Maison Kitsuné and the luxury California based eyewear brand Oliver Peoples are pleased to present their collaborative capsule collection of eyewear in limited-edition . A launch which coincided with the Maison Kitsuné Tokyo and Café Kitsuné opening on Valentine's Day. An eye-popping line, comprising two exclusive models, namely "Tokyo", the optical model, and "Paris", the solar pair, [...]
Maison Kitsuné and the luxury California based eyewear brand Oliver Peoples are pleased to present their collaborative capsule collection of eyewear in limited-edition . This launch coincides with the Maison Kitsuné Tokyo and Café Kitsuné opening on Valentine's Day! An eye-popping line, comprising two exclusive models, namely "Tokyo", the optical model, and "Paris", the solar pair, each [...]
Maison Kitsuné and the luxury California based eyewear brand Oliver Peoples are pleased to present their collaborative capsule collection of eyewear in limited-edition . This launch coincides with the Maison Kitsuné Tokyo and Café Kitsuné opening on Valentine's Day! An eye-popping line, comprising two exclusive models, namely "Tokyo", the optical model, and "Paris", the solar pair, each [...]
"Sam Page is an independent singer/songwriter who creates guitar-driven pop/rock. After performing at scores of open mics and home-recording several songs, Sam formed a band in 2011 and did twenty gigs in southern California. He then released an EP (Waiting for Another Spring) in April 2012 that earned an encouraging amount of praise. Sam's first full album BREACH was released digitally in January 20133. Sam Page`s voice has an oblique, poppy sensibility that sounds and feels 100% melancholy free, his vibrantly upbeat Indie-Pop is an [...]
Maison Kitsuné and the luxury California based eyewear brand Oliver Peoples are pleased to present their collaborative capsule collection of eyewear in limited-edition . This launch coincides with the Maison Kitsuné Tokyo and Café Kitsuné opening on Valentine's Day! An eye-popping line, comprising two exclusive models, namely "Tokyo", the optical model, and "Paris", the solar pair, each [...]
This Spring-Summer 2013 season, Maison Kitsuné is globe-trotting around Californian lands and West Coast trends. Livening up its new lookbook with postcards, palmtrees and lovestories, the house chose Chelsea Schuchman, a mesmerizing blond girl, and the tatooed skater boy, Braydon Szafranski, as their brand ambassadors. The shooting stetted in the Chateau Marmont hotel, in Los [...]
The Californian are an LA-based band of five who’ve just put the finishing touches on their debut Kickstarter-financed album. ‘Cuz they’re a fine bunch of gentlemen, they’ve given up a track from the collection you can have for free. We can’t tell you much more about these alien beings from Los Angeles (whose website promises they’re not here to do us any harm) except to say the troupe consists of John Graney, Jonathan Price, Darren Robinson, Michael Hopkins and Jake Gideon and that they like — in no particular order — Cinderella Hotel, Anna Calvi and Charles Mansion [...]
A massive Saturday, day and night: ► It's a free day in the park at the La Brea Tar Pits, where the annual Tarfest offers a musical lineup of Blondfire, So Many Wizards, Soft Swells, Helena, the Makepeace Brothers and the Steelwells, as well as live painting, sculpture and family activities. ► Mexican singer-songwriter and Latin Grammy-winner Lila Downs holds forth at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. Las Cafeteras opens. ► Stone Temple Pilots head up a lineup that incudes Deftones, Bush, Scars On Broadway, Chevelle, Hollywood [...]
To those who cringe when they hear the word surf, be assured, this isn't so happy – picking different elements for one of the most looked over genres to have escaped the sixties to lodge itself in our indie scenes, The Californian is a band from LA with an EP,and album and a couple of singles in their back-pocket, determined to step away from the cheerful waves of your Drums, Best Coast and followers and find a different colour to surf – theirs is darker, the beats can be nonchalant like they can be fast and festive, but [...]
If kaleidoscopic indie pop is your thing then be sure to check out Peace . They have been deliciously compared to Foals and WU LYF, and to say we’re not expecting some big things from these guys would just be rude. They debuted a year ago with single BBlood, an eclectic mix of Vampire Weekend-style cloudy guitars, synths and a deep pulsating bass. Yes, on paper it sounds like everything else in the indiesphere, but it's only when you press play do your ears prick and you cast back to some long summer days and [...]
Experimental-hardcore-electro- hip-hop trio Death Grips are building up quite a sizeable air of hype at the moment - and it's easy to see why. Their second album, The Money Store , is out next week and it's getting rave reviews (like this one here ).
A superb Saturday for all tastes: ► Nineties alt-rock innovators Swervedriver swing through L.A. for its first show since last summer, this one at the Key Club; Adam Franklin and crew have some new songs, including a made-for-a-movie track called "Good Times Are Hard to Follow," sung in the movie by Robert Caryle ("Trainspotting"). Heaven, which includes Franklin's bandmates from his other project Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody, opens, along with locals the Bixby Knolls . ► Rodrigo y Gabriela , with a new album "Area 52," are touring with [...]
Jenn Wasner and Andy Stacks couldn’t have placed themselves farther apart Thursday night, but even from opposite ends of the Troubadour stage, the duo known as Wye Oak connected for an hour of electrifying shoegaze and folk-pop. Their set-up was spare, with Wasner minding her guitar and pedal board on the right, while Stacks took to the drums and keyboards on the left like a human octopus. The black backdrop eliminated any distractions onstage, leaving only the neon glow of the venue's sign. ||| Photos by Laurie Scavo [...]
It's a mighty good Monday (if you ignore the weather): ► At the Satellite, where Chasing Kings' residency roars into its fourth week, U.K. quartet the Chevin makes its L.A. debut. That's the video for the title track from the West Yorkshire lads' 2011 EP, "Champion," above. Tonight's bonus — you also gets sets from Nightmare & the Cat and the Californian . ► Koga, featuring the solo material of Evan Koga (formerly of the band Chief), debuts at the Bootleg Theater as part of the [...]
The midweek mix: ► Dinosaur Jr. visits the Music Box to play its 1988 album "Bug" in its entirety, part of a show that will include a Q&A conducted by Henry Rollins and an opening set by Pierced Arrows. ► Alt-rockers Standing Shadows , who since October have released two in of a trilogy of EPs (the final one is coming in January), plug in at the Viper Room on a roaring local bill that includes Tic Tic Boom! , Odd Modern and Hyena . ► [...]
Ten Best Albums of 2011 So, the thing with my list this year is that I've been fortunate enough to have either shared a stage, been on a movie soundtrack together, recorded an album with, spent many quality years as close friends, or at the very least, created some memories over some good times with all but two of the bands represented here. However, none of these disclosures swayed my opinion in naming their recordings as the best to come out this year, they're just all that damn good, and I just happen to know them. [...]
Tonight's touts: ► Morrissey plays a sold-out show at the Shrine Auditorium. ► It's a night for some very good shoegazer rock at the Satellite — Tennis System (that's their video for "Arcane," above) celebrates the release of its album "Teenagers," with United Ghosts (marking the release of their "Holes Into the Night" 7-inch) and Boxviolet , freshly returned from shows in France, supporting. ► Dutch DJ Sander Kleinenberg , who this summer released his debut studio album "5K," holds forth at Avalon Hollywood. [...]
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