Big Thursday evening ahead: ‣ Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players, the all-star cast assembled to play the music created for “Sound City” documentary (there’s an album “Sound City – Real to Reel” on the way in March), rock the Palladium. Collaborators for the L.A. show are expected to include Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Rick Springfield, […]
Midweek madness: ‣ The Who’s “Quadrophenia and More” tour visits the Staples Center. How is the legendary U.K. band doing these days? Here’s what Monday’s show at the Honda Center was like. ‣ With a new album ready to go, LA Font headlines the Satellite on a night that features Hindu Pirates and Thorcraft Cobra. […]
Tuesday’s things:Â ‣Â Local Natives and Superhumanoids play their second L.A. show this week at the El Rey Theatre. (Local Natives also play an in-store at Amoeba earlier in the day.) ‣Â Bootleg opens up both its rooms for two shows: The theater will host Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, (of the Moldy Peaches and Little Joy, […]
One of those mammoth Mondays: ‣ It’s release week for Local Natives’ sophomore album “Hummingbird,” and the L.A. quintet plays the first of two sold-out shows with Superhumanoids. Tonight’s show is at the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Niki & the Dove play the El Rey Theatre behind their album “instinct,” supported by Vacationer and Kan Wakan. […]
Incoming: Local Natives, Niki & the Dove, the Who, Lisa Loeb, Ron Sexsmith, Two Gallants, Dead Sara, Jon Foreman, Sound City Players, Meiko, Tristan Prettyman, Tegan and Sara, the Gaslamp Killer, the Happy Hollows, Vieux Farka Touré, the Bronx, Radar Brothers, Branford Marsalis, Augustana, Benjamin Francis Leftwich Above: Tegan and Sera return this week with […]
Sunday’s hot list: ‣ Swedish duo Niki & the Dove comes in for a landing at the Constellation Room in Orange County. ‣Â Joshua Radin and friends do a benefit show for Little Kids Rock at the the Hotel Café. ‣ And Tearist and Savage Republic team up for a big night at Part Time Punks […]
Saturday at the Park, and elsewhere: ‣ Ben Folds Five – you remember how they rattled the Fraggles last fall, right? – visit the Wiltern behind their comeback album “The Sound of the Life of the Mind.” ‣ It looks as if the weather has cleared off in time for a special day at Santa […]
Here’s your Friday night schedule: ‣ Soul man Cody Chesnutt visits the Troubadour behnd his latest album “Landing on a Hundred.” ‣ Pageants celebrate the release of their “Musings of the Tide” 7-inch at the Bootleg Bar, supported by the Reflections and SISU. ‣ Denver’s Wovenhand visits the Satellite to do a makeup date for […]
Your big-big-big-show Wednesday: ‣ Muse, touring in support of their Grammy-nominated sixth album “The 2nd Law,” roars into Staples Center for the first of three nights in the big arena. They are joined on tour by Band of Skulls. Meanwhile, 21 million-plus YouTube views for the Grammy-nominated single “Madness?” Madness. ‣ The Airborne Toxic Event, […]
Coachella, you’ve got company. Desert Daze, a by-the-bootstraps festival that debuted over 11 days last year in Desert Hot Springs, today announced a hallucination-inducing lineup headed up by Saharan rockers Tinariwen and L.A.’s Warpaint. The one-day event on Saturday, April 20 – opposite the second day of Coachella’s second weekend – also features Chelsea Wolfe, […]
