The beers were flavorful, and the indie-rock was tasty – all that was missing from the first Hollywood Brew Fest on Saturday at the Fonda Theatre was a good crowd. The event went flat under a sparse turnout, despite a formidable beer menu and a reasonable-for-an-event-of-its-kind ticket price of $45 (which got you unlimited tastings […]
Them Crooked Vultures – nice backgrounder on them in this morning’s L.A. Times – have sprung a surprise show on the Sunset Strip, and on the eve of their album release. The trio of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones will play the Roxy tonight; tickets at the door only, and there are […]
In her persona as Dee Dee, guitar-slinging frontwoman of SoCal garage-rockers Dum Dum Girls, Kristin Gundred has gotten in touch with that little girl who used to sing along to pop classics. “I’ve always been a fan of more straightforward pop music, and of all the oldies,” she says. “I probably know all the songs […]
[Here’s our weekly Stolen Lyric:] ||| Source: Julian Plenti, “Only If You Run” ||| Live: Julian Plenti, the solo project of Interpol’s Paul Banks, performs Thursday at the El Rey Theatre.
[Birthday wishes to Butch Walker on Saturday. … Here’s what’s on my weekend radar, for one reason or another – for a more comprehensive list, please visit Duke at You Set the Scene:] Tonight: It’s Week 2 of Julian Casablancas’ flashy residency at the Downtown Palace Theatre, and when I saw the opener last week […]
Craft beer meets locally crafted indie rock on Saturday at the first Hollywood Brew Fest – and it’s a good day to forget you ever took that big swig of PBR. The Brew Fest, which runs from 3 to 11 p.m. at the Fonda Theatre and the adjacent Blue Palms Brewhouse, offers unlimited tastings from […]
[Happy birthday to Neil Young. Happy show-going to you, on a busy Thursday night:] The lineup of the night is surely at the Echoplex, where shoegazey psych-rockers Dead Meadow headline. Imaad Wasif and the Growlers – each of whom recently released new albums – support, as does Useless Keys, who are finishing up new recordings […]
As Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz wends his way toward Los Angeles on his Pablove Across America bicycle trek, plans are in place for the big final bash – a benefit concert on Nov. 21 at the Avalon. This week, Band of Horses and Sea Wolf were added to a lineup that already included the […]
Hadn’t heard much from Blacklist since I caught the NYC quartet’s fairly gripping set at SXSW – until this past week, when the band’s West Coast debut was announced. The foursome’s revivalist post-punk will make you want to bust out your black; it’s urgent and shadowy and Goth to the core. I had overlooked (shame […]
When OK Go, makes a video, you pay attention. So in the interests of what-are-these-dudes=up-to-now?, I give you the video for the quartet’s new single “WTF,” which despite its vivid color palette makes me more than a little bit queasy. The song points to an electro-funk direction for the quartet’s third album, “Of the Blue […]
