It’s a fabulous Friday: ‣ We’ll start this Friday on the local tip: L.A. quartet the Hectors celebrate the release of their first album “Her Dark Majesty” [sample the wares here] at the Satellite, supported by Haunted Summer, TS & the Past Haunts and Spaceships. ‣ Partying with the mammals: Dan Deacon and Japanther team […]
Incoming: Rhye, Hands, Gavin Turek, Chief, 8mm, Low, DWNTWN, A-Trak, Fu Manchu, Dan Deacon, Japanther, Goo Goo Dolls, the Skatalites, Vacationer, Bobby McFerrin, Kopecky Family Band, NO, Phosphorescent, Soul Asylum, the Hectors, the Dan Band, Shlohmo, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, the Three O’Clock Above: That’s Phosphorescent’s video for “Song for Zula,” off the […]
The Hectors seem as if they come from three-generations-ago Silver Lake – their single “Cold Star” was one of the highlights of the “International Pop Overthrow: Vol. 9” compilation (2006), and the sweet “I Drove All the Way From Bridgeport to Make It With You” is on one of our 2007 mixtapes here somewhere. But […]
Final Monday of the month, here goes: ‣ Tapes ’n Tapes, the Minneapolis quartet who early this year released their third and best album, “Outside,” visit the Satellite to do a makeup show for the scotched Sunset Junction. It’s also the final night of Stone Darling residency, and while the show isn’t free (it’s a […]
Dig this: New York City four-piece the Dig – not to be confused with old ’90s faves Dig – named their band in honor of the movie “Dig,” the Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols documentary. (I know, that’s a lot of Digs in one sentence.) The Dig’s sometimes-atmospheric, always-hooky indie-rock only has a little bit in […]
[A bit of everything here: benefit shows, bands with new names and World Cup soccer:] The Airborne Toxic Event returns to the site of their very first show, the Echo, on May 25 for a charity gig for the Neda Project – an Amnesty International-related effort named for Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian woman who was […]
[Happy birthday to Jimmy Chamberlin, wherever he’s drumming …] Toronto’s Constantines [pictured], now in their 10th year (yes, it’s true), hit town for a show at the Echo with a couple of lively supporting acts – Long Beach’s Crystal Antlers, with whom you are probably familiar, and Norwegian psych-poppers I Was a King, with whom […]
[Birthday cheers go out to Art Alexakis (on Sunday) and to brother of Buzz Bands, Aaron (today). Have some fun, guys …] Tonight: It’s another busy Friday for shows big (Leonard Cohen, first of two nights at the Nokia Theatre) and small (Seasons celebrating the release of its “Spring” EP at the Echo, along with […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Lou Reed, Chris Martin and Jon Bon Jovi. Now that’s a trio …] This month’s residencies start in a big way: At Spaceland, where Nico Stai has the headlining slot, Hesta Prynn (pictured, of Northern State) gets the ball rolling early [Download: “Seven Sisters”]. Pop Noir and Eastern Conference […]
[Birthdays wishes go out to Robin Zander … now, if making through this weekend’s concert schedule were only a cheap trick:] Today: Chris Pierce [pictured] has been spreading his feel-good R&B around his native Los Angeles since he was a teenager, and the young soul man has amassed enough devotees that he has the headlining […]
