L.A. rock songstress Jonneine Zapata might be unsigned, but she’s hanging out with the right people. Zapata, whose self-released debut “Cast the Demons Out” remains one of the finest albums to emerge from L.A. this year, will be opening for the Mark Lanegan-fronted Soulsavers on a 15-date national tour in September. Included is a Sept. […]
Over the course of three-plus years and three releases (two EPs and a single), Mere Mortals have cultivated a gritty-but-pretty take on Britpop, one that in another city and perhaps another era might earn them the keys to Madchester. Alas, L.A. tends to take bands like the Mortals for granted, seeing as they’re not chasing […]
Billy Corgan has been holed up in L.A. in recent months, writing new Smashing Pumpkins material, and at the Sky Saxon Tribute on Friday night at the Echoplex, he sprung one on the audience. Fronting a one-night-only band called Spirits in the Sky, which featured members of Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Electric Prunes (as […]
The nominees for the U.K.’s Mercury Music Prize were announced this week, and if about half the shortlisted artists aren’t already familiar to Los Angeles audiences, more will be soon. In fact, the latest (and greatest, if you believe NME’s breathless accounts) synth-pop sensation, La Roux, play to a sold-out Troubadour tonight, with four other […]
Who knows when the Henry Clay People are going to have time to record a follow-up to “For Cheap or For Free” – besides upcoming tour dates with the Airborne Toxic Event and a date Aug. 7 at Lollapalooza, their name is on a list of local bands slated to play the Lobsterfest on Sept. […]
Silversun Pickups are playing a surprise show Wednesday, and a message on their website invites fans seeking tickets to e-mail after noon. But expect availability to be very limited. I hear the show is a private gig for Shockhound, although this registrant on the Hot Topic-sponsored website finds no mention of the show there as […]
That was fast. Yeah Yeah Yeahs have replaced Beastie Boys as co-headliners at Lollapalooza. The Beasties were forced to cancel their upcoming tour because Adam “MCA” Yauch is undergoing treatment for a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland. ‣ Nice gig: Local rapper Kenan Bell has been tabbed as the opening act for the upcoming […]
Beastie Boys have canceled upcoming concert appearances – including a Sept. 24 date at the Hollywood Bowl – and pushed back the release of their new album “Hot Sauce Committee Part 1” after band member Adam “MCA” Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland. The cancer is considered treatable, and Yauch […]
Story and photo gallery by Laurie Scavo Devendra Banhart was not the star of the show Saturday night at Space 15 Twenty – no matter how much his fans wanted him to be. He was merely the subject of a book. Maybe that explained the brevity of the singer-songwriter’s set in front of an overflow […]
Fuzz fetishists, here is your next objet d’amour. Dum Dum Girls, whose blissed-out garage pop will get shelved with your Raveonettes, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ronettes, Flatmates, Vivian Girls and maybe Talulah Gosh, have been signed to Sub Pop, which will release their debut in early 2010. Who are Dum Dum Girls? Various lovingly penned […]
