Incoming: Chinese New Year Festival, Air & Style Festival (Kendrick Lamar, Diplo, Phantogram, Flaming Lips, Steve Aoki, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Sleigh Bells, more), Avid Dancer, Banta, Scavenger Hunt, Young Creatures, Charming Liars, Fire in the Hamptons, the Parlor Mob, Monogem, Billy Idol, Over the Rhine, Peter Himmelman, No Parents, the Beta Machine, […]
Sunday’s outings: â–º FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) Fest 2015 goes off starting at 3 p.m. at the Echo, with No Parents, Talk In Tongues, Line & Circle, Paul Bergmann, Bobby London, Winter, Harriet Brown. Pageants, Bouquet, Melted and Traps PS. [Set times at the end of the post.] â–º Sparks returns to Theatre at Ace Hotel […]
Happy Valentine’s Day: ► Sparks and a 38-piece orchestra performs the 1974 album “Kimono My House” among other songs from their 23-album repertoire at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. â–º The Growlers headline the Hollywood Palladium in support of their latest album “Chinese Fountain.” That’s the Growler’s video for “Good Advice” above. â–º PAPA headlines the […]
Friday night’s just crazy, people: â–º Dr. Dog, touring behind the release of “Live at the Flamingo Hotel,” headlines the Wiltern, with Hanni El Khatib supporting. â–º At the El Rey, it’s Hundred Waters, Moses Sumney and Natalie Prass. Above, the animated video for “Innocent” by French director Jeremy Clapin. â–º The Dodos rock the […]
Your Thursday show menu: ► Reunited punk rockers Babes in Toyland play their first L.A. show in 18 years, headlining the Roxy Theatre. â–º Jessica Lea Mayfield [pictured], the 24-year-old singer-guitarist who made a big statement with last year’s album “Make My Head Sing …” (and who is collaborating with Seth Avett of the Avett Brothers […]
Psych-rockers Talk In Tongues and garage-punks No Parents will cap a diverse day of music Sunday at FOMO Fest 2015, the Echo’s annual showcase of emerging bands from L.A. The lineup announced earlier this week has been adjusted because of the cancellation of the Moth & the Flame due to personal reasons. Doors open at 3 p.m. […]
Tuesday would make a great mixtape: â–º Singer-songwriter Ben Howard plays the Shrine Expo Hall behind his latest album “I Forget Where We Were,” supported by Willy Mason. â–º Kate Voegele headlines the Troubadour behind her “Wild Card” EP, her first new music in three years. Leroy Sanchez and Andie Case open. â–ºAt the Bootleg […]
Update at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday: The Moth & the Flame have been forced to withdraw from the event for personal reasons. We’ll have an update on a new lineup soon. The Moth & the Flame [pictured], Pageants, Bouquet, Melted and Traps PS are among the bands who have been added to the lineup for FOMO […]
Do you love Mondays as much as we do? â–º With his new album “I Love You, Honeybear” out this week, Father John Misty headlines the Roxy Theatre. Get there early for Guy Blakeslee (of The Entrance Band), whose “Ophelia Slowly,” his first solo album in 10 years, came out last year. â–º Welsh rockers […]
Incoming: Father John Misty, Catfish & the Bottlemen, Tom Vek, Avid Dancer, Scavenger Hunt, Young Creatures, Banta, Ben Howard, Nicole Atkins, the Two Tens, the Vim Dicta, Corners, Kate Voegele, Wet & Reckless, the Warlocks, Natalie Prass, Susan, Granger Smith, Weed, Babes in Toyland, Logic, Pharaohs, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Daedelus, ALO, Boots Electric, Lil Jon, […]