Quit Mumbling

At one point during the show, Joey Ryan from the LA based folk duo The Milk Carton Kids, remarked how worried he was to play the Largo for fear of no one showing up.  Well that fear was quickly put to bed last Thursday at the sold-out hometown show for the two troubadours.  Let me [...]

Cass McCombs makes you feel good about feeling bad. Somewhere along the line a cheery cabal of pop musicians got together and agreed that music’s role in contemporary society was to cheer people up. Upbeat songs in major chords with saccharine sweet lyrics are there to make you feel bad about feeling down. You should [...]

American/Australian affinity has grown as of late.  Barack Obama recently toured the island continent and announced the opening of a new military base in Durban, Australia alongside his counterpart, Ms. Julia Gillard.  At around the same time, in the spirit of ANZUS cooperation, Sydney outfit The Jezabels performed a gig this past Monday evening at [...]

Last night Dawes concluded their co-headlining tour with Blitzen Trapper at the Music Box in Hollywood. The band’s return to their hometown seemed to be perfect timing, as lead singer and guitar player Taylor Goldsmith hardly had a voice after the 2-month stretch. Somehow though, Taylor’s voice was hardly affected, and his incredible tone and [...]

Courtesy: Charles Roussel of One Night Shot Coming off the heels of his latest EP, Don’t Break My Love, all members of Nicolas Jaar’s Clown and Sunset imprint converged on Lower Manhattan from St. Petersburg, Paris, Montreal and Providence, Rhode Island for a secret show in the basement of a hotel in SoHo, aptly named [...]

About half way through their cross-country tour, Rhode Island band Deer Tick stopped in Los Angeles Tuesday night to play the Echoplex. While the audience waited for McCauley and co to take the stage, you could sense that the crowd was battling some post-Halloween delirium. But all that changed when Deer Tick filled the room [...]