Magic Giants host weekend 2 of their Live from Quarantine festival fundraising for health workers. Alex Ebert, LP, Lauren Ruth Ward, Mondo Cozmo and more will play.
While Lady Gaga repeated last week’s Coachella set, Bon Iver was full of surprises on Weekend 2— including guests Jenny Lewis, Bruce Hornsby, NAO and Amelia Meath.
Incoming: Deerhoof, Dirty Loops, Dorothy, Wartime Recitals, Brooklyn Pets, Smallpools, Tegan and Sara, Real Estate, Hoodie Allen, Goapele, Sam Outlaw, X Ambassadors, Culture Club, the 1975, Mr. Little Jeans, the Weeks, Bell Gardens, Cold Specks, Rhett Miller, Bastille, Sky Ferreira, Capital Cities, James Vincent McMorrow, Future Islands, Alexz Johnson, Cold War Kids, Gruff Rhys, Death […]
Kind of a legendary Sunday, right? ‣ Paul McCartney plays Dodger Stadium for the first time he appeared there with the Beatles in 1966. (That Beatles’ set, one of the Fab Four’s last concerts, was 30 minutes long on Aug. 28, 1966; McCarntey has promised tonight’s would be, ahem, longer.) ‣ Amazing lineup at the […]
Tuesday’s concert options: ‣ The Head and the Heart, who played a sold-out show at the Wiltern last week, return to the venue for another date tonight behind their new album “Let’s Be Still.” ‣ Dam-Funk and Snoopzilla celebrate their album release at Exchange LA. ‣ San Diego folk-rockers the Silent Comedy headline the Troubadour, supported […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ Night 1 of the 24th annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas goes off at the Shrine Auditorium, with Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, AFI, Arctic Monkeys, Cage the Elephant, Grouplove, Foals and New Politics. ‣ Seattle folk-rockers the Head and the Heart headline the Wiltern behind their new […]
Who: The Head and the Heart in the Mojave Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Amiable.
Welcome to the Thursday Roundup. I call it that for no other reason than just because I can. ‣Ahhh, Foo Fighters at the Forum with Cage the Elephant and Mariachi El Bronx. Really don’t need to say much about this, do I? Do I? Just look at them… ‣Mercury Prize winners in 2010 for album of the […]
There haven’t been many rags-to-riches stories in recent years like Seattle’s the Head and the Heart. They’ve gone from playing open-mic nights and selling 10,000 copies of their self-released, self-titled debut by word-of-mouth during 2009 to joining Sub Pop’s roster and premiering their latest single, “Lost in My Mind,” on national television last week. The […]
Big week ahead for shows, starting tonight: ‣ The Airborne Toxic Event, the L.A. quintet that broke big out of Silver Lake in 2008 and went on to sell 208,000 copies of its debut album, brings it back home this week. The band, whose sophomore album “All At Once” comes out Tuesday, starts a week […]
