With the three surviving members of the Lovin’ Spoonful joining in — their first time onstage together in almost two decades — the Wild Honey Orchestra’s annual benefit concert Saturday was more than a mere celebration of the ’60s greats’ music. The sold-out crowd at the Alex Theatre felt the love.
Also on Friday: Mandy Moore, Steve Nieve, Lea DeLaria, Eric Johnson, Ski Mask the Slump God, Poison the Well, Trey Anastasio Band, Dopapod, Fauxtörhead, DOMi, Brandon Coleman, AJ Lambert, L.A. Drones, AJ Lambert, Russ Tolman, Outsider Matinee, This Uni, The Monochrome Pills, Trap Girl, The Great Refusal (fka High Life) and more
Enthrallingly intense and idiosyncratic, the Flesh Eaters’ punk poetry sounded as vital as ever in a hometown show in support of their new album, “I Used to Be Pretty,” the first release since 2001 from a band that has its roots in the first wave.
Jeff Tweedy and mates cycled through sounds as the songs cycled through life and the backdrop through seasons in Wilco’s expansive evening at the Theatre at Ace Hotel.
Also on Saturday: X Ambassadors, Born Ruffians, Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, Circa Survive, Squeeze, Beach Slang, Jewel, Lady Sinatra, TULIPS, Sarah Ault, Andra Day, King Washington, Wages
You could hardly have found a better way to nod to Cinco de Mayo than spend an evening with East L.A.. legends Los Lobos. The Grammy winners played a career-spanning set as part of a benefit for PBS station KLCS on Tuesday night at downtown’s Regent Theater, where they were joined by roots-rock greats Dave […]
Hey, Saturday, nice to see you: ‣ Fitz & the Tantrums headline the Wiltern behind their sophomore album “More Than Just a Dream,” which came out in May. That’s the video for the single “More Than Just a Dream,” above. ‣ Scottish indie-rockers Frightened Rabbit rock the House of the Blues with a trio of […]
Incoming: Wolfmother, the Postal Service, Savages, Bastille, Davis Fetter, Futurebirds, PAPA, the Happy Hollows, NO, Candlebox, the 1975, Big Freedia, Hockey, Saint Motel, the Belle Brigade, Modest Mouse, Skylar Grey, No Age, Night Terrors of 1927, Glassjaw, Dan Wilson, Twin Shadow, Bauhaus, Rancid, Viva Pomona, International Pop Overthrow, the Cult, Courtney Love, Frightened Rabbit, Fitz […]
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, […]
Incoming: Dave Alvin, Tomahawk, Buke & Gase, French Horn Rebellion, Jake Shimabukuro, El Sportivo & the Blooz, Psychic Friend, Japanther, Marilyn Manson, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Indians, Zola Jesus, Camper Van Beethoven, Dead Meadow, Cold War Kids, Brandy, Coheed & Cambria, the Orwells, the White Buffalo, the Summer Set, Mark Kozelek, Salt Petal, […]
