**** THIS IS A DRAFT**** 4-21-12 For any one who payed $250+ and endured the blistering heat at Coachella, I have a notion for you. A music festival conveniently located in down town LA that cost $5! Just like it's well-known brethen, Brokechella had multiple stages - well two actually. One located beneath the vaulted ceiling of Studio Six01 and an outdoor stage. The indoor stage featured danceable indie rock. The stand out performance was delivered by INFANTREE, who's frontman, guitarist, and basist worked up a sweat harmonizing together. Performances by Yoya and Das Tapes also stood [...]
BRONZE SWAGGER, THE WALLBURDS, BALLERINA BLACK, AND YOYA ON THURSDAY APR. 12TH AT THE SATELLITE, 1717 SILVER LAKE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+
There are a handful of unsung geniuses in the L.A. scene right now, but perhaps none more primed to soundtrack romantic CW montages and headline the Hollywood Bowl than yOya. The band's wonderful "Fireworks" video puts a new spin on found footage, pairing new videography with childhood VHS tapes and atomic test footage that dovetails with the track's lyrical bent. Stream/buy their debut album below. Nothing To Die by yOya
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If you'll remember, I shared this song earlier in the year and told you to throw it on a mix labeled "SPRINGTIME." Hopefully you took me up on that. Here's the video for this great track as another reminder. MP3: yOya - Fireworks
From left: yOya, LA Font and Big Moves / Photos by David Greenwald With our successful SXSW party behind us and the summer festival season mouth-wateringly close, Rawkblog is proud to be a sponsor of Brokechella 2012, an alternative to that paycheck-eating event down in the desert. Brokechella is a wallet-friendly $5 show at downtown L.A.'s Six01 Studios with a number of Rawkblog favorites, including LA Font, Big Moves, yOya and the Dead Ships, as well as Rumspringa, Infantree and more. The first 300 hundred people through the doors will get a swag bag (Justin Bieber [...]
MONTE MAR RESIDENCY WITH YOYA, BLISSES B, WARSHIPS, AND ARIEL RUBIN ON MONDAY MAR. 19TH AT THE SILVERLAKE LOUNGE, 2906 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+
The Buzz Bands LA crew is still in Austin due to a late flight out, but the excellent post-SXSW shows in L.A. start tonight: ► The Temper Trap 's first post-SXSW show happens at the El Rey Theatre tonight as they continue to tour in support of their forthcoming self-titled album (out June 5 on Glassnote and Columbia). [ Listen to "Rabbit Hole" here. ] Local band PAPA (who just played our SXSW showcase ) and DJ Izzi Willow support. ► Swedish multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen — aka Loney Dear [...]
Raise a glass for Elvis: ► The Annual Elvis Presley Birthday Bash — the King would have turned 77 years old today — goes off startinga t 4 p.m. at the Echoplex. The long-running event, staged by Art Fein and now more than 25 years old itself, brings a host of musicians and celebrities to the stage to celebrate and interpret Presley's music. Fun, with no Elvis impersonators. ► Vancouver's Felix Cartal heads up the party at Drai's Hollywood. That's the video for the new Dim Mak Records single "Don't Turn on [...]
BIG MOVES, THE PREACHERS, LA FONT, AND YOYA ON MONDAY SEP. 19TH AT THE BOOTLEG THEATER, 2220 BEVERLY BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:00PM/ FREE/ 21+
Lord Huron / all photos by David Greenwald For the last 13 months, I've written a weekly column first for Brand X and currently the Los Angeles Times dubbed L.A. Unheard. The goal is to point out promising new local artists; during a short-lived concert series, we gave them the chance to play some cool shows, too. I've tried very hard to avoid hype and trends and go with my gut, which means the column's probably missed a lot of fresh electro and hip-hop, though we've managed to catch Foster the People, Hanni El Khatib [...]
SEANSHAN, DASTARDLY, AND YOYA ON MONDAY AUG. 8TH AT LOT 1 CAFE, 1533 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 9:00PM/ $3 OR TWO FOR $5/ 18+
SOMETHING ABOUT RIVALS, DREAMTAPES, AND YOYA ON MONDAY JUN. 20TH AT LOT 1 CAFE, 1533 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 9:00PM/ $5/ 18+
A jam-filled PSA from my day job : we have another free, rad show at the Echoplex tonight with L.A.'s own Airlines and yOya. Be ready to dance and feel really poignant emotions, respectively. Maybe both at once. See you there. Airlines - "Burial Grounds": mp3 yOya - "Fireworks": mp3
A jam-filled PSA from my day job : we have another free, rad show at the Echoplex tonight with L.A.'s own Airlines and yOya. Be ready to dance and feel really poignant emotions, respectively. Maybe both at once. See you there. Airlines - "Burial Grounds": mp3 yOya - "Fireworks": mp3
Another busy Monday ... ► Tift Merritt won plenty of acclaim for last year's "See You on the Moon," her fourth album, and her recent turn in the star-studded Big Star tribute in New York City only polished her resumé. The 36-year-old singer-songwriter nears the end of a long tour with roots rocker Stephen Kellogg tonight at the Bootleg Theater. (It's an early show.) ► Rising indie-rockers Hands headline the RSVP-only It's a School Night at Bardot, but it's the EP release party for [...]
Augmenting acoustic pop music with a beat machine isn't revolutionary these days with the likes of artists such as Ellie Goulding propelling the "folk-tronica" genre. However, L.A. band yOya still writes playful songs of chipper guitar riffs boosted by complex rhythms that tug their whimsical lyrics in memorably pleasant directions. Falsetto harmonies from Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich, who have been friends since their days in Corvallis, Oreg., before studying music together at USC, highlight the solid balance between their folk-rock roots from the past and urban influences from the metropolis they live in now. Their latest album [...]
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