When it was announced last week that a compilation of early-’90s singles by L.A. lo-fi legends Further would be released in September, it was only natural that I would mentally connect the dots with the original players. Further were brothers Darren and Brent Rademaker, Josh Schwartz and Kevin Fitzgerald. Among them, they went on to […]
Filter, the music magazine, marketing/promotions company and promoter of the annual Culture Collide festival in Echo Park, will fold by summer’s end, the result of a split between business partners Alan Sartirana and Alan Miller. Sartirana and Miller each have launched new platforms. Miller will do business under the name Culture Collide, whose website recently […]
School of Seven Bells announced today it would release a new album – featuring parts recorded by producer-guitarist Benjamin Curtis before his diagnosis with lymphoma and during his treatment. Curtis died on Dec. 29 at age 35. SVIIB’s Alejandra Deheza says she is working on completing the new album, the follow-up to 2012’s “Ghostory.” Meanwhile, […]
Fresh off three sold-out club shows in May and prepping their sophomore album, Dead Sara highlights a strangely patchwork Saturday night lineup for the 2014 Pershing Square Summer Concert Series. The free, all-ages shows run six Saturdays starting July 12, and Dead Sara plays on July 19 with long-running rockers Tonic. Pershing Square (532 S. […]
Sunset Strip icons Jane’s Addiction and Australian electro/metal showmen Empire of the Sun will co-headline the seventh annual Sunset Strip Music Festival – which moves to two days this year, Sept. 20 and 21, in West Hollywood. With original members Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins, Jane’s Addiction will mark the 25th anniversary of […]
The Regent Theater, the long-in-the-works downtown venue being booked by Spaceland Productions, made its first show announcement today, an Oct. 16 concert featuring Danish songstress MØ (the artist born Karen Marie Ørsted who played the Troubadour earlier this month). The Regent’s grand reopening might actually come earlier in the fall. Details on the venue’s first […]
Indie-pop siren Madi Diaz will be joined by anthem-bearing sextet Afternoons and rock quartets Eastern Conference Champions and Francisco the Man at the July installment of Chinatown Summer Nights. The free, all-ages show near Chinatown’s Central Plaza, which kicks off a 6 p.m. on July 12, also features Black Apples and Wet & Reckless. All […]
Electro-pop quartet Strangeheart and L.A. rockers Kiven will headline the first two installments of “Roaring Nights,” the annual summer series that brings music and nightlife to the Los Angeles Zoo. The series, which kicks off June 27, features pop-up zookeeper talks and animal encounters, DJ sets, food trucks and full-service bars. Tickets for the events, […]
Folk-rock heavyweight Jonathan Wilson, neo-soul outfit the Internet and Latino alternative rockers Las Cafeteras highlight the summer’s Figat7th Downtown Festival – six consecutive Friday nights of free concerts in the plaza of the retail center located at Figueroa and 7th streets. The concerts kick off at 8 p.m. each Friday from July 18 to Aug. […]
Live music returns to Century City’s Annenberg Space for Photography this summer when Gregg Allman, Shelby Lynne and Wynonna & the Big Noise headline shows in conjunction with the music’s exhibition “Country: Portraits of an American Sound.” Two years ago, the Annenberg staged wildly popular shows to go along with its exhibition “Who Shot Rock […]
