Story and photos by Kelsey Heng With the recent resurgence of all things country western, plaid and denim button-downs aren’t the only abundant trend around – folk-infused music is everywhere. For many, we have Marcus Mumford to thank/blame for both. And Tuesday night’s show at the Mint featured two bands who are dressing and playing […]
The El Rey Theatre was all aglow Friday night – painted glowing faces and hand-clutched glowsticks, all signaling the fact that Robert DeLong had come home. For those used to seeing this one-man-band in closer quarters,the secret has been let out. It’s been nearly a year since the release of “Just Movement,” and with a […]
Two things Of Montreal fans know well: Embrace change and expect anything. On Thursday night at the sold-out Art Theatre in Long Beach, anything was fair game. But compared to the usual dizzying psychedelic atmosphere and shocking antics at every turn, this movie theater gathering was tame and bare. Stripped of classic over-the-top costumes, warring […]
On the bootheels of a live radio debut on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic and Monday night’s Conan O’Brien appearance, the southern boys of Jamestown Revival had plenty to prove at their first sold-out show at the Hotel Café on Tuesday night. Best friends since they were 15, native Texans Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay joined […]
Over the weekend at the L.A. Historic State Park, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros pitched their candy-striped Big Top tent, unloaded four nights of heyday circus nostalgia and created a musical creative experience to remember. Photos and recap by Kelsey Heng Free to everyone, a circus bazaar surrounded the Ferris wheel complete with a […]
What Canadian synth-pop sextet Austra doesn’t convey in sound, they certainly project in their appearance. At their show Monday at the Echoplex – which followed a sold-out date in June at the Troubadour – they arrived in full persona, two men clad in plastic neon green rompers standing as pillars to four women on stage, […]
By Karly Daquila An incredibly diverse crowd filled the the Greek Theater on Tuesday night for Grammy-winning pop trio Fun. and their opener, Tegan and Sara. However, it’s safe to say that Tegan and Sara drew almost as large of a crowd as the headliners. ||| Photos by Kelsey Heng Tegan and Sara Quin have […]
Electro-pop campaigners YACHT were typically a spectacle on Thursday night at the Troubadour, drawing a big crowd into their world, their beliefs system and their unified cry for utopian state. After their performance, it is hard to think LA without Shangri-LA. Their encore featured their release, “Party at the NSA,” which singer Claire Evans explained […]
It wasn’t hard to imagine exactly how the sold-out Palma Violets show at the Echoplex on Tuesday night was going to go down. The U.K. punk-rock quartet, coming straight off a successful weekend at Lollapalooza, chart-topping singles abroad and acclaim for their debut album “180,” gave the expectant audience exactly what they had waited for […]
When U.K. quartet Savages visited the El Rey Theatre on Tuesday night for the first of two sold-out shows, it created the perfect storm of mood and energy. The foursome’s hour-long set, mostly from the band’s debut album “Silence Yourself,” was an intensely physical display, with lead singer Jehnny Beth imposing her will on the […]
