Your end of the weekend options: â–º Eleanor Friedberger opens night two of Tweedy (Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy and his son drummer Spencer Tweedy) at the Ace Hotel Theatre. â–º Back from SXSW, Of Montreal is at the Regent Theater with Yip Deceiver kicking off the night. â–º Playing songs from their new album “Dope Machines” […]
Tennis System are still basking in the glow of the critical acclaim surrounding their second LP ‘Technicolour Blind,’ released late last year via PaperCup Music. This year they’ve already played Shaun White’s Air + Style festival and now they’re gearing up for an April residency at The Echo. Matty Taylor and company have just released […]
It’s Friday and the first day of Spring: â–º Is Bakermat just “Another Man?” Be at the El Rey Theatre to find out. Hotel Garuda opens. â–º Flashback to 90’s punk rock with Rancid, Sick of It All and the Interrupters at the OC Fair & Event Center. â–º Tijuana Panthers kick off their two-night […]
â–º Quadron kicks off the first of two jazzy R&B nights at the Bootleg HiFi with Khadja Bonet. â–º While Quadron plays in one room, David Ford and Aaron Embry play their handsome tunes in the other at the Bootleg HiFi. â–º More Americana is at The Echo with Joe Pug and Field Report. â–º […]
There have been some recent big changes in the local riot grrrl outfit TÜLIPS. Rocking a new drummer and bassist, Travis Moore and Miles Faster respectively, these riot gazers are now an unstoppable four-piece flaunting the lineup in their new video for “Wait” off of their Cassingle “Wait” and “Hotspur” released last August. The low-fi […]
â–º Folk rock powerhouse Ani DiFranco is at the Orpheum Theatre with Pearl and the Beard. â–º Henry Wolfe will be playing songs from his Encino EP along with Night Cruise and Clara-Nova at the Satellite. â–º Monomaniac and Michael Grant & the Assassins join Ontario-based rockers Kingdoms at the Bootleg HiFi. â–º Alt-Pop locals […]
The South by Southwest Music Festival kicks off today, and already things are getting weird. If people are not talking about Ava on Tinder, they’re talking about the dude who attacked Run the Jewels on stage Monday at the Spotify House. Oh, and the weather. It’s not going to be pretty. Around 200 L.A. artists […]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, here are some alternatives to boozing at the bars: â–º Of all the places in the world on St. Patrick’s Day, Flogging Molly will be at the Hollywood Palladium. â–º Synthy hip-hop duo Bad Lands are joined by Forebear, The Draw, LEX, Beautiful Things at the Bootleg HiFi. â–º It’s the […]
L.A. favorites Avid Dancer have emerged with a new music video for their song “All Your Words Are Gone” from their upcoming debut “1st Bath,” due April 14 via Grand Jury Records. Marine line drummer-turned-guitar-wielding-frontman Jacob Dillan Summers is the calming face of the video full of soothing pastel colors, paper shapes and a collection […]
Lady Low’s “romance rock” is where strings and heartstrings collide, the L.A. retro-poppers’ early songs evoking the Spector sound, without the specter of irony. At the center of the fray is rock veteran Jimmy Sweet, who plays his husky baritone off singers Rachel Maxann (who also plays bass and synth), Eden Lee (who also drums), […]
