Sparks and They Might Be Giants — two long-running bands with their own, inimitable styles — teamed up for a night at the Hollywood Bowl. As the Sparks song says, “Gee, That Was Fun.”
Now past their 40th year as a band, They Might Be Giants rekindled their love affair with fans on Friday at the Wiltern, celebrating three decades of their album “Flood” and having fun every which way. Including, on one song, backwards.
Also on Friday: Cut Chemist, Burger A Go-Go, Demi Lovato, the Dears, Sonny Smith, Ana Tijoux, Machine Head, Datsik, Bad in Bed, Ex-Cult, Zebrahead, Cheap Tissue
Incoming: Air + Style, Van Morrison, Thurston Moore, Snarky Puppy, Senses Fail, Real Estate, Margo Price, Nothing More, Mat Kearney, Anderson East, Sunflower Bean, Theo Katzman, Robert Plant, Cut Chemist, the Dears, Burger A Go-Go, Demi Lovato, They Might Be Giants, Mondo Cozmo, Ana Tijoux, Gogol Bordello, Sharon Van Etten, Buffalo Tom, the Lone Bellow, Meg Baird, the Presets
Also on Saturday: They Might Be Giants, Wolfmother, Joanna Newsom, Allah Las, DJ Quik, Polaris Rose, Gold Class, the Abigails
Upcoming Los Angeles concerts, including: Smashing Pumpkins, Coheed & Cambria, At the Drive-In, the Sword, the Naked & Famous, Tiga, Ra Ra Riot, David Gilmour, Daughter, Polica, X Ambassadors, Wolfmother, They Might Be Giants, Joanna Newsom, Greg Dulli, Allah Las
Happy International Workers Day: ► They Might Be Giants have brought back Dial-a-Song, released the new album “Glean” in April, given away a live album as a free download, and now they visit downtown’s Regent Theater at the midway point of a long national tour. ► Sleater-Kinney is back for a second night at the […]
Incoming: Desert Daze, Zane Carney, Saul Williams, Odessa, Dorothy, Winter, Barrows, Nothing But Thieves, Matt & Kim, Waxahatchee, Clockwise, From Indian Lakes, Robert Francis, Jose Gonzalez, Milo Greene, Magic Wands, the Orb, the Romany Rye, Mastodon, Distant Cousins, Buck 65, the Soft Moon, Sleater-Kinney, Keren Ann, Aluna George, Big Data, They Might Be Giants, Kinky, […]
Incoming: Animal Collective, Best Coast, Surfer Blood, Laura Marling, Twin Forks, Gossling, Phantogram, AFI, James Blake, STRFKR, Real Estate, Au Revoir Simone, Jenny Lewis, Leagues, Hunx & His Punx, Katy Perry, Tricky, Sanglorians, Spindrift, the Sounds, Mark Knopfler, Crystal Fighters, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Radical Face, J. Cole, NONONO, Streetlight Manifesto, Holly Conlan, Hanni El […]
Saturday night’s show menu: ‣ Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba, who released an EP via his side project The Hell (with ex-Angels & Airwaves drummer Atom Willard) in December and has another side project in the works with AFI’s Hunter Burgan, visits the Troubadour on a solo acoustic tour. Mike Park, the veteran punk rocker […]
