FRIDAY, APRIL 6: I can honestly say that Devon Williams is perhaps the only performing musician in L.A. I make an effort to see whenever I get the chance—I think I’ve seen him perform about once a month for a year, and I look forward to it. It’s never boring—always magnetic. And the music is great, too. Devon writes sparkly pop songs with melodies I actually like having stuck in my head, and his back-up band, the Allen Bleyle 3, releases (or holds down—I can’t tell which) a spellbinding spark of pure rock chaos that seems to hang in the balance between complete disintegration and music that locks together so well it becomes transcendent, like double-fisting the Church and Crazy Horse. And they all tell plenty of funny jokes on stage, too. (KH)
WITH JEREMY JAY AND MARIA AT THE SMELL, 247 S. MAIN ST., LOS ANGELES. 9 PM / $5 / ALL AGES. WWW.THESMELL.ORG.
1 la-underground // Apr 6, 2007 at 6:39 pm
he’s brilliant.
2 the echo and echoplex » Saturday 07.19.08: DEVON WILLIAMS / RESIDUAL ECHOES / SILVER DAGGERS / THE MONA REELS / OF AIRES // Jun 25, 2008 at 5:29 pm
[...] I can honestly say that Devon Williams is perhaps the only performing musician in L.A. I make an effort to see whenever I get the chance—I think I’ve seen him perform about once a month for a year, and I look forward to it. It’s never boring—always magnetic. And the music is great, too. Devon writes sparkly pop songs with melodies I actually like having stuck in my head, and his back-up band, the Allen Bleyle 3, releases (or holds down—I can’t tell which) a spellbinding spark of pure rock chaos that seems to hang in the balance between complete disintegration and music that locks together so well it becomes transcendent, like double-fisting the Church and Crazy Horse. And they all tell plenty of funny jokes on stage, too. (KH) – LA Record [...]
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