Stream: The Parson Red Heads, ‘All I Wanted’ and ‘Turn Around’
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Portland folk-rockers the Parson Red Heads return in November with their fifth album “Lifetime of Comedy.”
Portland folk-rockers the Parson Red Heads return in November with their fifth album “Lifetime of Comedy.”
Portland’s The Parson Red Heads, onetime scene faves during the five years they lived in L.A., release their fourth album, “Blurred Harmony,” in June. It’s a big album.
Your Sunday shows: ‣ Ben Lee heads up a lineup of 20-plus artists from Australia – most of them in the U.S. en route to doing showcases at the South by Southwest Music Festival – at the annual Aussie BBQ LA that starts at 2 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater and Bar. Also on board […]
Incoming: Glasvegas, Howler, Run River North, Lucinda Williams, Moses Sumney, James Supercave, DA & the Jones, the Colourist, Fuel, Social Studies, Nacosta, Tosca, Leslie & the Lys, PAPA, the Wild Feathers, Skinny Puppy, 311, the Ataris, Gary Numan, Wild Beasts, Typhoon, the Casket Girls, San Fermin, Four Tet, JD Samson & Men, Nick Waterhouse, HIM, […]
Long before the current revival of hippy-dippy collectivism, the Parson Red Heads were breathing new life into the spirit of the 1960s. It was 2006, and a group of Oregon transplants and their new L.A. friends – typically dressed in all-white and sometimes packing as many as a dozen people onstage at places like Spaceland […]
‣ Australian rockers Atlas Genius do it up right at the Wiltern, where they are joined by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the Detroit band who last month released their sophomore album “The Speed of Things.” That’s their video for “If You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t On The Dancefloor),” above. ‣ Blink-182 bring their […]
Incoming: Desaparecidos, Charli XCX, Deerhoof, Diego Garcia, Geographer, Teen Daze, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Bolts, the Lonely Forest, Destroyer, Meat Puppets, Switchfoot, Atlas Genius, Blink 182, Selena Gomez, the Parson Red Heads, Blitzen Trapper, Crocodiles, Mazzy Star, the Gaslamp Killer, Those Darlins, Tired Pony, the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Jonathan Wilson, GZA, the Lonely […]
Lots of things have happened for the Parson Red Heads in the last few years. They made the trek from Los Angeles to their native Oregon, settling in Portland,; they released the lovely album “Yearling;” and the band’s married couple Evan and Brette Marie Way had a baby boy. Even with a baby in tow, […]
A little over two years has passed since Los Angeles parted ways with the Parson Red Heads, but even after they returned to their hometown Portland, Ore., the warmth of their melodies has stayed within the L.A. community. With last year’s release of “Yearling,” they’ve offered more of their sunny psychedelic folk-pop tunes for us […]
One more cycle of 365 days and it will roughly be seven years since the Parson Red Heads first moved from Portland, Ore., to City of Angels. Of course, we were sad to see them go when they decided to return to their original hometown last year, but the folk group, which centered around husband […]