Your Sunday show options: ‣ The second day of Viva Pomona goes off at the Glass House with a great lineup highlighted by the Thee Oh Sees, Crystal Antlers [pictured], Fuzz, the Vim Dicta, the Dead Ships, Chicano Batman, the Lovely Bad Things and GRMLN, along with Terry Malts, Summer Vacation, Sea Lions and more. […]
Incoming: Wil-Dog Abers & Jarell Perry, LA Font, Hi Ho Silver Oh, Made in Heights, Corners, Island Apollo, the Polyphonic Spree, the Album Leaf, Mosco Rosco, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Kongos, Boz Scaggs, LP, Kid Rock, the Ruse, Pennywise, Yuna, Robert Francis, Crash, Loudon Wainwright III, Bad Religion, the […]
Wow, what a Thursday: ‣ The summer’s Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier winds up with a performance by the legendary Jimmy Cliff, along with the Delirians and Ethan Tucker. It certainly won’t the final party of the yer at the Pier – not with next weekend’s The Beach Ball festival and the […]
Incoming: Pixies, Meg Myers, Together Pangea, Austra, Ariana Grande, OneRepublic, Minus the Bear, MGMT, Julia Holter, the Mission UK, AFI, Boz Scaggs, ON AN ON, Meiko, St. Lucia, the Zombies, Jonathan Rice, Jimmy Cliff, Dave Stewart, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Body/Head, Titus Andronicus, AlunaGeorge, the Jacksons, Local Natives, Jose James, Morgan Page, Matt Wertz, Alice in […]
L.A. duo No Age, whose new album “Object” is on the way Aug. 13 from Sub Pop, is among a formidable lineup of artists playing the Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier this summer. The free shows, at 7 p.m. on most Thursdays starting July 11, will also feature Jimmy Cliff, Meshell Ndegeocello, […]
Your show selections for Wednesday: ‣ New York duo the Hundred in the Hands (that’s Jason Friedman and Eleanore Everdell, above) bring the dark, arty electro on their recent Warp Records release “Red Night” to the Echo. You can check out “Faded” here. The One AM Radio supports. ‣ U.K. pop group Mystery Jets [here’s […]
Contributor Scott Dudelson shares images from all over Friday’s first day of Coachella 2012, including some stages that conflicts prevented us from attending. Oh, the tough choices here. Concert photography by Scott Dudelson
If the hint dropped on Coachella’s Twitter feed is to be believed, the lineup for this year’s double-your-fun festival – it’s two weekends, April 13-15 and April 20-22 – will be announced this week. Organizers tweeted the image at left on Friday, while continuing, ostensibly, to tease some of acts by posting artist videos on […]
The name of KCRW’s holiday benefit show posed the so-rhetorical-it’s-silly question “Are Friends Eclectic? Gee, waddya think? You’d be hard-pressed to find the fare at Saturday’s four-plus-hour concert in the same time zone, let alone on the same spot on your FM dial. While “Eclectic’s” genial host, KCRW music director Jason Bentley, repeatedly marveled about […]
