Truth & Salvage Co. will release their “lost album” this fall. The roots-rockers recorded “Atoms Form” back in 2012, but it was shelved. Now its expansive Americana will get its chance to shine.
Not one of those “I-think-I’ll-stay-at-home” evenings: ‣ A special night for one of L.A.’s first families of music: The Haden Triplets – Tanya, Rachel and Petra, daughters of the late Charlie Haden – perform a free show at the Sunset Concerts at the Skirball Center. The trio’s debut album came out earlier this year on Third […]
Incoming: The Interrupters, the Futures League, Mauldin Strangers, Smoke Season, Tete, Liam Bailey, Mother, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beardyman, Figs Cision, Wild Cub, Herbie Hancock, Christopher Owens, Spoon, Deer Tick, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Coathangers, Deep Purple, Haim, Arctic Monkeys, the Haden Triplets, Eminem, Michael McDonald, Jagwar Ma, the Temper Trap, the Good […]
Your Saturday: ‣ It’s Day 1 of FYF Fest at L.A. State Historic Park, with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On the Radio, FLAG, Deerhunter, Devendra Banhart, the Breeders sand many more. Here are your set times. ‣ L.A.-bred, Nashville-based classic rock heavy hitters Truth & Salvage Co. [pictured] headline the Troubadour behind their new album […]
Incoming: FYF Fest, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Best Coast, Strange Talk, Pharaohs, the Polyphonic Spree, Buddy Guy, Quadron, Heart, Nick Waterhouse, Ty Segall, Maria Muldaur, the Breeders, Andrew Belle, Beth Hart, Kristin Chenoweth, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Deafheaven, Colin Hay, the Black Angels, the Airborne Toxic Event, Rocky Dawuni, Quetzal, Truth & Salvage Co., Steely […]
[Happy Fourth of July – make it a safe one, yes? Many venues are taking the holiday off, but not all …] Your post-fireworks fireworks: ‣ Crystal Antlers, their new album “Two-Way Mirror” [see June’s post] out next week, kick off their residency at the Echo. Fidlar and Bass Drum of Death support. ‣ The […]
A short list of local show touts for L.A. tonight, while we are still away in Austin: ‣ Roots-rockers Truth & Salvage Co. headline the Troubadour. ‣ Torches In Trees and Marvelous Toy team up at the Echo. ‣ And the 88 holds forth at the Hotel Cafe. For more listings, visit You Set the […]
Hipsters who like their rock-Americana stripped-down, deconstructed or freaked-out should move along quietly. Truth & Salvage Co. get folky the classic-rock way, with sturdy, clean guitar lines, crafted arrangements and stadium-sized four-part harmonies. Not unlike their sonic brethren the Black Crowes (Chris Robinson produced their debut album, released in May), the L.A.-based sextet [previewed last […]
Four vocalists, four songwriters and a total of six veteran hands who know their way around a song – the conflagration of talent in Truth & Salvage Co. seems to make the L.A.-based outfit immediate contenders in the roots-rock world. Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, for one, thinks so. He’s signed them to his […]
[Birthday greetings go out to Kristin Hersh, long may she rock …] Today: Color me curious about this weekend’s shows by Elefant, the New York City quartet who made a modest splash with their tamed-for-radio dance-punk back in 2003-04. “Misfit” was pretty irrestistible, and the band’s male model-type frontman Diego Garcia did a great job […]
