Lady Danville, everyone’s favorite indie-rock-nerd-chic UCLA grads, returns to headline a sold out show at the Troubadour this Saturday, the 26th. Lucky for me, I will be in attendance. Lucky for you, this means a review will follow, so you can get all the juicy details on Monday morning. Also playing with Lady Danville are
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Maybe the crowd, a crew of mostly sweet-faced, postpubescent hip(hop)sters, had a hard day at college. Maybe the acts’ bourbon-and-coke styles just happened not to coalesce as expected. Maybe it was just one of those Wednesdays. But Troubadour‘s billing last night of DaVinci, The 87 Stick Up Kids, Free the Robots, and Freddie Gibbs with
BestNewBands.com People By the Sea, comprised of husband and wife Leah Grounds and Jake Irwin and brother Dan Irwin is a heartfelt amalgam of rock, pop, folk, and sentimental singer-songwriter sounds. I have been wary of their presence from word around the UCLA campus (the band formed at UCLA) and was first blown away by
Hipsters heart hip hop, especially when the artist in question is probably silently LOL’ing. Wallpaper., the electro-pop duo of producer/rapper/frontman Ricky Reed (aka UC Berkeley music composition graduate Eric Frederic) and drummer Arjun Singh, must be darlings of that community: They formed the group to satirize mainstream music and American pop culture. True to character—Reed,
You know how sometimes you go out for a night on the town, you’re dressed to kill- and then like a bolt of lightening it hits you- lust at first listen. Welcome to my last Saturday night. I’m at the Troubadour (check correspondent Claire’s coverage here) waiting for Hellogoodbye to storm the stage and I’m
On Saturday the 22nd, I headed on out to the Troubadour for another typical night of Los Angeles’ rocking live music scene, and, naturally, I was not disappointed. I don’t mean to make all you non-Angelenos jealous, but you should be totally jealous. It took me a while to understand the hype behind this city,
Yeah- I’m not going to lie to you. I was all about the Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn, I did the whole Call and Return thing, I’ve been getting down with Hellogoodbye for a while, so to step into the creative world that spawned so many amazing songs and supplemental music vids was, in a word,
The word of the evening, ladies and gentlemen, is talent. Last night at the Troubadour, raw talent was apparent in every band that graced the tiny stage, making for an awesomely accurate portrayal of today’s local rock scene. Six groups came and went, each bringing a different and individual sound, thus creating a more than
Floating through the dangerous world of the MySpace “top eight” one night, I came across Fool’s Gold that immediately grabbed me. It was like nothing I’d heard, and the unique vibe was welcomed into my music world instantaneously. It took me a good few lines into the song “Surprise Hotel” to realize that the L.A.