Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT (performing “Oracular Spectacular”), Future Islands, M83, Empire of the Sun, Hot Chip, Caribou and the Walkmen top the lineup for this year’s Just Like Heaven festival, May 13 in Pasadena.
Super duo Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam have announced a new album, “I Had A Dream That You Were Mine.” Check out their first two singles, “A 1000 Times” and “In A Black Out.”
Former Walkmen lead singer Hamilton Leithauser is making music under his own name now, but Thursday night’s show at the Echo was hardly a solo performance. A backing band of eight other performers accompanied him in support of his new album “Black Hours,” an adventurous collection of moody and thoughtful songwriting. Leithauser’s set consisted of […]
Today’s going to be a scorcher, but there are plenty of shows to keep you cool: ‣ The Walkmen and Milo Greene do a second SoCal show together this week. This time they’re at the Observatory in Orange County. ‣ Canadian electronic band Austra [pictured above] brings their “dark wave” to the El Rey Theatre. […]
What a Wednesday: ‣ The Walkmen visit the Ford Amphitheatre behind their new album “Heaven,” the band’s sixth full-length. L.A. quintet Milo Greene opens. That’s the Walkmen’s video for “Heartbreaker,” above. ‣ On the other side of the 101, the Dave Matthews Band holds forth at the Hollywood Bowl. DMB’s first album in three years, […]
Incoming: My Morning Jacket, Dave Matthews Band, Fiona Apple, the Walkmen, Blondie, Silversun Pickups, the Vaccines, Robert Francis, Adam Ant, the Hives, Peter Murphy, Rascal Flatts, Lobsterfest, Joe Walsh, Pretty Lights, Poolside, Austra, Avicii, Brian Setzer Orchestra Above: My Morning Jacket hits the Wiltern for three nights starting Tuesday. That’s the video for the title […]
First, if you were an album getting played tonight, which one would you be? ‣ In advance of the annual Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven cookout in Pioneertown this weekend, David Lowery brings both of his bands to the Satellite with a special agenda: Cracker will be performing its 1993 album “Kerosene Hat,” and Camper Van Beethoven […]
My top 4 midweek outings: ‣ The Walkmen (joined by Japandroids) headline the Music Box behind the release of their fifth album “Lisbon.” ‣ AA Bondy, whose set was one of the highlights of the recent FYF Fest, plays Spaceland along with fellow folkie JBM. ‣ Power-pop Bleu (whose new album “Four” will be out […]
Horns blazing, the Walkmen teased the Sept. 14 release of their new album, “Lisbon,” last week by releasing the song “Stranded.” But don’t think the NYC quintet is going all N’awlins on its Fat Possum release. “I guess it sounds more like our last record, ‘You & Me,’ than a lot of the other songs […]
It’s Austin and it’s Spoon. If Britt Daniel couldn’t get elected mayor of this music mecca, he’d at least be toasted as the crown prince of its indie constituency, at least judging from the adulation showered on the quartet during its 75-minute performance at the outdoor stage at Stubb’s. The heaping helping of home cooking […]
