With their highly anticipated sophomore album “Cosmic Egg” coming Oct. 13, Australian rockers Wolfmother played a surprise show Wednesday night at the Roxy. Check out my review at SPIN.com.
[Happy birthday, Tony Kanal. As for you, Los Angeles: My, what a big show list you have …] Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band, who were gorgeous in the summer evening air at Sunset Junction, hang around town for another show, tonight’s at the Echoplex, rather curiously billed with Swedish rockers Dungen. … Fresh […]
For a light lunch, it was pretty heavy. The Dead Weather kicked off the opening of Third Man Records and Novelties West Pop-Up store by playing a 25-minute set Wednesday afternoon to a capacity crowd of about 600 at downtown’s Regent Theatre. It was just a six-song taste off the band’s album “Horehound,” but even […]
The Third Man Records and Novelties West Pop-Up Shop – a store that sells all things Jack White – opens this morning at 448 S. Main St., and the Dead Weather themselves are scheduled to play at noon. Fans were camping out Tuesday evening to get into the free show. Not sure how the space […]
A busy night just got busier – Australian rockers Wolfmother are playing a surprise show [update: at 6 p.m.] at the Roxy. It’s for Yahoo! Music, and Andrew Stockdale [pictured] and his (new) bandmates, who teased L.A. audiences with a show back in April at the Natural History Museum and who crashed last weekend’s Sunset […]
Must be something about the El Rey Theatre. At Friday’s funfest with Los Campesinos!, vocalist Aleksandra Campesinos sounded like somebody had taken sandpaper to her pipes. And then Monday, Friendly Fires’ triumphant return to L.A. was threatened by the overextended voice of frontman Ed Mcfarlane. “Sorry if I sound like I swallowed a frog,” he […]
[One in a series on new music from L.A. environs:] Mellowdrone has spent the past couple of years picking up the pieces – after its promising 2006 debut “Box,” the band was dropped by Columbia and a couple of members fell by the wayside, leaving the core duo of Jonathan Bates [pictured] and Tony DeMatteo […]
[Birthday greetings go out to Jeff Tweedy today. In L.A. tonight, I’m not sure many music fans will be staying at home …] You probably already know about all the big deals –Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Forum; the Dead Weather at the Wiltern;” Steely Dan’s all-request night at the Gibson Amphitheatre; Tom Jones […]
Arrested Development was arresting, the Sonics showed fans the original garage rock, Fool’s Gold was fabulous, and Morris Day, er, took his time – those were some of the memorable moments from Sunday’s second day of Sunset Junction. Photographer Laurie Scavo sends along these images:
[Note: My site’s gallery function seems to be glitchy. You can still click through these great images, but you might randomly see photos from previous posts show up in the gallery. We have our best people working on it …] Crowds were noticeably thinner this year at the Sunset Junction Street Fair – I heard […]
