Incoming: Wango Tango, Cillie Barnes, The Moth & the Flame, Freedom Fry, Golden Coast, Mesmi, Los Lobos, Kodaline, the Moody Blues, MS MR, Thee Oh Sees, Reggie Watts, Gold Star, Other Lives, Mika, Max & the Moon, Gal Pals, Gaby Moreno, Puro Instinct, Steve Poltz, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Shlohmo, Esperanza Spalding, Local H, […]
Sunday’s shows: ► All Time Low rock the Palladium behind their latest album “Future Hearts.” Issues, Tonight Alive and State Champs support. ► Translator [see Friday’s post] celebrate the release of their new retrospective compilation “Sometimes People Foreget” with a show at Molly Malone’s. Marvin Etzioni opens. ► Noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt [pictured] bring their guerilla-style […]
A fine Saturday to you: ► Desert Daze, the one-day festival at the Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca, Failure, Warpaint, RJD2, the Budos Band, Dan Deacon, Minus the Bear and more to the Coachella Valley. [Set times.] ► OK Go visits the Wiltern, supported by White Arrows. ► Manic Street Preachers [pictured] bring “The Holy […]
Happy International Workers Day: ► They Might Be Giants have brought back Dial-a-Song, released the new album “Glean” in April, given away a live album as a free download, and now they visit downtown’s Regent Theater at the midway point of a long national tour. ► Sleater-Kinney is back for a second night at the […]
Your Thursday shows: ► Sleater-Kinney headlines the Hollywood Palladium behind their new album “No Cities to Love.” It’s the first of the trio’s two-night stand there, and Body/Head and Ian Rubbish open. Above, “A New Wave” hit’s “Bob’s Burgers.” ► French chanteuse Keren Ann will unveil some new material as well as perform selections from […]
The wide, wide (and we mean wide) world of Wednesday: ► Swedish folk singer José González visits the Regent Theater behind “Vestiges & Claws,” his first album in seven years. Olof Arnalds opens. ► Metal giants Mastodon bring “The Missing Link Your,” a joint jaunt with Clutch, to the Palladium. ► Electro pioneers the Orb, […]
Great lineup of Tuesday shows: ► Matt & Kim headline the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “New Glow.” Get there early for WATERS, who just dropped their sophomore album “What’s Real.” ► Waxahatchee rocks the Roxy behind this month’s release of the full-length “Ivy Tripp” (above the video for “Under a Rock”). Girlpool opens. […]
Here’s to a mighty good Monday: â–º Rapper-singer-poet-activist Saul Williams [pictured], whose new (Justin Warfield-produced) album “Martyr Loser King” comes out in July and who recently dropped a collaboration with Emily Kokal of Warpaint, headlines the Roxy Theatre. Sons of an Illustrious Father open. â–º Crush_DLX, the new project from Pop Levi and (whatever she’s […]
Incoming: Desert Daze, Zane Carney, Saul Williams, Odessa, Dorothy, Winter, Barrows, Nothing But Thieves, Matt & Kim, Waxahatchee, Clockwise, From Indian Lakes, Robert Francis, Jose Gonzalez, Milo Greene, Magic Wands, the Orb, the Romany Rye, Mastodon, Distant Cousins, Buck 65, the Soft Moon, Sleater-Kinney, Keren Ann, Aluna George, Big Data, They Might Be Giants, Kinky, […]
Happy Sunday: â–º Stagecoach winds up with day 3. Today’s lineup features Blake Shelton, the Band Perry, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, the Oakridge Boys, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Outlaws and more at the Empire Polo Field in Indio. [Set times below after the jump.] â–º KXLU Fest II takes off with the Muffs, […]
