Teams, aka Sean Bowie, at Check Yo Ponytail, was a tsunami of brilliance. I couldn’t help but splash my feet about to the eclectic textures of his submerged disco trill funk. Teams’ music takes you to a another realm filled with saturated colors and aquatic vibes. I can’t get enough of his sound right now. [...]

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read Billy Gil’s review of Light Asylum and see the illustrated review of Salem by Chris Sanchez

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Hanni El Khatib’s blend of ’60s garage rock, soul, and blues is everything I like in music, boiled down to its absolute rawest minimum. “Build. Destroy. Rebuild” is the second blistering single off his upcoming album, Will the Guns Come Out, and is a ripping anthem about the destruction and resurrection of a city that channels the anger of young Jonathan Richman.

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Flying Lotus and the Infinity was like a team of jazz super heroes. The 10 member ensemble created a force that could save the world with its amazing sound. Their onstage chemistry at the Echoplex should be a blueprint for others to follow. —Chris Sanchez

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On the first night of their residency, We Are the Worlds’ presence at the Echo was nothing less than enchanting.

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Halloween Swim Team’s fury of musical spirits encompassed the Echo Curio crowd, possessing and blessing eustation tubes. —Chris Sanchez

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It’s best when someone like Mia Doi Todd is in love, as it fuels the nurturing instinct, and she pours her sweet stuff into songs of earth, morning bed touches, and world peace—her voice round as sunshine in a window turning from dark to light or light to dark—it’s sitting in the window staring at birds or the mailbox, very peaceful-like.

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