By Michael Bauer The Smell crew invaded the Echo on Thursday night and converted the Echo Park indie-rock club into a packed and sweaty house party. The crowd at the all-ages show was noticeably more energetic than any crowd in recent memory. (Formula: All-ages shows = more energy. More energy = more fun. More fun […]
By Monica Alvarez The Bird and the Bee, Melanoid, Stacy Clark and DJ Rob TV helped promoter Dennis Lluy re-open the doors of the historic Yost Theatre in downtown Santa Ana last night.” The bands played to an enthusiastic and young crowd that filled the room. In the past, the theater showcased Mexican cinema and […]
Meet John Wood. He’s Learning Music. He’s 27, a profilic composer, a whiz-bang keyboardist, almost stupefyingly ambitious and, when it comes to making music, a communalist, if not a communist. He’s performed shows with as many as 15 or 20 musicians onstage without the benefit of rehearsals. And he’s ready to start his second season […]
[Quite a weekend we have in store musically, assuming, that is, that you and I aren’t on the invite list for Josh Groban’s birthday party:] Friday: Everest is back; the L.A. quintet brings its vivid Americana to the Echo (with the Parson Redheads and Two Sheds) at the beginning of a West Coast swing that […]
No official word yet from the headliner’s camp, but I hear Morrissey has taken ill, forcing cancellation of the first four dates of a nationwide tour that was to begin Saturday in Florida. The missed dates will not only disappoint Moz fans, eager to hear the songs from his new album, “Years of Refusal,” but […]
The new video for the Cold War Kids track “I’ve Seen Enough,” directed by Vern Moen, weaves in-studio footage from the making of their album “Loyalty to Loyalty” with images from the Long Beach quartet’s travels and glimpses of bassist/artist Matt Maust’s typographic treatments of the lyrics. Cold War Kids play the Orpheum on March […]
[Here’s the intro to my story in today’s LA Weekly on the rock ‘n’ roll novel “Rock Bottom.” Can’t wait to see the Blood Orphans …] You’ve heard the Blood Orphans’ story before, right? The band broke big out of Silver Lake a few years back, thrilling the hipsters at Spaceland with their high-energy, sweat-stained […]
[Belated greetings to John Doe, who celebrated a birthday on Wednesday and lent his voice to the Scott Walker tribute at Bordello. Emcee Michael Des Barres even led the crowd in singing “Happy Birthday.” And kudos to Ann Magnuson for bringing down the house with her rendition of Jacques Brel’s “Au Suivant.”] All seems to […]
[The Airborne Toxic Event’s show postponements due to singer Mikel Jollett’s laryngitis have wreaked havoc in the camp of tourmates the Henry Clay People. But …] I woke up in Denver at 4:30 this morning with a blinking phone and a text: “You’re at the part of the Muppet movie when it seems like all […]
Former Catherine Wheel frontman Rob Dickinson is well-versed in Scott Walker, the ’60s-idol-turned-recluse-turned-avante-garde-musician who is the subject of the documentary movie “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man” and of tonight’s “A Tribute to Scott Walker” at the L.A. club Bordello. But Dickinson – one of the performers at the tribute – is not surprised Walker has […]
