Great things on a Thursday: ‣ Mazzy Star, back with “Seasons of Your Day,” the band’s first album since 1996 headlines the Wiltern Theatre. ‣ The Gaslamp Killer plays a special show at the Mayan Theatre – it’s a fundraiser for the L.A. producer, born William Benjamin Bensussen, who still faces hefty medical bills after […]
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 […]
Those Darlins‘ third studio album “Blur the Lines” may be the most low-key in their current catalog, but the fine-tuning they’ve done on their bombastic fusion of garage rock and outlaw country is at their most polished this time around. Songs like “Oh God” features Jessi Darlin in her most ponderous state while other ditties […]
It is with extreme caution that we acknowledge this Hallmark holiday, but if anybody can get us in the Feb Fourteen Feeling, it’s Meiko. An alternate version of her song “Stuck on You” (from last year’s album “The Bright Side”) appears on Paste magazine’s Valentine’s Day sampler, titled “Half and Half.” That’s “half love songs […]
Tennessee’s Those Darlins bring a lot of ’tude with the punk-rock twang on their sophomore album “Screws Get Loose,” but it turns out Jessi, Kelley and Nikki Darlin (who conspire with their long-ago rock ’n’ roll camp counselor Linwood Regensburg) have a fascination with all things mystical too, in a Spector sort of way. “Mystic […]
Roaring into the weekend: ‣ Thurston Moore and Kurt Vile do their second sold-out night at the Troubadour. ‣ Nashville indie-blues quartet the Features (pictured) – their new album “Wilderness” cementing a place in our playlists – headline the Satellite, with Oh Darling opening. ‣ Speaking of darlings, Those Darlins play the Echo, with White […]
[Be gone, Coachella hangover. There is music to be consumed this evening …] ‣ L.A.’s distinctive purveyors of Cambodian psych-pop, Dengue Fever [pictured], headline the Troubadour celebrate the release of their fourth album (and first on Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group), “Cannibal Courtship.” The Holloys and Jail Weddings open. ‣ The legendary Paul Simon plays to […]
Murfreesboro, Tenn.’s Those Darlins return with “Screws Get Loose” to follow up their wild self-titled debut from 2009. Jessi, Nikki, and Kelley Darlin plus drummer Linwood Regensburg once again blur the lines between country and punk so well they’ll have you moshing in your worn-out leather boots, breaking beer bottles or at least grinding on […]
Garage rockers King Khan & BBQ Show canceled their scheduled performance tonight at the Troubadour. And the Silverlake Lounge headliner Jubilee also canceled. So Tennessee three-piece Those Darlins, originally scheduled to open the Troubadour show, will play the headline slot at the Silverlake Lounge. King Khan ran into a little trouble with the law earlier […]
Tonight is the first of two nights to catch Those Darlins [download] in town when they play the Silverlake Lounge with The Grates and Leslie and the Badgers. … You know Brakesbrakesbrakes has got it goin’ on when their singer quits British Sea Power (Eamon Hamilton moonlighted as keyboardist in the fellow Brighton band) to […]
