Top recs: Jon Brion tonight, as always; Fiery Furnaces ( pictured; photo by David Greenwald ) and their Radiohead-hating madness at the El Rey on Saturday; Monday, the Books are playing a pretty special gig at Hollywood Forever but I'll be at the Happy Hollows residency to catch Real Estate. The full list for the next few days: 11/21 Saturday – Elefant w/ Division Day @ Troubadour AND Fiery Furnaces w/ Cryptacize, Dent May @ El Rey Theatre AND Holly Miranda opening for The xx, Friendly Fires @ Henry Fonda Theater 11/23 Monday – El Perro Del [...]
L.A. indie rockers Radars to the Sky have been at work on a new album with producer David Newton (who's worked with the Little Ones, the Happy Hollows and the Blood Arm, among others), but they're not messing with the formula that made them Eastside favorites: stabbing guitars underpinned by big rhythms and synth flourishes, with singer-guitarist Andrew Spitser's professorial baritone deadly earnest in addressing themes generally more important than last night's episode of "Gossip Girl." The new single "Selfish Kids" was produced by Andrew Lynch. ||| Download: "Selfish Kids" [...]
Widow Babies' bassist Neal laid his instrument to rest after Saturday night's show at the Smell. The word on the street is that Neal will be attending Columbia University this fall—starting Monday, actually—and for that reason he couldn't play the Spaceland show. Despite this shortcoming, the band played on: Elise gave a lively vocal performance that sounded like a child singing to their favorite song while Danny kept his guitar sounding surfy and Tabor built complex beats out of simple rudiments. Even without a bassist, the Widow Babies ensnared the listeners with style and beauty.
Drums Play Spaceland Monday Night (and It's Free) Ray Davies put on a fantastic show on Saturday night at the Orpheum. If you get a chance to see him on this tour do not hesitate. More on that later. Another great week this week. If you're into buzz bands you might want to check out Drums tonight, The Big Pink on Wednesday, Tape Deck Mountain on Thursday, Neon Indian on Friday and The XX on Saturday. Some of those will be good, but I'm recommending a variety of [...]
Download: Random Patterns "Corruption In The Licorice Den" (from Creatures of Teeth available now from Random Patterns, who play Spaceland tonight with Happy Hollows)
Them Crooked Vultures — nice backgrounder on them in this morning's L.A. Times — have sprung a surprise show on the Sunset Strip, and on the eve of their album release. The trio of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones will play the Roxy tonight; tickets at the door only, and there are no lineups before 2 p.m. ... Florida jangle-pop quartet the Drums visit Spaceland (playing a support slot for November residents the Happy Hollows ) behind their winsome "Summertime" EP. [That's the video for their single "Let's Go Surfing," above.] [...]
Recommended Los Angeles Shows November 16th – November 22nd Monday, November 16th The Happy Hollows with The Drums @ Spaceland Tuesday, November 17th King Khan & BBQ with Those Darlins @ Troubadour Them Crooked Vultures @ The Wiltern Horse Feathers @ Fold Wednesday, November 18th Anglos with Kid Theodore @ Silverlake Lounge Thursday, November 19th The Whigs @ [...]
The Happy Hollows live at The Guest Apartment
Led by the high searing vocals of Sarah Negahdari (who also doubles as nimble guitarist), L.A. trio The Happy Hollows released their debut album, Spells , last month. Spells shows a punk spirit which intermingles musical modernity with the eighties and nineties while showing an equal gift for edgy melody. Somewhere amidst the song "Tambourine," there is talk of falling in love with a young Republican who looked like Billy Corgan. At other stops, such as "Monster [...]
Ray Davies Appears at the Orpheum on Saturday Night I didn't get up to as much as I'd hoped last week, but did catch Julian Casablancas and the Happy Hollows at Spaceland. Casablancas didn't do anything to win me back, but most of the crowd seemed really into it. I'll definitely be at Ray Davies this Saturday and I'll most likely check out more of the Happy Hollows tonight. Monday 11/9/09 [Pick of the Night] [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Builder & the Butchers : "Vampire Lake" [mp3] from Loch Lomond/The Builders & the Butchers Split 12″ other Builder & the Butchers posts at Largehearted Boy Heather Greene : "Moon Hangs Fire" [mp3] from Sweet Otherwise other Heather Greene posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
[Birthday shout-out to L.A. musician/producer Aaron Embry today. Meanwhile, there is an enormous confluence of concerts for a Monday night -- here goes:] The first time I saw U.K. punk-rockers the Cribs play in Los Angeles, frontman Gary Jarman bloodied himself on the microphone, and it was love at first gush. It's not likely that Jarman and brothers Ryan and Ross have toned it down any — even with ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr joining them as a fourth member. Their fourth album, the new "Ignore the [...]
Image - Taylor Herron Recommended Los Angeles Shows November 9th – November 15th Monday, November 9th Band of Horses and Warpaint @ Club Nokia Jason Isbell @ Echo The Happy Hollows @ Spaceland Tuesday, November 10th Via Tania, Rachael Cantu and Sonos Quartet @ Bordello Bishop Allen with Throw Me The Statue @ El Rey Theatre Lisa Hannigan @ Troubadour Dead Meadow with The [...]
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. . . Port O'Brien , Geographer , Grand Lake . . . All this makes for a ridiculous amount of local talent within just one day's time. Let us count the ways: 1) TONIGHT, Thursday, November 5th: Tempo No Tempo , Man/Miracle , Maus Haus at the Rickshaw Stop . 8:00 p.m., $10. 2) TONIGHT, Thursday, November 5th: Grand Lake , the Happy Hollows [...]
The Happy Hollows are strange in the best way. Evoking the shock-essence of Bowie's Space Oddity had David Byrne delivered the lyrics, LA's The Happy Hollows throw and keep you off-guard, shaking open a crack in the head into which they inject slicey, rust-edged razor blades of songs. Sarah Negahdari, the main writer and eccentric artiste in the band, leads on guitar with scream-freaky vocals on Silver, on the more tamely melodic, super-infectiously hook-laden Monster Room and on the catchy fun We Will Find You, which [...]
"Hi, we're Silversun Pickups ," Julian Casablancas told the almost-full house at Spaceland on Monday night. Chuckles all around. Spaceland had billed the opener for this month's residents the Happy Hollows as "secret guests," and the morning line favored an appearance by the Silver Lake heroes, since they'd just gotten back in town from a long tour. Instead, it was the 31-year-old Strokes frontman and temporary Silver Lake resident who emerged from the darkened stage at 10 p.m., wearing a thigh-length leather jacket [...]
ARTICLE BY OSCAR RANGEL PHOTOS BY CHRIS ALVAREZ NOV. 2 | SILVER LAKE—Just when you thought Monday was just like any other day, there's buzz in the air about something big. Scenestar favorite Happy Hollows just returned to Los Angeles...
The Happy Hollows Monday Residency at Spaceland Starts This Week Sorry for the lack of posts, thanks for sticking with me. I caught Kris Kristofferson at the Walt Disney Concert Hall last night. You've got to be a fan of his poetry, because he's not a dynamic performer. That said, he's a legend and I was happy to see him for a second time. I've missed all the recent "secret" shows, but there are a few more this week... Monday 11/2/09 [...]
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