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Stream: Greatest Hits … This Week (Vol. 56)

Take us for a spin — our “Greatest Hits … This Week” mix, that is. This week’s quick-hitting Vol. 56 features music from Bleached, Cuco, Milo Greene, Peaking Lights, Iress and Nights & Weekends. And thanks to all of you who have made this a Saturday ritual. ||| Stream: “Greatest Hits … This Week (Vol. 56” Milo Greene, ‘I Know About You’ CUCO, ‘Lava Lamp’ Harriet Brown, ‘Obsession’ Bleached, ‘Can…

Ears Wide Open: Nights & Weekends

Nights & Weekends make “love songs for grown-ups”, and indeed their forthcoming album “Music for Marriage” is like eavesdropping on conversations between a couple who are beyond mere pillow talk and engaged in the negotiations of day-to-day life. The couple in question is Daron and Jenny Hollowell, whom many know from their role in White Iris Records and other ventures. The album, created “in the…

Photos: Gavin Turek at the Echo

[nggallery id=1512] On the heels of the release of her new EP, “Good Look for You,” L.A. disco queen Gavin Turek performed her first-ever sold-out show at the Echo on Thursday night. When she emerged slowly onto the stage dressed in a hooded sequin robe, fans could not wait to see the imminent magic from Turek, who started her 12-song set with “The Distance” and “Surrender.” Turek, who boasts an…

Tonight in L.A.: Los Campesinos, American Football, Middle Kids, Vetiver, Hideout, AFI, J Boog, the Joy Formidable, N. Lannon, Barclay Crenshaw, Gibbz, Moon Honey, Decorator

Los Angeles concerts for Saturday: ► Welsh septet Los Campesinos visit the Teragram Ballroom in support of their new album “Sick Scenes,” which came out Friday. New York’s Crying opens. ► Regurgent Midwesterners American Football visit the Theatre at Ace Hotl in support of “LP2,” their first album in 17 years. Georgia quarter Mothers open. ► Vetiver plays a cozy show at downtown’s Resident, with…

Video: Hippo Campus, ‘Boyish’

Having released two buzzworthy EPs (“South” and “Bashful Creatures”) and having built a fan base the old-fashioned way (touring, kids), Minnesota’s Hippo Campus have finally released a debut full-length album. The much-anticipated “Landmark” is out today via Grand Jury Music. Lead single “Boyish” is just as catchy as you’d expect from the same quartet that graced us with songs like “South” and…

Premiere: Iress, ‘Crown of Losers’

Iress have been making noise — really loud noise — around Los Angeles for several years, and in 2015 the quartet, then known as IRIS, released its “Prey” EP. On the mountainous L.A. indie-rock landscape, the band (singer-guitarist Michelle Malley, guitarist Alex Moreno, bassist Michael Maldonado and drummer Glenn Chu) are the molten lava. Guitars wail and weep and rumble, drums thunder and…

Stream: Peaking Lights, ‘Little Flower’ ft. Chloë Sevigny

Digging up two tunes that initially entered the universe a year ago, Peaking Lights today releases the “Little Flower” 12-inch on the duo’s own label, Two Flowers, run by Indra Dunis, which will also be the home of Peaking Lights’ fifth record, a double-album due this summer. “Little Flower” was originally commissioned by Michel Gaubert as part of a series featured during NYC fashion week…

Buzz Bands LA Show, today at 11 on Indie FM

Tune in at 11 a.m. for this week’s Buzz Bands LA Show on The Independent FM — I’ll have new music from Goon, Decorator, Luna Shadows, Iress, Nights & Weekends, Glasz, Mr. Elevator, Milo Greene, the Flusters and more. As is our Friday habit, there’s an archive of the show and a playlist below. And as is our Friday habit, we’ll have our earbuds in. Go here. Listen to “Buzz Bands LA – Indie FM –…

Tonight in L.A.: The Radio Dept., Badbadnotgood, AFI, Circa Survive, the Octopus Project, Moon Duo, Acceptance, Tennis, Jurassic Shark, Hippie Sabotage, Rough Church, Tennyson, Avi Buffalo, Lydia Luce, Slim Kings, the English Beat

Los Angeles concerts for Friday: ► Swedish dream-poppers The Radio Dept. visit the Fonda Theater in support of their latest album “Running Out of Love,” with Germans supporting. ► Circa Survive bring their “On Letting Go” tour to the Shrine Expo Hall, with MewithoutYou and Turnover joining in. ► Badbadnotgood does the first of two sold-out shows at the Regent Theater, joined by Hodgy and London…

Beyoncé bows out of Coachella appearance

Beyoncé, who is pregnant with twins, will not perform at Coachella in April, the Associated Press is reporting. Instead, she will headline in 2018. “Following the advice of her doctors to keep a less rigorous schedule in the coming months, Beyonce has made the decision to forgo performing at the 2017 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival,” the singer’s handlers said in a statement. No Saturday…

Premiere: Milo Greene, ‘I Know About You’

Not many indie-rock gangs can sing gang harmonies like Milo Greene, and the vocals of Robbie Arnett, Marlana Sheetz, Graham Fink and Curtis Marrero are again the calling card on the band’s new “Never Ender” EP, out this week. After the folk-rock stylings on their self-titled debut in 2012, they explored electronic pop on their sophomore album “Control” in 2015. On the new five-song release, their…

Ears Wide Open: New Evil

From the speeding ticket-inducing single “Pale Skin Latin Girls” to the goth swirl of “Beatriz,” New Evil’s new album “A Witch Shall Be Born” has that inspired essence of an act who like things dark and heavy and, at times, laced with acid commentary. Enfante terrible in Dia de los Muertes face paint, lead vocalist Sophie Anita Reyes has charisma to burn as well as impressive range, as she proves…

Video: Spoon, ‘Can I Sit Next To You’

Austin natives Spoon are having fun with the release of their album “Hot Thoughts” (out March 17 via Matador Records). If their second single, “Can I Sit Next To You,” seems eerily familiar that’s because it is. In fact, the band has subliminally placed the song in American Airlines boarding music, in various clubs and venues, and even on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Late Night with Stephen Colbert.”…

Tonight in L.A.: Gavin Turek, Hippie Sabotage, Charming Liars, Ike Reilly, Attila, Mobley, New Evil, No Girlfriends, Split Single, Goon

Thursday’s Los Angeles concerts: ► Disco-pop singer Gavin Turek, whose new EP “Good Look for You” came out last week, brings the party to the Echo, where Soto Voce and Kona join in. ► Electronic duo Hippie Sabotage hits the Novo. ► Chicago troubadour Ike Reilly, who will be joined by his boyhood pal Tom Morello, plays the Hotel Café. ► L.A. trio Charming Liars rock the Troubadour, joined by John…

Ears Wide Open: CUCO

CUCO makes affecting, vintage pop ballads as filtered through the hazy electronics of this era, and despite having played little more than backyard shows and having done little in the way of formal promotion, he’s racked up quite a following on Spotify, Soundcloud and Twitter. The artist behind the name is 18-year-old Omar Banos of Hawthorne (a city that has quite a pop heritage itself), who…

Photos: Tash Sultana at the Echo

[nggallery id=1510] The much-hyped Australian looping maestro and multi-instrumentalist Tash Sultana turned out to be as advertised on Tuesday night at the Echo. After a resounding 17-minute opening jam, Sultana addressed the cheering, packed-to-the-gills room, “I just need to ask, ‘How do you know who the fuck I am?’” Well, word travels. She wowed in the audience in her L.A. debut, displaying…

BROKE LA announces 2017 lineup and new location

Local indie favorites James Supercave, Bloodboy, La Bouquet and BOYO, along producer/DJs CRNKN, Neo Fresco, Sober Rob, Omniboi and Pusher are among the 50-plus artists performing at this year’s BROKE LA Music & Arts Festival. The one-day, five-stage festival, originally founded as Brokechella, celebrates its seventh year by moving to a new date — April 8 (which unlike past fests is not opposite…