Ears Wide Open: Forest
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Forest, the electronic music adventures of Forest Marchini, debuts this week with the EP “The Struggle Is Not Real” — and plays it live at Echo Park Rising.
Ears Wide Open: Freddy Spacer
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With Y LUV on hiatus, frontman Freddy Janney has unveiled his solo electro-pop project, Freddy Spacer. “Give Me the Night” will come with dancers and a light show too.
Popular With Us 2014: Buzz Bands LA’s favorite Los Angeles EPs of the year
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EPs can be funny little beasts. They often serve as kind of a hi-how-ya-doin’ introduction rather than a broad artist’s statement – a handful of songs, a particular single, maybe a remix or three, a taste of what is to come. They vary so much in breadth they are difficult to review. So the Buzz […]
Tonight in L.A.: Burger A Go-Go (Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls, Bleached), HARD Summer (Jack U, A$AP Mob, Flosstradamus), Summer on Seventh (Peanut Butter Wolf, YACHT, De Lux), Beyoncé/Jay Z, Arcade Fire/Dan Deacon, more
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Another super Saturday: ‣ Burger A Go-Go happens at the Observatory with Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls, Bleached, the Coathangers, Shannon & the Clams, the Muffs, Peach Kelli Pop, Summer Twins, Colleen Green, the Aquadolls, SISU, Slow Paradise, Massenger, Death Valley Girls, the Fly Traps, LA Witch, Raw Geronimo, Meow Twins, Cheryll, Tashaki Miyaki and Teenage Burritos. […]
Stream: Y LUV, ‘Jacques Cousteau’
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The adrenaline-charged new single from L.A. pop quintet Y LUV is an homage to French explorer/author/scientist Jacques Cousteau – and it finds the band doing some exploring of its own. Over a dance-punk bass line that could have sprung from an early Bloc party album, “Jacques Cousteau” is “about letting your fear push you to […]
The Week Ahead: Nov. 11-17
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Incoming: Andrew McMahon, Diane Coffee, Sparks, Of Montreal, Blink-182, M.I.A., the Fratellis, Minor Alps, Alison Moyet, Cults, the Cartel, Strange Markings, Quasi, Mad Professor, Only You, Melt Banana, Lupe Fiasco, Mason Jennings, Cass McCombs, Big Freedia, the Vim Dicta, Jonathan Wilson, Steve Aoki, Iggy Azalea, Waka Flocka Flame, Beats Antique, Mayday Parade, the Record Company, Vienna […]
Stream: Y LUV, ‘All I Wanna Do’
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Since they appeared on the landscape in 2011, L.A. quintet Y LUV have embraced a so-romantic-it’s-almost-squishy take on synth-rock, with diminutive frontman Freddy Janney’s boyish, pleading vocals leading the way over saccharine melodies and danceable rhythms. Their new EP “Take the Ride” (released this week) aims high – lead single “All I Wanna Do” seems […]
Tonight in L.A.: John Fogerty, Fleetwood Mac, Lissie, DIIV/Bad Suns, Rainbow Jackson, LA Font
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Tuesday things: ‣ John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival headlines a solo night at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ Legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac continues their tour over at the Honda Center in Anaheim. ‣ Lissie stops by the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery for an intimate show featuring new songs off her forthcoming […]
Tonight in L.A.: Psychic Friend, Sir Sly, Lisa Loeb, HOTT MT, Twenty One Pilots, Split Screens, Y LUV
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Your Wednesday night show menu: ‣ Psychic Friend – the new vehicle for the music of Imperial Teen’s Will Schwartz – celebrates the release of its debut album “My Rocks Are Dreams” (out this month on Dangerbird) with a show at the Satellite. Schwartz’s very funny pal Sarah Silverman will open the show. [See “Once […]
Gallery: Chinatown’s Lunar New Year Festival, scenes from Sunday’s local music stage
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Sunday’s second day of the Year of the Snake Lunar New Year Festival in Chinatown was a little more chill than the parade-filled first day, but there was plenty of energy on the local music stage, where random ninjas crashed the set by the taiko-drum-wielding Random Ninjas, young trio the Vim Dicta played a set […]
