The opening show at downtown’s new Theatre at Ace sold out so quickly that headliners Spirtitualized have added a second show the night after the Feb. 14 debut. Tickets here. [See Wednesday’s post about “Ladies and Gentlement We Are Floating in Space.”]
The Theatre at Ace, the newest concert venue in downtown Los Angeles, opens in a big way on Feb. 14 when U.K. psychedelic rockers Spiritualized stage a performance of their 1997 masterpiece “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space.” The band, fronted by Jason Pierce (pictured playing a stripped-down set at Coachella in April), […]
NO, the gravitas-wielding indie-rockers fronted by New Zealand expatriate Bradley Hanan Carter, have signed to Arts & Crafts. The Toronto-based label will release the Echo Park band’s debut full-length, “El Prado,” on Feb. 18. Carter, along with Sean Daniel Stentz, Reese Richardson, Ryan Lallier, Simon Oscroft and Michael Walker, came on the scene in late […]
The Silver Lake/Echo Park scene figured to lose one of its most intensely burning stars in 2012 when Summer Darling announced it was calling it quits. They were an indie rocker’s indie rockers, and their self-titled 2010 album was a brute, emotionally and physically, adhering to a directness and complex musicality seldom heard since the […]
Paz Lenchantin, who most recently played with L.A. psych-rockers the Entrance Band, join the Pixies as touring bassist for their 2014 dates. Lenchantin previously played in the Maynard James Keenan project A Perfect Circle and in Billy Corgan’s Zwan. The Pixies parted ways with Kim Shattuck (of the Muffs) last week, only four months after […]
Concert photographer Andrew Youssef, a beloved figure on the Los Angeles music scene whose drive, professionalism and courage in the face of terminal illness won him legions of admirers, died Saturday after a battle with colon cancer. He was 38. Youssef – who shot hundreds of shows for outlets such as OC Weekly, Stereogum and […]
Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor, succumbing to a bout with laryngitis, has scotched five remaining dates on her North American tour, including Sunday’s show at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State L.A. A statement from her publicist this morning said that the 46-year-old singer would “regretfully be forced to cancel her remaining North American […]
Quick notes about some important upcoming benefit shows: ‣ Sasha Vallely is well-known in L.A. music circles as a promoter and singer/multi-instrumentalist (with such bands as the Silver Chords, Spindrift and the Warlocks). Last March, Vallely was in an accident that required neck and spinal surgery, the aftermath of which has left her unable to […]
Diane Coffee, the band fronted by Foxygen’s Shaun Fleming, has scotched its appearance tonight at It’s a School Night at Bardot. In a posting on Facebook, he said: “In response to a medical emergency, we must unfortunately cancel tonight’s ”˜School Night’ show. As L.A. is my hometown, we were obviously very excited to play for […]
Four people were fatally shot, including two members of the post-punk band Yellow Dogs, in what police are calling a murder-suicide early today in Brooklyn. Yellow Dogs [pictured in a 2012 publicity photo] formed in Tehran, Iran, in 2006 and fled their native country a few years ago to avoid persecution, settling in New York. […]