Live Review: Health @ 9:30 Club — 12/18/19

Posted on 12/23/2019 by paivi in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, goth, HEALTH, Los Angeles, noise rock.

Health performs at 9:30 Club on Dec. 18, 2019. (Photos by Paivi Salonen; Words by Mickey McCarter)

When you see Los Angeles noise rockers HEALTH, you are both lifted up and smashed down. First, you hear the soaring, light vocals of frontman Jake Duzsik, who elevates your spirit, and then you see the massive, crushing synths of John Famiglietti, who beats you down in the very best way with a flip of his hair.

Drummer BJ Miller added melodic crashes that would alternatively knock you over or dissolve into ether, and thus HEALTH rumbled through a very good show at 9:30 Club recently.

Preview: Daughters and Health @ 9:30 Club, 12/18/19

Posted on 12/12/2019 by Parklifer in Preview and tagged 9:30 Club, California, Daughers, experimental rock, HEALTH, Los Angeles, noise rock, Rhode Island.

Health (Photo by Faith Crawford)

A whole lot of noise is coming to 9:30 Club on Wednesday, Dec. 18 — a whole lotta noise *rock* that is. Noise rockers Daughters and Health share a bill for us to get all contemplative yet dancey just a week before Christmas.

Snapshots: HEALTH @ Rock and Roll Hotel — 4/28/19

Posted on 05/02/2019 by paivi in Live Review and tagged goth, HEALTH, Los Angeles, noise rock, Rock and Roll Hotel.

Health performs at the Rock and Roll Hotel on April 28, 2019. (Photo by Paivi Salonen)

Noise trio Health recently released VOL4::Slaves of Fear, a new studio album, and the band arrived to perform their new songs at Rock and Roll Hotel recently. Paivi was there to shoot the show!

Preview: HEALTH @ Rock and Roll Hotel, 4/28/19

Posted on 04/19/2019 by Miyun Park in Preview and tagged California, EBM, goth, HEALTH, Los Angeles, noise rock, Rock and Roll Hotel, Youth Code.

HEALTH (Photo by Faith Crawford)

“Twitchy” and “groundbreaking,” LA-based noise rockers HEALTH bring their “moody violence over trap beats” to Rock and Roll Hotel on Sunday, April 28, in support of their new album, VOL4::Slaves of Fear.

Snapshots: HEALTH @ Cloak and Dagger Festival — 10/20/17

Posted on 10/30/2017 by paivi in Live Review and tagged Cloak and Dagger, Cloak and Dagger Festival, Dusk TIll Dawn, goth, HEALTH, Los Angeles, music festival, noise rock, synthpop.

Health perform at Cloak and Dagger Festival in Los Angeles on Oct. 20, 2017. (Photo by Paivi)

Parklife DC faves HEALTH gained a lot of attention with their recent cover of “Blue Monday” by New Order, which was used to soundtrack Atomic Blonde starring Charlize Theron over the summer. The fall finds the noise rock trio in good form indeed, and we were excited to see them perform at the Cloak and Dagger Festival in Los Angeles on Oct. 20.

Don’t Miss: Cloak and Dagger Festival – Dusk Till Dawn @ The Globe Theater + The Tower Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), 10/20-10/21/17

Posted on 10/19/2017 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Cloak and Dagger, Cold Cave, Cold Showers, Com Truise, dark wave, Drab Majesty, Dusk TIll Dawn, goth, HEALTH, KMFDM, Los Angeles, music festival, noise pop, ohGr, Poptone, She Wants Revenge, synthpop, The Globe Theatre, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Soft Moon, The Tower Theatre, TR/ST.

Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM performs at the State Theatre in Falls Church, Virginia, on Oct. 5, 2017. (Photo by Paivi)

If you’re in Los Angeles this weekend, you may well want to pop out to S. Broadway for some nights of dark pop at The Globe and The Tower Theatres on Friday and Saturday. That’s where you’ll find the Cloak and Dagger Festival – Dusk Till Dawn, featuring headliners The Jesus And Mary Chain, KMFDM, She Wants Revenge, Poptone, TR/ST, Com Truise, The Soft Moon, HEALTH, Cold Cave, and many more.

Music Park: Moogfest 2016 Pt. 2 (of 3) (Durham, NC) — 5/20/16

Posted on 05/26/2016 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Carolina Theatre, Durham, Gary Numan, Grimes, HEALTH, Moogfest, Moogfest 2016, Motorco Park, music festival, new wave, noise rock, synthesizer, synthpop.

Art pop diva Grimes sings at Moogfest 2016 in Durham, NC, on Friday, May 20, 2016.

The sun was shining in Durham, NC, last weekend, and Moogfest 2016 was well underway! There were shows to review at this, the premiere music festival dedicated to the synthesizer, and I hopped straight to reviewing them.

I spent a lot of my time at Moogfest around what I guess would be the north end of the central downtown area in Durham, as Motorco Music Hall and its adjoining Motorco Park hosted a lot of the most interesting shows on the agenda. And it was well situated near other bars and the best downtown barbecue restaurant, The Pit.

While at Motorco Park on Friday, May 20, for the second day of Moogfest, I was introduced to Los Angeles noise rock trio HEALTH.

“Wow,” I said when I saw them. “That guy is playing his synthesizer ON THE GROUND.”

Music Park: HEALTH @ Moogfest 2016 — 5/20/16

Posted on 05/26/2016 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Durham, goth rock, HEALTH, Los Angeles, Moogfest, Moogfest 2016, Motorco Park, music festival, noise rock, synthesizer, synthpop.

HEALTH perform at Motorco Park for Moogfest 2016 on May 20, 2016. (Photo by Mickey McCarter)

“Wow,” I said. “That guy is playing his synthesizer ON THE GROUND.”

And indeed John Famiglietti of HEALTH switched up from bass to synth, swinging the bass around to his back to swoop down on the synthesizer rig in front of him, laid flat on a plastic crate. As a man fond of big cinematic flourishes, he may have been the star player in this specific show by his band HEALTH, performing at the Motorco Park in Durham, NC, on Friday, May 20.

That’s not to say that John could do this show single-handedly! He was capably met, and balanced, by frontman Jake Duzsik, who sang in a manner occasionally evocative of New Order’s Barney Sumner and also played some dazzling guitar. Side by side, Jake and John present quite the team, effortlessly merging dynamic rock with sweeping electronics. (Drummer Benjamin Jared Miller was good as well!)

And so it was that Los Angeles noise rock trio HEALTH brought flair to Moogfest 2016.