The Twilight Singers gave a taut, powerful performance on Wednesday night at the Music Box, with Greg Dulli and crew pounding through a set that featured a cameo by Mark Lanegan and included material from their latest album “Dynamite Steps.” Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s opened, and L.A.’s Jonneine Zapata, fronting a trio, […]
‣ Prince is back for another weekend of shows at the Forum. ‣ Pianist Dustin O’Halloran, first spotted teaming up with Sara Lov in the dreampop duo Devics years back, plays the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery behind his new album “Lumiere.” He will be accompanied by a string ensemble, as well as visuals […]
Letting Up Despite Great Faults sneaked up on everybody in 2009 as Michael Lee’s bedroom-project-turned-pop-darlings, the band’s self-titled debut ranking as good as, or better than, myriad artists reviving the infectious synth-pop of the Sarah Records crew. Since then, Lee must have been pumping a lot of iron in that bedroom – Letting Up’s February […]
To hear the jangling swell of Fonda’s new song “Better Days,” you’d think another in the flood of this era’s shoegazing dreampop bands was announcing its arrival. Fact is, the Los Angeles quintet was mixing its fuzzy, Britpop-inspired concoctions around the time of the Y2K scare (remember that?), coaxing bittersweet gems out of an old […]
[Levon Helm, Stevie Nicks, Hank Williams Jr. and Lenny Kravitz all celebrate birthdays today … and one of them is listed below:] Happy Thursday: ‣ Stevie Nicks sings and blows out birthday candles at the Wiltern. ‣ Swedish indie-pop trio the Radio Dept. visit the Troubadour, with Therapies Son opening. ‣ Mia Doi Todd [see […]
Fool’s Gold, the sprawling collective whose genre-mashing 2009 debut fused dance-pop and Afro rhythms and spawned club hits sung in Hebrew, are back. Only this time they are leaner, and from the sound of things, possibly meaner. The band announced today that its their new album “Leave No Trace” would be out Aug. 16 on […]
The Icarus Line has been making music and mayhem for a decade now, surviving bumps and bruises and embracing the notion that rock ’n’ roll should be a bit reckless, if not downright dangerous. Except for a single released early last year, the band has been pretty silent since 2007’s rockin’ “Black Lives at the […]
Anybody who noticed Mia Doi Todd before her set Saturday at the Silver Lake Jubilee had to be taken by her calm. While a noisy dance-pop finished up its set on the Sunset Stage, Todd sat placidly on a folding chair in the backstage area, looking a wavy-haired Mona Lisa amid all the commotion. She […]
Walter Meego doesn’t get out much. And if you hear the Chicago expatriates’ new “Wondervalley,” you’ll wonder why they don’t. The album, the band’s second, is a synth-drenched popsicle that sounds almost glam when you turn it to 11. The album was recorded over six months in a house the band rented in the Mojave […]
Prince is doing three shows tonight at as-yet-unannounced locations, and here’s what else is up: ‣ The Twilight Singers visit the Music Box behind their fifth album (and first in five years), “Dynamite Steps.” Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s and Jonneine Zapata support. ‣ Austin quartet White Denim hits the Echo behind its […]
