Sample a song from Grandaddy’s 20th anniversary companion to “The Sophtware Slump;” also, stream Inside Lands, Dawes, John Vanderslice, Zane Carney, Lauren Ruth Ward, Polartropica and more.
Built to Spill will perform its1999 album “Keep It Like a Secret” in its entirety at FYF Fest. Grandaddy has canceled its appearance.
A fundraising campaign is under way to benefit the family of Grandaddy bassist Kevin Garcia, who died last week of a stroke.
FYF Fest features a lineup topped by Nine Inch Nails, Bjork, Missy Elliott and Frank Ocean. It goes off July 21-23 this year at Expo Park.
Grandaddy’s two new songs are their first in a decade, and an album is in the works for Danger Mouse’s 30th Century Records.
More than five years after their uneasy parting of the ways, Grandaddy has returned to the stage, and on Monday night at the Fonda Theatre it felt like a triumph – even if the man who closed up shop, songwriter Jason Lytle, sounded a bit tentative about the whole process. “So this getting back together […]
Way too much for a Monday: ‣ The Kills come back around behind last year’s album “Blood Pressures,” but the duo of Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have another kind of release on the way too – a hardcover photo book titled “Dream and Drive” by band documentarian Kenneth Cappello, who culled the selections from […]
Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Rock the Bells, Grandaddy, the Kills, Alabama Shakes, Michael Kiwanuka, Dead Can Dance, Regina Spektor, Peter Murphy, Neil Diamond, Amadou & Miriam, HoneyHoney, the Henry Clay People, Zola Jesus, Fun., Filter and more. Above: Peter Murphy, the 55-year-old “Godfather of Goth,” recently told the Sunset Strip Music Festival blog that […]
Seems as if two or three generations of Silver Lake musicians have come and gone since the neighborhood last heard from Earlimart, one of the early (and most enduring, owing to the many bands who have recorded at Aaron Espinoza’s studio The Ship) denizens of the scene. Long known as torchbearers for the lush intimacy […]
We’d barely gotten ourselves prepped for the Grandaddy reunion show (Aug. 13 at the Fonda, with their Central Valley brethren Earlimart) than the news hit that Jason Lytle has a new album on the way. “Dept. of Disappearance” arrives Oct. 16 via Anti-, and the title track is signature Lytle – swirling electronics, whimsical lyrics […]
