If you’re a Portugal. the Man fan like me, you’ve probably been anticipating their upcoming album release for a long time already (I mean, you’ve probably even pre-ordered the deluxe package by now). Expected to drop July 19th, In the Mountain In the Cloud is the alternative-psychadelic band’s 6th studio album. Now, P.tM has been
Picture by Fernando Vidal Oregui Picked By: Laurel Kathleen Who: Dante vs. Zombies Where: The Echo, Los Angeles, CA When: Monday, June 13th Doors open at 8:30pm Cost: FREE Age Restrictions: 21+
OK, all you folkies in Portland- listen good. If you want a new bluegrass singer to love, look no further. Sarah Jarosz is “Gillian Welch‘s long-lost daughter,” according to Rolling Stone. Not sure yet? Download and listen to this- “Annabelle Lee,” a haunting bluegrass ballad that features Jarosz’s lovely voice and some serious fiddling.
The dreamy lo-fi group Memoryhouse from Ontario is playing Glasslands Friday night, along with High Highs, North Highlands and Wonder Bear, starting at 8:30pm. Memoryhouse is the ambient bedroom project of composer Evan Abeele and photographer Denise Nouvion, but according to their tumblr, they now have a five piece band line-up! Wait, there’s more –
Attention everyone: Phantom Tails, bringing you the weirdest but coolest electro-psych-rock (or, in their words, “Deep Space Doom Funk”) out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has created a YouTube channel, PhantomTailsTV, and uploaded a new, grossly-awesomely-strange video for their single “All Good Things” (posted above). The band is planning on releasing more new stuff on this channel
Tonight, Tha Boogie takes their acclaimed stage show to Los Angeles’ Viper Room for their first area show in several months. The Los Angeles-based, Rancho Cucamonga-bred have been one of the most talked about new bands in the area for sometime.
White Arrows Hats off to The Echo and The Rumble for assembling such a potentially mesh-worthy trio of bands at tonight’s free show! In addition to BestNewBands.com’s favorite LA psych rockers White Arrows (see Lauren Novik‘s interview with the band or her post about their must-see set at Sasquatch!), gritty blues duo My Goodness and
Freestyle, random rap, afro-tastic hair, and spas-tastic dance party fun don’t even begin to clue you in to what you’re in for when you go to see Darwin Deez. The spastic pop rock sin-sation has been on my personal heavy rotation list for weeks and singer songwriters have been so inspired they themselves have taken
If you Los Angelenos need a great way to start your summer, head over to The Echo tonight to see Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. play live with supporting acts EMA and Oregon Bike Trails. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is touring for their new upcoming LP It’s a Corporate World. You may have seen these guys
We all know The Killers are awesome; I find them especially awesome since they’re from my hometown of Las Vegas. So, naturally, it sort of (read: really) sucked when they went on hiatus. Soon thereafter, I was excited to learn that frontman Brandon Flowers was releasing a solo album that would be entitled Flamingo. This