Al-Qasar, the striking new project from Thomas Bellier (Blaak Heat, Spindrift), connects the dots between Bedouin soul and 1960s psych-rock. They call it “Arabian Fuzz,” and fans of surf music should expand their horizons with Al-Qasar’s EP, “Miraj.”
Malian septet Tinariwen wove a night of mystery and wonder to a diverse crowd Sunday night at the Mayan.
Also on Sunday: Against Me!, NELA Music Series, Los Angeles Azules, 1TakeJay, David Binney, West Coast Prost, Andrew Combs, Screaming Dead, the Dead End Kids Club, Knocked Loose, Patriarchy
Incoming: Desert Daze, the Band Camino, Cones, Brittany Howard, Dropkick Murphys, Bad Religion, Grandson, Idles, Daniel Norgren, GoGo Penguin, Joshua Radin, Crumb, K.Flay, Alec Benjamin, Son Volt, Faye Webster, Mallrat, Trapdoor Social, Boy & Bear, Neon Indian, Lana Del Rey, Sofi Tukker, Rival Sons, Morcheeba, Dear Boy, El Ten Eleven, the Japanese House, the Who, Bob Dylan, Chris Brown, Badflower, Bastille, Against Me!, Alice Smith, Bleached, Bad Suns, the Waterboys, Tinariwen
With a new home at the LA Waterfront in San Pedro, the yearly festival headlined by The Growlers expanded into a wild and spooky carnival.
Set times are here for The Growlers 6, the O.C. band’s sixth annual festival and first to be hold on the waterfront in San Pedro.
It’s a wild/wonderful, happy/sad world, as the music of Tinariwen and Dengue Fever reminded fans on Friday night at the Fonda Theatre.
Also on Friday: The Game, Ariana Grande, WHY?, Methyl Ethel, Generationals, the Dollyrots, Bird Concerns, Rough Church, Eric Church, Moose Blood, Rodney & John, Mickey Avalon, Fu Manchu
Incoming: DRILL Festival, Isaiah Rashad, Tashaki Miyaki, Eisley, Sleigh Bells, Panic! At the Disco, Katatonia, the Old 97’s, the Orwells, the Airborne Toxic Event, Dwight Yoakam, Strand of Oaks, Tinariwen, Crystal Fighters, the Game, Ariana Grande, Dawes, Nouvelle Vague, the Growlers, Chronixx, Passenger, Delicate Steve, Red Baraat, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Tinariwen share a new song dedicated to the women who remain in their war-torn desert homeland. The band’s new album, “Elwan,” comes out Feb. 10 on Anti-.
