Full-up Friday: ‣ Sea Wolf headlines the El Rey Theatre behind his new album “Old World Romance.” Savoir Adore opens. ‣ La Santa Cecilia and the Boogaloo Assassins team up at the free FIGat7th Downtown Festival. ‣ Wildcat! Wildcat!, In the Valley Below and MT. OSSA at the Echo ‣ The Church Sessions at the […]
Incoming: Camera Obscura, John Grant, Alice Smith, 3OH!3, Peter Tork, Pitbull, Mount Kimbie, Eleanor Friedberger, Kinks’ Tribute, Ida Maria, Kisses, Warships, Joseph Arthur, Vans Warped Tour, Steve Miller Band, Holy Folk, the Dig, Tilly & the Wall, Sea Wolf, La Santa Cecilia, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Jonathan Wilson, Bleu, the Game, Iris DeMent, […]
Who:Â Dam-Funk on the main stage In 3 or Fewer Words:Â Funky happy people. Memorable Because:Â It takes some gnarly keyboard manipulation into fooling you there is a guitar on stage when there’s not, but funk maestro Dam-Funk had a groove that was twice as heavy as his light crowd. Although, paired with positive messages in songs like […]
What a year. More than 140 Los Angeles-sired albums passed through the Buzz Bands LA headphones this year, not counting EPs, mixtapes and singles. Judging from the detritus at my desk – handwritten lists, stacks of CDs, press releases – and my unopened emails, there were a lot more out there. It came in all […]
Tonight in L.A.: Ariel Pink’s, the Black Keys, Robyn Hitchcock, the Big Pink, Zola Jesus, the Offspring, the Maccabees, the Helio Sequence, Dr. Dog, the Head & the Heart, She Wants Revenge, Jason Mraz
Our frantic Friday: ‣ Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti headlines the Fonda Theatre behind its new album “Mature Themes” (that’s the video for “Only in My Dreams,” above). Bodyguard and Dam-Funk support. ‣ Filter magazine’s Culture Collide continues at various venues in Echo Park, tonight’s lineup highlighted by the Big Pink, School of Seven Bells, Zola […]
Incoming: The Lumineers, Garbage, Justin Bieber, the Shins, Emmylou Harris, the Jezabels, Deerhoof, Wax Tailor, the Wombats, Conor Oberst, Kimbra, Father John Misty, Nick Lowe, Coheed & Cambria, Dr. Dog, Patrick Wolf, the Offspring, Jason Mraz, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, the Black Keys, the Head & the Heart, She Wants Revenge, the Maccabees, Of Montreal […]
Ariel Rosenberg has made a pop song. That seems to be what everybody was waiting for, right? For the mastermind of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti to get straight to the crates he’s been digging for more than a decade now? Ariel Pink’s widely praised 2010 album “Before Today,” while a musicologist’s wet dream, required an […]
Your Monday menu: ‣ U.K. R&B-pop outfit Graffiti6, who were a hit during last year’s Also I Like To Rock series, return to L.A. for a headlining show at the Troubadour. Labelmate Nick Hartman supports with R&B soul singer Yuna. ‣ JJAMZ‘s residency resumes at the Satellite. Chicago’s young buzzy band the Orwells [See “Mallrats […]
[Covers: Sometimes the songs don’t remain the same …] Harlan, “Dirty Laundry”– Few artists inhabit the late 1970s and early ’80s with such proficiency and zeal as Harlan, whose debut EP (and recent live shows, including the Echo residency, above) revealed him as a shredder/soul man who plays it so close to the vest you […]
By Seraphina Lotkhamnga Those in search of a hero who embodied legacy or inspirational innovation – or both – were offered a luxurious affair with Os Mutantes and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti on Thursday night. It was not only the last show of a 23-date co-headlining tour between two very different pioneering acts, but it […]
