Also on Friday: KAABOO Fest, Ty Segall, Mac DeMarco, Young Jesus, Gruff Rhys, Greg Laswell, Dancing Tongues, Marc Anthony, Phony Ppl, Quantic, Generacion Suicida, Caleb Hawley, Pop Will Eat Itself, SadGirl, CeeLo Green
Incoming: KAABOO Fest, Heart, Richard Marx, Elton John, Buddy, Torche, Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Mac DeMarco, Carrie Underwood, Allah Las, Xavier Rudd, Prophets of Rage, Brian Wilson, Explosions in the Sky, Nick Waterhouse, His Name Is Alive, John Mayer, Ex Hex, Lil Keed, Ty Segall, Quantic, CRX, Dancing Tongues, Jay Som, Gruff Rhys, Greg Laswell, Cake, Maren Morris, Adrian Belew, Millencolin, Morgxn, Café Tacvba, SUNN O))) and more
Also on Saturday: Company of Thieves, Greg Laswell, Wango Tango, the Dead Milkmen, Power Trip, Umm, the Honorary Title, Kid Cadaver, Souvenirs, Creation Factory, the Lonely Biscuits, Bahari, Evan + Zane, Digable Planets, Sammy Brue, the Knitts
Incoming: Paul Simon, EELS, Hinds, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Japandroids, the Struts, Steely Dan, JoJo, Mellowdrone, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, James Taylor, Okkervil River, Curtis Harding, Mating Ritual, Liz Phair, Buckcherry, Pink, the Dead Milkmen, Poolside, Tuxedo, Dr. Dog, Lord Huron, GZA, Calexico, Greg Laswell, Ray Lamontagne, Jonah Matranga
Here’s your Wednesday show lineup: ‣ Louisiana-bred indie-rockers Royal Teeth visit the Bootleg Bar – their album “Glow” came out last year on Dangerbird – with Blondfire and Chappo opening. (Blondfire’s debut full-length “Young Heart” came out this week.) ‣ Brooklyn indie-poppers St. Lucia headline the El Rey Theatre, supported by Conway. Above is Conway’s […]
Incoming: Spiritualized, Failure, Jessica Childress, Jarell Perry, Augustines, Band of Horses, Meg Myers, St. Lucia, Sylvan Esso, Royal Teeth, Pontiak, Mother Falcon, Greg Laswell, Hospitality, Blackbird Blackbird, Imagine Dragons, Touché Amoré, Breakestra, Biffy Ckyro, the Vivian Girls, Secret Chiefs 3, Peter Bradley Adams, Eagles of Death Metal, Falling in Reverse, Thao & the Get Down […]
Saying goodbye to the month of May: ‣ The “Church Sessions” at the First Unitarian Church (2938 W. 8th Street) kick off with a slate of Diego Garcia, Ryat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Aaron Embry. [See Tuesday’s post.] ‣ Jack White does a second night at the Wiltern. ‣ Active Child (pictured) winds up a month-long, […]
Greg Laswell may have packed up his gear and moved to New York, but he’s still got his SoCal roots. So it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise he’s recruited Hotel Cafe songbird Sara Bareilles to duet with him on his new single “Come Back Down.” Driving piano arpeggios, mighty vocals and tight harmonies […]
Last week I posted three cover songs by L.A. artists, and the wave continues: On his forthcoming “Covers” EP (due Oct. 6 on Vanguard), SoCal singer-songwriter Greg Laswell covers Kristin Hersh’s “Your Ghost,” the gorgeous spectre of a song that led off her “Hips and Makers” album some 15 long years ago. Now, I like […]
[Elliott Smith would have been 40 years old today. I think I will spend a meditative hour with “XO” this afternoon …] John Doe and the Sadies bring their collaboration to the Echoplex tonight behind “Country Club,” a new album of country covers (plus three Sadies’ compositions and one by Doe and Exene Cervenka). Jill […]
