Composer, producer and podcast host Hrishikesh Hirway (The One AM Radio) returned to releasing his own music with March’s “Rooms I Used to Call My Own” EP, a sublime soundtrack to one’s quieter moments. He teams up with Jenny Owen Youngs for a night at the Lodge Room on Tuesday.
An abundance of excellent music came my way from the SoCal community in 2011. My favorite 20 albums follow, with some special mentions/recommendations beyond that. It was an especially rich year for folk-rock and singer-songwriter albums, not so much for hard rock. Most of the nouveau electro and experimental releases left me cold. I didn’t […]
2011 was a robust year for music in Los Angeles. Bands broke through, bands broke down; newbies arrived in swarms, some with a bang; and old favorites raised their game, or lost their way. Today, I start a countdown of Buzz Bands LA’s 20 favorite album of the year. [Last year’s list.] First up: Nos. […]
Much ado and much to do on the first Monday day of Shovember: ‣ L.A. quintet Vanaprasta, its debut album “Healthy Geometry” just out last week, kicks off its residency at the Satellite, with Rocco DeLuca, Future Ghost, Newchild and Beatnik Jr. supporting. ‣ Great lineup for the opening night of the Chain Gang of […]
Los Angeles can be such a divisive place. Natives can see its every flaw, chart its sprawl and decay. Emigrants can forever be awestruck by its wonder. Count Massachussetts native Hrishikesh Hirway, the force behind L.A. trio the One Am Radio, among the latter. He wrote “In a City Without Seasons,” off this year’s album […]
[No Junction today, but plenty of functions:] ‣ Everest and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit are the main-stage attractions at the third annual Buskerfest, going off in the East Village Arts District of downtown Long Beach. Two Guns, Pawnshop Kings and Jay Buchanan are among the artists performing throughout the evening on three others stages. […]
On the One AM Radio’s fourth album “Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread,” songwriter Hrishikesh Hirway’s finest outing yet, the juxtaposition of chamber-pop and electronic elements provides for some mighty ephemeral moments. “Sunlight,” the song we touted back in March, is one of them, and Andrew Huang’s new video for the track give it […]
[In response to the inevitable questions I am asked at shows – What have you heard? What are you listening to? What’s new? – today I embark on something called Random Dispatches … the contents of my notebook, spilt.] ‣ Lavender Diamond’s recent show at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts was a revelation, […]
[Happy birthday today to Rivers Cuomo … Here’s some June un-gloom:] Top stops on a Monday: ‣ Brendan Perry’s “Ark,” his first solo album in 11 years, is just out, and the ex-Dead Can Dance frontman (pictured) visits the El Rey Theatre supported by Cocteau Twins co-founder turned film composer Robin Guthrie. ‣ Florence + […]
There’s a sad irony in the fact that the One AM Radio’s video for “Everything Falls Apart” emerged this week, as the band’s label Dangerbird Records retrenched, but that’s shouldn’t detract one bit from glitchy, slow-motion splendor of Hrishikesh Hirway’s tune. On “Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread,” the songwriter/producer’s fourth album and second […]
