Where to find the Wednesday warriors: ‣ Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Pete Yorn debuted with “Musicforthemorningafter.” The 36-year-old songwriter, who bounced back last year with a sharp self-titled album produced by Frank Black, hits Wiltern Theatre tonight and will mark the anniversary of his first album by playing it in its […]
Tonight’s top 4 reasons to grab an umbrella and go: ‣ It’s the live debut of Middle Brother – the collaboration between John McCauley of Deer Tick, Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes [see our post last week] – at the Troubadour as part of the big benefit for Invisible Children. […]
Tonight’s top 4 shows that won’t dent your holiday shopping budget (because they’re free): ‣ Tonight’s installment of Sweaters is local collective Black Iris’ holiday party, featuring the Dead Trees (pictured; they just released a 7-inch on the collective’s White Iris imprint) and El Sportivo, the side project of Foreign Born/Fool’s Gold guitar god Lewis […]
Top 5 embarrassments of musical riches on a Monday: ‣ The title of the new album by the Greenhornes’ is “★★★★.” That’s moxie. the Cincinnati garage rockers, fronted by Craig Fox and including Jack Lawrence (Dead Weather, Raconteurs) and Patrick Keeler (Raconteurs), hit the Troubadour tonight. ‣ The killer residency lined up by IAMSOUND Records […]
Their first single “Sky Mall” [see our July post] announced Sweaters as a band who could be just as fun on record as they are live (and they are that). Now the L.A. four-piece with a classic rock-on-a-bender aesthetic has followed that single up with “Can’t Stop Winning,” their first 7-inch for White Iris Records, […]
Three from a bunch of small shows we like tonight: ‣ Electro-poppers Death Kit, who recently performed live on a Gold Line train, headline the Silverlake Lounge. Because it’s humpday and we know a lot of girls named Jessica, we encourage you to download Death Kit’s latest single, “Jessica’s Twenties.” Standing Shadows open. ‣ Michael […]
Everything about the two songs on Sweaters’ new 7-inch single is familiar – the chord progression that launches “Sky Mall, the piano-powered rock ’n’ soul of “Investigations.” But it’s the uninhibited manner in which the L.A. four-piece – Jordan Benik, Max Sokolinski, Jordan Harkins and Joel Isaac Black – inhabits its classic rock influences that […]
[Brandon Flowers, 29 years old today. In an amazing coincidence, “Crossfire,” the first single from his forthcoming solo album, was released to iTunes today.] Top 3 ways to mark your official start of summer: ‣ London quartet Athlete (latest album “Black Swan,”) brings its lovely Britpop to the Troubadour. ‣ The lineup for tonight’s Week […]
Low-keying it this weekend? With big sold-out shows in abundance, it might be the way to go. Here are a handful of below-the-radar options: Benefits: Red Cortez, the VLA and the Bixby Knolls [pictured] – and art from musician types like Matt Maust (Cold War Kids), Joel Graves (Everest) and Nathan Warkentin (We Barbarians) – […]
[Salutations to birthday guy Carlos Santana today. Here’s what’s up tonight:] NYC shoegaze/jangle-pop quartet the Pains of Being Pure at Heart [pictured], who played great shows at SXSW and at Spaceland earlier this year, return to L.A. – fresh from the Pitchfork Music Festival – for an engagement at the Echo. … If you like […]
