A bit of Eskimomentum

Another manic Monday and Buzz Bands acolytes wake up without their musical guru, Kevin Bronson. Jeff Weiss is your guest blogger. He is not a guru of anything. However, he really used to like Guru from Gangstarr.

With spring temporarily delayed by weather in the 60s and a skyline filled with gloomy gray clouds, the music of Eskimohunter seems to make a lot more sense. Buried in a miasma of swirling ice and wind, Eskimohunter's songs twist and wail, beautiful ethereal fragments frozen inside a cold wall of noise.

Using shoegaze progenitors My Bloody Valentine and Spiritualized as jumping-off points, Eskimohunter's gauzy drone rock fits in nicely on your iTunes next to early Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Autolux. With a new EP on local bedroom label So Sweet Records (also the home of recent Midnight Movies and Monsters are Waiting 7"s), Eskimohunter's revamped lineup has been garnering buzz in the local blogosphere of late.

Originally formed in 2002 by the oddly-named Jason71, the band's gestation has been slow, as they've yet to release a full-length LP (though the early EPs managed to get the band some attention on college radio and licensing from MTV for an episode of "Real World/Road Rules Challenge"). They play their first show in months tonight at Safari Sam's with fellow shoegazers Sonic Boom (a group featuring Spacemen 3 founder Peter Kember), and it promises to be one of the best shows of the season for fans of spacey, trippy nods.

Listen to Eskimohunter on Myspace

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Touts for Monday, April 9

Recent buzz band profilees The Minor Canon continue their Monday-night residency at Spaceland, playing songs off their excellent record No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. The Echo presents its best Monday night lineup of the month as The Black Pine are joined by up-and-coming psych-rockers The Stevenson Ranch Davidians and the promising Hearts of Palm U.K. Over at Silverlake lounge, Wires on Fire will burn down the house, and in the O.C. at the Detroit Bar, Deep Sea Diver continue their April residency.

Backpack rapper Talib Kweli headlines at the House of Blues Anaheim, while presidents of the Las Vegas chapter of the Bruce Springsteen fan club The Killers headline the Staples Center. At the Hotel Cafe, country-tinged singer/songwriter Tim Jones leads a night that includes Brian Wright and the Waco Tragedies.