere: Memory Rounds, ‘Glances’
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The new project of Ryan Kirkpatrick (ex-Red Cortez) and Matt Aveiro (ex-Cold War Kids), Memory Rounds will release their debut album, “Time Runs Low” (produced by Gus Seyffert), next week.
Ears Wide Open: Calvin Love
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Calvin Love originally moved to L.A. from his native Edmonton, Canada, to ply his guitar skills for gone-but-not-forgotten indie rockers Red Cortez. In the background and around tours, Love embarked on a solo project he describes as “lo-fi bedroom pop” that, as many ventures of its kind do these days, trades in the gone-but-being-remembered sounds […]
Download: Just an Animal, ‘Kamikaze’
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Just an Animal’s debut album “Lonely Hunter” (out Tuesday) marks a radical turn for the Los Angeles quartet formerly known as Red Cortez, and it’s almost all for the better. Gone is the self-conscious, guitar-heavy rock ’n’ soul of the foursome’s early recordings, which (first under the name the Weather Underground) produced a series of […]
Ears Wide Open: Just an Animal (f/k/a Red Cortez)
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For Harley Prechtel-Cortez, Ryan Kirkpatrick, Diego Guerrero, and Calvin J. Love – the guys Los Angeles knew as Red Cortez – it was a matter of “recalibrating our ears.” That’s how Kirkpatrick described the quartet moving on and becoming Just an Animal, whose music bears only a faint resemblance to the amped-up rock-and-blues Red Cortez, […]
Tonight in L.A.: Richard Swift/Red Cortez, Eulogies, J. Tillman/Jenny O, War Tapes/Robotanists
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Top shows to take the chill off your Monday night: ‣ Richard Swift makes magic as much as he does music. The former SoCal resident, now ensconced in Oregon and releasing music on Secretly Canadian, deals in various strains of baroque, chamber, ragtime, lounge and folk pop, making it all sound timeless. I can recommend […]
Tonight in L.A.: Gang of Four, Red Cortez/Eastern Conference Champions, Jenny O/Harper Simon
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Best stuff from tonight’s embarrassment of show riches: ‣ The legendary Gang of Four wind up a 13-date U.S. tour tonight at the Music Box behind their new album “C O N T E N T.” Opening are energetic Canadian pop-rockers Hollerado – their one-take video for “Americanarama,” above, has gotten them a bunch of […]
Download: Red Cortez, ‘EP Two’ (and more)
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[Playing a little weekend catch-up …] For a band that hasn’t yet released a full-length album, Red Cortez has a pretty formidable catalog of songs. That much is evident in the sets the L.A. quartet has played the first to weeks of their Satellite residency, and in the free, four-song EPs Harley Prechtel-Cortez (pictured) and […]
Download: Red Cortez, ‘EP One’
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Just in time for tonight’s kickoff of its residency at the Satellite, Red Cortez has released the first of four free EPs the L.A. quartet will issue this month. Some of those songs figure to be a taste of the hard-charging rock’n’ soul planned for Red Cortez’s long-awaited debut album “Virgin Ideas.” The foursome of […]
Tonight in L.A.: Red Cortez, Jenny O, Robotanists, Hanni El Khatib, Hot As Sun, Foo Fighters (again)
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So much free music, so little time: ‣ Red Cortez kicks off its residency at the Satellite by releasing the first of this month’s four free EPs. [Watch this space for a link later today.] Supporting tonight will be Herman Dune (frontman David-Ivar performing solo), the Silent Comedy and Rocco Deluca. ‣ Very good lineup […]
New bits: Red Cortez, Voxhaul Broadcast, Eastern Conference Champions, the Satellite
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‣ Red Cortez is throwing everything it has at this month’s residency at the Satellite. Well, not everything, because Red Cortez has a wealth of music, the best of which will emerge on the L.A. quartet’s debut album later this year. But some of the rest of the songs will be released in the form […]
