Tonight in L.A.: Indigo Music Festival (Melvins, Deafheaven, Blonde Redhead, more), Paul Oakenfold, Kishi Bashi, Jukebox the Ghost, Afternoons, Bush, Dave & Phil Alvin, Jarell Perry, Nothing, Stray Birds
Happy Saturday: â–º The Observatory presents this year’s Indigo Music Festival with a lineup featuring the Melvins, Deafheaven, Blonde Redhead (pictured), Deerhoof, Moving Units, Mike Watt, Youth Code, Morgan Delt, Fever the Ghost, Talk in Tongues, Kiev, Crystal Skulls, Tashaki Miyaki, Mini Mansions, Dahga Bloom, LA Witch, Drinking Flowers, Thee Rain Cats, the Vivids and […]
Tonight in L.A.: The Airborne Toxic Event, Patti Smith, Sam Smith, Rocket From the Crypt, Thomas Jack, Jimmy Gnecco, the Diamond Light, the Hood Internet, Keller Williams, Silverstein, Beacon
Friday night’s flurry: â–º L.A. quintet the Airborne Toxic Event [pictured] preview songs from their forthcoming album “Dope Machines” (out Feb. 24) at the Troubadour. FAkers open. â–º Patti Smith returns for a second night at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. â–º Sam Smith is back for a second night at the Forum. â–º Australian […]
Big Thursday night for you: â–º Patti Smith does the first of two nights at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. â–º Sam Smith holds forth at the Forum. â–º Body/Head, the collaboration between Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, visits the Echo, with Syko Friend and Eloe Ornoe opening. â–º Crash Kings headline the Satellite, supported […]
Wednesday’s shows, listed here so we don’t get fined: â–º Resurgent Scottish garage-pop duo the Vaselines visit the Roxy Theatre behind their latest album “V for Vaselines,” the third since their reformation seven years ago. Above, the “spy” video for “Crazy Lady.” Loch Lomond opens. â–º With their album “The Great Pretenders” on the way […]
Show stuff for your Tuesday night: â–º L.A.-based Australian duo Intergalactix, who released their EP “I.W.S.O.M.” last August, visit the Satellite, supported by Thrift and Ghetto Blasters. Above, the duo’s collaboration with the Killbirds, “My Name Is Simon.” â–º Tijuana Panthers and Gap Dream, along with Holy Wave, Hidden Ritual, the Wolf and Sweat Lodge, […]
Happy Monday (we think): â–º Mates of State [pictured], the long-running indie-pop duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, have “new songs and a new approach,” they say — and, ostensibly, an eighth album in the works (their last was 2011’s “Mountaintops”). They headline the Bootleg HiFi, supported by Babes and Fictionist. â–º The Ting […]
Incoming: The Ting Tings, Mates of State, Wolf Alice, Holychild, Wildling, the Fontaines, Hotel Hot Burrito, Ivory Deville, the Vaselines, Mini Mansions, Eric McFadden, Paul Bergmann, the Entrance Band, Blackbird Blackbird, Wale, We Are Scientists, the Hood Internet, Patti Smith, Sam Smith, Body/Head, the Warlocks, Crash Kings, the Haden Triplets, Brooke Fraser, Susanna Hoffs, Magic […]
Sunday, and it’s no day to rest: â–º Go Betty Go is officially back, the L.A. quartet releasing its first new music, “The Reboot” EP, next week and headling the Roxy Theatre tonight, joined by the Dollyrots, A Pretty Mess and Images. Above, Go Betty Go’s video for “It Haunts You Now.” â–º Spandau Ballet […]
Tonight in L.A.: Bad Suns, Spandau Ballet, Street Joy, Russian Circles, the Wombats, the Mast, Light FM, Pageants, the Expendables, Dust on the Radio, Los Lobos, Shiny Toy Guns, Mates of State
A stellar Saturday night awaits: â–º Coachella-bound Bad Suns, the L.A. quartet whose 2014 debut album “Language & Perspective” belied the band’s youth, headline the El Rey Theatre, supported by Coasts and Maudlin Strangers. â–º Touring the U.S. for the first time in 30 years, Spandau Ballet headlines the Wiltern. â–º Street Joy celebrates the […]
Big Friday night, near and far: â–º Night Terrors of 1927 celebrate the release of their debut full-length “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” with a show at the Roxy Theatre, supported by FMLYBND. [See NTO1927’s “When You Were Mine”] â–º Punk-rock rabblerousers FIDLAR take a break from working on their second album to headline a show […]
