Here’s what’s ahead on Saturday: ‣ This year’s first edition Chinatown Summer Nights celebrates Chinatown’s 75th anniversary, with Nightmare & the Cat headlining the LA Weekly Local Music Stage (at 11 p.m.). The event kicks off at 5 p.m., and a statue of Bruce Lee will be dedicated at 7:45. The live music lineup features […]
Here’s your huge Friday: ‣ Barry Manilow does the first of three nights at the Greek Theatre. ‣ Remember the year 2000 and how great the Dandy Warhols’ “Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia” was? They’re performing that album, which just got the deluxe release treatment, tonight at the Wiltern. at the Wiltern ‣ Now ensconced […]
Incoming: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bjork, the 88, Radar Bros., Parson Red Heads, Snowden, Caifanes, Tijuana No, Beth Orton, Fall Out Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Alkaline Trio, Emily Wells, Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Barry Manilow, the Dandy Warhols, CSS, Cold Cave, Ozma, Nightmare & the Cat, Robert DeLong, Robert Earl Keen, the Bats, Peter […]
Another massive night of Coachella “sandwich” shows, and some other gems: ‣ Wild Flag, the all-star quartet featuring Carrie Brownstein [pictured] and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) along with Mary Timony (Helium) and Rebecca Cole (the Minders), was one of our Week 1 Coachella highlights. They join two other artists playing the two weekends in the desert, […]
[Here’s our long-delayed wrap-up on October’s Culture Collide fest:] Last month’s second annual Culture Collide festival staged by Filter found the chewy center for two groups of music fans – sonic explorers bent on discovering new bands, and expatriates of the 24 nations represented by the bands playing the neighborhoody, eight-venue event in Echo Park. […]
‣ Filter’s Culture Collide festival winds up today with the Toyota Antics Block Party, an free afternoon/evening affair that features music on two outdoors stages (on Reservoir Street in Echo Park, between Sunset and Alvarado) and one indoor (at Taix). Brazil’s CSS and NYC’s Gang Gang Dance headline the two outdoor stages, which also feature […]
‣ Filter’s Culture Collide festival continues at various locales in Echo Park (be sure to check at one of the info tables for set time/venue changes), and today’s menu of imported music is highlighted by Brazil’s CSS, Canada’s Young Liars, the U.K.’s Harvey and Isobel Campbell, the Netherlands’ Death Letters and Australia’s Cameras (that’s their […]
Echo Park goes global for four days beginning Thursday, Oct. 6, when the Culture Collide festival returns for a second year, bringing artists from 24 countries to eight venues – and, on Sunday, to a three-stage street fair. The festival, the brainchild of the magazine/marketing firm Filter, will be highlighted by two performances by Brazil’s […]
[Just because you’re steering clear of freeways during Carmageddon, doesn’t mean you have to sit still at home. Grab these fresh new remixes to keep your summer parties going…] CSS, “Hits Me Like a Rock (Dillon Francis Remix)” – Cansei de Ser Sexy, aka CSS, will be back with a brand new album titled “La […]
The third and final day of Coachella 2011 was a blur of electro, rock, rap, pop and folk. Indefatigable photographer Scott Dudelson did his usual stage-hopping and offers these glimpses.
