Tonic and Emily Wells [pictured] head up the bill for Dylapalooza, a benefit Monday night for Dylan David,” a 7-year-old who is battling brain cancer. The event, at the Echoplex and co-presented by MySpace Records, the Hotel Cafe and the Pablove Foundation/Dangerbird Records, will also feature Sonos, Leah Andreone and the Lonely Forest. Admission is […]
It worked well for the Dead Weather. Now the Flaming Lips plan their own pop-up store – complete with an intimate performance – on Thursday at the Nike/Ricardo Montalban Theatre, 1615 Vine St. Like the Dead Weather did downtown in August to create a splash around its new album, the Lips will offer one-of-a-kind merch […]
“Corn Flakes With John Lennon (And Other Tales from a Rock ’n’ Roll Life),” the music memoirs of former Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn, comes out next week. The Times has a big excerpt running in Sunday’s paper, with more to follow Monday and Tuesday. The first in what’s sure to be a series […]
In baseball terms, attending Thom Yorke’s “rehearsal” show on Friday night at the Echoplex in Los Angeles was like showing up at the stadium early to watch a slugger hit home runs in batting practice. If only the Radiohead frontman can hit one out of the park Sunday and Monday when his newly formed all-star […]
Paramore’s show tonight at the Palladium has been scotched by singer Hayley Williams’ laryngitis (she saw a doctor this afternoon); the Kanye West/Lady Gaga tour has been scotched (no reason given); and watch your e-mail tomorrow morning for a blast about Thom Yorke’s surprise show at the Echoplex.
I pulled an all-nighter at Hollywood Forever Cemetery over the weekend to review Bon Iver. It was a one-of-a-kind morning. Only the sun copped a bad attitude, staying shrouded behind the marine layer until after the concert was over. Here’s the beginning of the story: What if they held a sunrise concert and everybody showed […]
[I’ve been meaning to share random observations from recent shows for days. Now, obviously the lack of sleep has made me slap-happy – not only did I write these, I’m posting them.] Autolux, El Rey Theatre, Sept. 25 Sending out good wishes, as they get back in business, to Autolux, the best damn aloof band […]
In two short years, Everest has gone from nice-local-guys-making-warm-and-fuzzy-Americana to full-fledged touring rockers, who, through their affiliation with Neil Young’s Vapor Records, gained slots opening for the likes of Young, Wilco and My Morning Jacket and played festivals such as Bonnaroo and Bumbershoot. It’s been a period of revelation and growth for frontman Russell Pollard […]
The Like have (finally) resurfaced. It’s been four years this week since the then-trio, not yet out of their teens, released “Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?” – a debut album that was a good start for a young band but probably out of its league on a major label. Now as a four-piece, the […]
Jim Carroll died. The poet and punk rocker had a profound effect on a certain Midwestern ne’er-do-well. I was an on-again, off-again college student when “The Basketball Diaries” hit, and his raw tales from the streets of New York City, so beautiful in their telling, proved not only inspirational to a young writer but cautionary […]
