A splendid show selection for your Friday: ‣ Big night at the FIGat7th Downtown Festival, which returns after the holiday weekend off with Akron/Family, Peaking Lights and Lonnie Holley doing a free show in the plaza. ‣ Hunter Hunted and Harriet team up with artist Gary Baseman at the Skirball Center’s “Into the Night: Secrets […]
Incoming: Future Bible Heroes, Todd Rundgren, Western Lows, Tokimonsta, the Webb Brothers, Amadou & Miram, Queen Latifah, Crash Kings, Yes, Surfer Blood, Inc., Ximena Sariñana, Incan Abraham, Olafur Arnalds, Portugal. The Man, Akron/Family, Hunter Hunted, Say Anything, Vieux Farka Touré, Young Dubliners, Las Cafeteras, Lightning in a Bottle festival Slightly Stoopid, Colbie Caillat, Psychedelic Furs, […]
Have a wonderful Wednesday: ‣Â Woodkid, originally scheduled to make his L.A. debut at the Luckman last November before Superstorm Sandy confounded his travel plans, brings his highly cinematic music to the Fonda Theatre. The musical persona of French director, graphic artist and songwriter Yoann Lemoine (who’s done video for a host of A-listers), Woodkid released […]
Incoming: Born Ruffians, Kurt Vile, the Parlotones, Laura Stevenson, Tom Odell, Joshua Radin, Jihae, Dave Stewart, Woodkid, Bleached, Akron/Family, Quantic, Meiko, Dead Sara, Yo La Tengo, Of Montreal, Pierce the Veil, Kate Nash, Pepper, Rhye, Tea Leaf Green, Cloud Cult, Face to Face, Tom Jones, Marina & the Diamonds, Jim James, Chrome Sparks, Zee Avi […]
Sunday’s select music menu: ‣ Coachella weekend two wraps up in Indio as Dre. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac’s hologram, At the Drive-In, Florence + the Machine, Justice and more headline in the desert. ‣ Meanwhile at Dillon’s Roadhouse, Akron/Family [that’s their video for “Cast a Net”], Here We Go Magic, the Entrance Band, Mini Mansions […]
Where to find the Wednesday warriors: ‣ Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Pete Yorn debuted with “Musicforthemorningafter.” The 36-year-old songwriter, who bounced back last year with a sharp self-titled album produced by Frank Black, hits Wiltern Theatre tonight and will mark the anniversary of his first album by playing it in its […]
Kid Cudi and Travie McCoy have been added to the lineup for the Sunset Strip Music Festival, which during its Aug. 26-28 run will be bookended by a Thursday evening Tribute to Slash at the House of Blues and a Saturday night headlining performance by the Smashing Pumpkins. The indoor-outdoor event, which features stages on […]
[Joel and Benji Madden celebrate their birthday today, on what apparently is a popular day to be born, judging from the number of reminders on my pesky my social networks. Can we just automate the huzzahs?] It’s not his birthday until Saturday, but tonight’s installment of Low End Theory at the Airliner is being called […]
[Fond birthday wishes go out to Edie Brickell this morning … now, for the rest of the going-out:] Ex-Lonesome Cowboys frontman Randy Weeks [pictured at left] just released a new album of his rootsy, good-natured pop, “Going My Way,” and the Austin-by-way-of-L.A. singer-songwriter celebrates with a show at the Mint. … Are these guys on […]
[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 […]
