Happy Saturday: â–º It’s Day 2 of Stagecoach, with Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Gregg Allman, ZZ Top and more at the Empire Polo Field in Indio. [Set times at the end of this post.] â–º The Kaiser Chiefs rock the Wiltern behind their latest album “Education, Education, Education & War,” with We Are Scientists opening. […]
So much good tonight I can hardly stand it: â–º The Stagecoach festival kicks off a three-day run in Indio, with Tim McGraw, Merle Haggard, Kacey Musgraves, Sturgill Simpson, the Lone Bellow and more. [Set times at the end of this post.] â–º On his way to play Stagecoach on Saturday, Rock and Roll Hall […]
Things for your Thursday: â–º Georgia rockers Drive-By Truckers visit the Regent Theater. â–º Long-running indie-rocker Matt Pond PA, who has a new album “The State of Gold” coming in June, visits the Troubadour on a tour celebrating the 10-year anniversary of his best album “Several Arrows Later” (getting the deluxe reissue treatment). Young Buffalo […]
What on earth is going on this Earth Day? Here’s what: â–º With their first album in 18 years, “Sol Invictus,” due May 17, Faith No More [pictured] kicks off the first of three nights at the Wiltern. â–º Nosaj Thing — victimized by thieves last week in Houston (he lost gear, laptops and “”years worth […]
Your Tuesday show lineup: â–º Australian sextet the Cat Empire visits the El Rey Theatre; get there early for Canada’s Current Swell. â–º Ty Segall does a solo acoustic show at the Satellite, where he’s joined by Cory Hanson and Emmett Kelly. â–º The Fontaines [pictured] continue their residency at Harvard & Stone, playing along […]
Top of the 4/20 to you: â–º Folk-pop trio the Good Mad — that’s their video for “Adelaide,” above — play the Hotel Café behind their “Face Your Feels” EP. Also joining in the fun at the Hotel Café tonight: Drug Cabin Bones Muhroni, Irene Dias and Town in the City. â–º April’s free Monday residencies […]
Incoming: Stagecoach, KXLU Fest II, Odessa, Dorothy, Winter, Barrows, Leland, the Cat Empire, Reggie Watts, Ty Segall, the Fontaines, Willis Earl Beal, Lalah Hathaway, Thomas Nicholas Band, ShyBoy, Nosaj Thing, Faith No More, the Vim Dicta, Prawn, Brothers Osborne, Drive-By Truckers, Rumer, Emily West, Jared & the Mill, Willoughby, LA Font, Tigers Jaw, Matt Pond […]
The Replacements’ “Back by Unpopular Demand Tour” proved a misnomer at the Palladium on Wednesday night, the first of the quartet’s two sold-out shows in Hollywood. There remains plenty of popular demand to see the seminal Minneapolis rockers, out of mothballs after nearly a quarter of a century with original members Paul Westerberg and Tommy […]
Happy Sunday: â–º Day 3 of Weekend 2 — this means the end for Coachella, and the likes of Drake, Florence + the Machine, Kaskade, Jenny Lewis [pictured], Ryan Adams, David Guetta, St. Vincent, Fitz & the Tantrums, Marina and the Diamonds, Brand New, Madeon, Stromae, Odesza, RAC and Desaparecidos bring the festival to a […]
Happy Saturday: â–º Coachella continues its second day of Weekend 2 with encore performances by Jack White, the Weeknd, Axwell ^ Ingrosso, Alt-J, Belle & Sebastian, Ratatat, Hozier, Flosstradamus, Bad Religion, SBTRKT, FKA Twigs, Tyler the Creator, Father John Misty, the War on Drugs, Run the Jewels and more, at the Empire Polo Club in […]
