Also on Thursday: Mapache, Frances Quinlan, Dance Gavin Dance, Eric Nam, Avi Kaplan, Dan Deacon, Pussy Riot, Patrick Sweany, Little Jesus, Knuckle Puck, Emmit James, Jack Symes, Spencer Sutherland, Blanks, Dry Cleaning, the Makeout Club
Back for their first proper L.A. show since 2012, NYC dance-punk band the Rapture was showered with adulation Tuesday night at the El Rey. Frontman Luke Jenner returned the love by handing out roses to fans.
Also on Wednesday: Tamino, Glass Animals, Blackwater Holylight, Slow Hollows, Shopping, Red Baraat, Polyplastic, Neoma, Dirtycakes, Asi Fui, the Bash Dogs, Little Jesus, White Tar
Also on Tuesday: Noah Cyrus, Cult of Luna, Asgeir, Whispertown, Giant Waste of Man, 27, Mr. Elevator, Oriah, Between Kings, Lawrence Qualls, Chance Peña
Incoming: Refused, the Jacks, Tame Impala, Keane, Cult of Luna, the Rapture, Asgeir, Tamino, Soul Asylum, Blackwater Holylight, Glass Animals, Shopping, Red Baraat, Prince Royce, Dance Gavin Dance, Delta Spirit, Eric Nam, Rhys Langston, Dan Deacon, Pussy Riot, Chris Lake, Yves Tumor, Hayley Kiyoko, 12th Planet, the Strokes, Burgerama, Marc E. Bassy, Kim Shattuck Celebration, Trippie Redd and many more
Yeah Yeahs Yeahs, Phoenix cap a day dominated by Coachella veterans at the first Just Like Heaven Festival, an unfussy affair that mercifully put the music first.
A new festival, the Goldenvoice-propmoted Just Like Heaven, debut May 4 at the Queen Mary Events Park in Long Beach.
Thursday’s throng: ‣ Glen Campbell’s final tour brings him to Club Nokia. The 75-year-old songsmith recently released an acclaimed new album, “Ghost on the Canvas,” and opening tonight will be the band featuring two of his kids, Instant People. ‣ Filter’s Culture Collide festival kicks off in Echo Park with five shows [full schedule/set times, […]
[New tracks from artists we haven’t heard from a while, give or take three, four or five years…] The Rapture, “How Deep Is Your Love” ”“”“ NYC’s the Rapture has put their fans through a very slow wait; it’s taken them five years to put out a new album. Their forthcoming album, “In The Grace […]
It was easier to get hip than hydrated at Saturday’s steamy FYF Fest at downtown’s Los Angeles State Historic Park. The star of the much-ballyhooed conflagration of niche artists seemed to Logistical Problems. Thirty minutes to get a $4 bottle of water? Forty-five minutes to grab a quesadilla? Ninety minutes just to get in? Welcome […]
