Thursday’s fun: ‣ The free Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier says goodbye with its 10th and final show of 2014 – it features soul man Charles Bradley along with New Orleans’ King James & the Special Men. ‣ Swans and Carla Bozulich do a second night at the Roxy Theatre. ‣ Formidable rock […]
Far from trying to curate anything, or even connecting the present to the neighborhood’s rock ’n’ roll legacy, the Sunset Strip Music Festival last Saturday merely offered something for everybody. Fans responded with their pocketbooks and feet: The festival appeared more crowded that 2012’s Motley Crue-headlined party, although promoters put the attendance at the same […]
Your fantastic Friday: ‣ The Lonely Wild celebrates the release of their new album “The Sun As It Comes” (out April 2 via Ursa Major) at the Satellite tonight and they’ve got the Janks and the Wild Reeds to join in the fun. ‣ Intellectual electro-heads Fol Chen also celebrate the release of a new album. They’ll headline […]
Kicking off your weekend, the Friday fare: ‣ We don’t know if it will buy you a new life, but $30 will get you a ticket to tonight’s “Summerland” tour at the Greek Theatre, and probably some fond memories of 1990s radio. Everclear – that’s the band’s new (yes, new) video for “Be Careful What […]
Omniflux arrived on our radar with a bang in October with the brooding “Boy Caught in a Dress,” and the solo incarnation of Mahsa Zargaran figures to stay there if she keeps churning out singles like her new “She and Him.” Zargaran, a classically trained pianist known in local rock circles as the drummer for […]
New year, new month, new free residencies: ‣ L.A. quartet Chasing Kings, their debut album “Nice Guys” on the way in March, hold forth at the Satellite, supported on opening night by Toy Bombs, Cassorla and Brendan Hines. ‣ Bootleg Theater residents Princeton have new music coming too – the quartet’s sophomore album “Remembrance of […]
Mahsa Zargaran can be all sticks and fury when she’s banging the skins for L.A. rockers Sabrosa Purr and Big Black Delta, but the Iranian-born multi-instrumentalist is not just a little drummer girl. Zargaran is classically trained pianist – and, in her solo project Omniflux, a sculptor of brooding art-rock that fans of PJ Harvey […]
‣Best Bang For Your Buck Award goes to: Taylor Locke & the Roughs along with Sabrosa Purr and Miracle Parade at Bootleg Bar. It also gets my vote for the sexiest rock show of the night and, yes, I’m talking about the music and the musicians. ‣Aussie-to-L.A. seems to be a running theme this week. […]
Your pre-Carmageddon options: ‣ Talk to the animals? How about singing to them? Hands (pictured) and Abe Vigoda head up an eight-band lineup tonight for Music in the Zoo: Local Scene Night at the L.A. Zoo. The show is something of an open house-meets-picnic at the zoo, with the evening featuring two bands apiece on […]
When worlds collide? The FYF Fest and the Sunset Strip Music Festival each will announce their lineups on Wednesday, and the rumor mill is churning with names. Let’s put our ears to the ground: ‣ Even without having announced a lineup, FYF had a $30 presale on Tuesday and sold out of that allotment. Regular […]
