Los Angeles band ’ Harriet have given us another taste off of their upcoming record, “American Appetite”, which hits your ears January 29th on Harvest Records. Their newest cut, “Bent,” is much more intimate, confessional sounding track that feels more like you are inside the head of the songwriter. The song cuts deep, as any track of forlorn love song does. I’ve been waiting years for this record (originally kickstarted in 2012) and I’m super excited from everything I’ve heard. from this band.
This is the second album by the Los Angeles-based dream pop/shoegaze/folkgaze band. The two main members –Aimée Nash and Scot Van Ryper are Australian, and they moved to Los Angeles sometime between their 2009 debut album and the new one. Although it’s mainly the two of them, they’ve carried some extra members who came from other bands like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Dum Dum Girls.
This is reminiscent of a lot of stuff that I really love from the early 1990s. Galaxie 500. Mazzy Star. Swallow.
This is another band that I’d never heard of, but whose album that I fell in love with after listening to just a few seconds of one song. Let Me Be Your Light is taken from the new album “The Door Behind the Door” due for release 24th February 2015.
The Black Ryder is a collaboration between Australian duo Aimee Nash & Scott Von Ryper now based in Los Angeles.
Their debut album ‘Buy The Ticket, Take the Ride’ was released through Mexican Summer (USA) in September 2010 & EMI Music / The Anti-Machine Machine (Australia). Rolling Stone Magazine Australia included the album in their Top Albums of the Year.
The much anticipated follow up to their acclaimed debut was released on 24th February 2015, ‘The Door Behind the Door’ transforms The Black Ryder’s kaleidoscopic sound and vision into something even more vivid, uncompromising, and sublime, bringing in new textures and emotions and moments of catharsis and transcendence. (Matt Diehl – Spin / Rolling Stone / T Magazine / Billboard)
The band will be playing shows both in the USA + UK in support of their new album release in February & March, & will be joining The Jesus & Mary Chain as special guests on their Psychocandy USA tour in May.
Cabin Down Below – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Troubadour – Los Angeles CA – Dec 19 2015,
Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon cover) – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Troubadour – Dec 19th 2015
I’m a Man – (Bo Diddley cover) – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Troubadour – Dec 19 2015, 4th Merry Minstrel Musical Circus. Ron Blair is on bass. Drummer Steve Ferrone was out the the country. Matt Laug from Dirty Knobs was outstanding in his place
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers fans can check out video footage from his recent surprise set, that took place on December 19th in Los Angeles at the Troubadour. The iconic Florida rocker and his longtime band the Heartbreakers made their only live appearance of 2015 at the famed West Hollywood club to perform a 10-song set, which included a rocking rendition of their 1993 single “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.”.
Thirteen Days (J.J. Cale cover) – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at the Troubadour – Dec 19th 2015, 4th Annual Merry Minstrel Musical Circus. Ron Blair is on bass. Drummer Steve Ferrone was out the the country. Matt Laug from Dirty Knobs was outstanding in his place.
Dogs on the Run – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Troubadour – Dec 19th 2015
Tom Petty’s appearance was part of the fourth annual Merry Minstrel Musical Circus, a charity event organized by Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell and singer/songwriter Jonathan Wilson in support of the Tazzy Animal Rescue Fund. Described as a “holiday gathering and jamathon,” the night featured plenty of star power, including performances by Jackson Browne and Dawes, as well as ELO’s Jeff Lynne, who joined Tom Petty and company during their set for the songs “Runaway,” “Poor House” and “Roll Over Beethoven.”
Also sitting in on Petty’s set was studio drummer Matt Laug (Alanis Morissette, Alice Cooper, Slash’s Snakepit). Laug sat in for absent Heartbreaker’s drummer Steve Ferrone.
Last Dance with Mary Jane – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Troubadour – Dec 19th 2015
Runnin’ Down A Dream – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Troubadour – Dec 19th 2015, 4th Annual Merry Minstrel Muscial Circus.
Ron Blair is on bass. Drummer Steve Ferrone was out the the country. Matt Laug from Dirty Knobs was outstanding in his place
The band played an eclectic mix of covers and hits. See below for the night’s setlist.
Tom Petty and company have been enjoying some downtime from the road since wrapping their massive tour in support of their last studio album, Hypnotic Eye, earning the band their first chart topping album in their entire 39-year career. Petty is currently involved with Sirius satellite radio hosting his own program “Buried Treasure” on channel 27 and has talked about plans to make a new record with his earlier band, Mudcrutch in 2016. For the latest details on Tom Petty, click here.
Although most of their material is produced and performed under the name “The Heartbreakers”, Tom Petty has also released three solo albums, the most successful being 1989’s Full Moon Fever. In these releases, members of the band contributed as studio musicians.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers setlist at Troubadour:
Cabin Down Below (Tom Petty song)
Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon cover)
I’m a Man (Bo Diddley cover)
Thirteen Days (J.J. Cale cover)
Dogs on the Run (Tom Petty song)
Runaway (Del Shannon cover) (with Jeff Lynne)
The Poor House (Traveling Wilburys cover) (with Jeff Lynne)
Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry cover) (with Jeff Lynne)
Mary Jane’s Last Dance (Tom Petty song)
Runnin’ Down a Dream (Tom Petty song
The Ones to Watch in 2016 list; include Singer Songwriter based in Los Angeles and Buddhist Miya Folick rubs shoulders with Mieke in more ways than one. Equally spiritual, this solo singer songwriter also goes in for opaque lyrics, set to tales of getting too drunk to have a coherent argument with her boyfriend. Words from the heart and soul, Folick’s 2015 debut EP Strange Darling and a successful CMJ performance makes her eligible for inclusion on end of year lists everywhere.
Miya- guitar, vocals, casio
Josh Grondin- guitar, piano
Jon Engelhard- bass
Cassidy Turbin- drums
great songs and lyrics…a good summery voice..all on a rush of guitars..I hope this is the big for them..A little of a Californian Husker Du..a lot of Go Gos on legal highs, The few songs I’d heard before were good tight indie pop but now they’ve gone to a major label my fears were diminished as soon as “Feeling OK” blasted through my speakers. The voice, the lyrics and the music has matured but without losing it’s edge. There are shades of 80’s pop a la The Go Go’s and 90’s via Throwing Muses. With this and the Wolf Alice album out, will this year be all about girls and guitars?
Best Coast are a bit like a game of hopscotch. The strategy is simple: Take a few hops forward, sometimes inside the box, sometimes outside, and with enough practice at the reliable pattern comes enough skill to exercise a little style in your step. 2010’s Crazy for You laid the basics of Best Coast’s game — earnest lyrics about being stoned and in love, interspersed with a few ooh’s and ahh’s, and unbelievably catchy hooks drenched in honey, sunshine and surf. California Nights shows off the tricks Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno have mastered after many run-throughs of that formula since — opening track “Feeling OK” is incredibly polished, while the title track is a hazy, gliding departure from the crunchy pop we’ve come to depend on from the duo. In its familiar patterns, California Nights is as endearing as any Best Coast release to date.
Against the Clock is a series where we give an artist 10 minutes in the studio and see what they come up with.
Matt Mondanile is the lead guitarist of Real Estate, but he’s been making music on his own as Ducktails for even longer and how he makes that music has fascinated us for years. Mondanile builds his starry psych-rock pieces more like an electronic producer, gradually layering pieces he’s played like jigsaw pieces to make music that’s comfortingly familiar, yet tantalizingly surreal. We caught up with Mondanile, about to start a European tour, at his studio in downtown LA where he laid out guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums with time left for a shredding, feedback-filled solo. Watch it above
The worst ’80s revivalism — read: most ’80s revivalism — is the musical equivalent of a chewed-up wad of gum, hardened and sapped of its flavor and stuck to the bottom of some Johnny-come-lately A&R executive’s desk. The best ’80s revivalism hits like a gust of winterfresh breath, sweet and chilly and vibrantly alive. MUNA are the latter kind of band; the good feeling they elicit is so potent that you might not notice what a biting aftertaste Katie Gavin’s incisive lyrics leave behind, MUNA is Katie, Josette, & Naomi
founded by Katie Gavin (lead vocals/production), Josette Maskin (lead guitar), and Naomi Mcpherson (rhythm guitar/production), MUNA is a dark pop band based in los angeles blending the brooding sensuality of r&b, rhythms of funk, and audacity of synthpop with raw, unbridled lyricism. Muna is currently accumulating and slowly releasing a stockpile of songs that lend themselves both to the dancefloor and to emo bedroom solitude. they hope you can put them to good use.
Want loud? Los Angeles-based power trio Fuzz does that, pounding out relentless, ear-splitting riffs with abandon. But they do more, too. For starters, Fuzz is a guitar band par excellence. Name another band where every member—even the drummer—is a guitar-playing badass. Team Fuzz dominates the new wave of SoCal garage-punk-psychedelic-stoner-rock. They are prolific, restless, enigmatic, ubiquitous—their combined output is prodigious—and they’re forever releasing, touring, or supporting something.
At their core, Fuzz is simple enough. Ty Segall (singer, songwriter, guitarist, and solo artist) sings and plays drums. Chad Ubovich (guitar and vocals with the Meatbodies, guitar and bass with Mikal Cronin) holds down the low end. And Charles Moothart (guitar with Ty Segall, GØGGS, and more) plays guitar and is the band’s primary riff generator. With so many different projects, maintaining focus could be difficult. Moothart says it isn’t. “Fuzz is a very specific sound so it’s an easy thing to separate in that way,
Ty Segall’s band Fuzz play Burgerama, pay homage to Woody Allen. Fuzz is a band consisting of guitarist Charles Moothart (Moonhearts / Ty Segall Band) & drummer Ty Segall. Fuzz was formed as an outlet for Moothart’s affection for serious, heavy riffage a’la Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer & Jerusalem. Live they are augmented by bassist Chad Ubovich (Meatbodies / Mikal Cronin band)
Cerf Volant is a shoegaze/dream pop duo from Los Angeles and San Francisco. Its members are Andrea Perdue (synths/vocals), Jérémie Rüest (guitars/loops). They also get contribution from Zaied Ali (beats/samples).
I don’t know when this band got started, but they have some tracks on compilations and tribute albums dating back to 2013. A different version of tonight’s song appears on a 2013 compilation called Whatever Forever, which featured bands from Lawrence, Kansas. Perdue is, I think, originally from Kansas. She speaks French, and another one of their songs –“Foal”– features her bilingual French and English lyrics. Rüest is, I think, of French extraction. he was in a different band with Perdue in Paris in 2009.
It’s also worth noting that the band’s name is French for Kite. Literally, it means “flying deer”, but that’s how they describe a kite.
The band has a self-titled debut EP coming out very soon via Beko, but details are sketchy at best.
Front to back, Slutever deliver Almost Famous with a sneer. Amid shouts of “smother me!” and “nobody loves anybody,” LA punks Rachel Gagliardi and Nicole Snyder craft huge, heaving grunge blasts that smell like stale cigarettes and taste like last night’s regret. Wake up hungover as fuck, look around discouraged, go right back to bed Almost Famous confronts grown-up problems with anxiety and unpreparedness: “Now that you’re older, things aren’t much better/ It starts to look bad when you can’t pay your rent.” Yeah, that’s bad, but at least Slutever are stumbling through it with style.
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