Sunday things: ‣ The Satellite continues its week-long free show series. Tonight features cinematic music from headliner Seven Saturdays. Pageants and Ash Reiter also play. (You can also catch Ash Reiter earlier in the day at Lot 1 Cafe’s late brunch show.) That’s Ash Reiter’s video for “Heatwave” above. ‣ Part-Time Punks dedicates a night […]
Saturday Selections: ‣ The recently reunited Chief (pictured above) headlines the third night of the Satellite’s week-long free show series. Brian Whelan and Strange Markings also join in the fun. ‣ The Smell celebrates it 15th anniversary with reunion sets from The Sharp Ease, Get Hustle, Godzik Pink, the Centimeters, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound and the Pope. […]
Friday night fun: ‣ Lord Huron kicks off 2013’s First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum, with Wildcat! Wildcat! supporting. ‣ Big night of metal at the Fonda Theatre, with Bay Area Neurosis headlining and Savage Republic and Ides of Gemini setting the table. ‣ FOMO – that’s “Fear of Missing Out” – brings […]
Thursday things: ‣ Louisiana sextet Royal Teeth, winding up an over-the-holidays tour and getting ready to record their debut album for Dangerbird Records, visit the Roxy Theatre, supported by the Active Set, Lakes, Pierce the Arrows at Garrett Lee Robinson. That’s Royal Teetch, above, during their impressive set on October at the Culyure Collide festival. […]
[iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/47277098″ width=”450″ height=”253″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>[/iframe] Getting the new year off to a good start: ‣ Michael Davis With Lions, whose EP was one of our favorites of 2012, celebrates the release of his full-length, “Real Love,” with a free show at the Echo. Soviet Red and Merry Christmas support. ‣ The Sister […]
There’s a very short show schedule tonight, highlighted by another night in Social Distortion’s homestand and the opener of Cotillon’s residency [more on Cotillon here] at Harvard & Stone. So I thought I’d share this cover of U2’s “New Year’s Day” that arrived in the mailbox this morning. It’s from L.A. quartet Act As If. […]
Dear 2012, don’t let the door hit you in the ass. Dear friends, please be safe tonight: ‣ The key here will be to dress as well as the band: R&B revivalists Vintage Trouble, already huge just about everywhere but their hometown, bring their retro rock to the Roxy Theatre, where Sy Smith and DJ […]
Incoming: Redd Kross, Vintage Trouble, Cake, the Henry Clay People, Zedd, Social Distortion, Michael Davis With Lions, Royal Teeth, Neurosis, Brian Whelan, Seven Saturdays, Escape the Fate, Reel Big Fish Above: Tashaki Miyaki (that’s their video for “Best Friend,” above) is one of the bands playing “FOMO” – that’s Fear of Missing Out on Friday. […]
Sunday night, or “New Year’s Eve eve”: ‣ Ludacris and Kelly Rowland do a “pre-New Year’s Eve” party at Club Nokia. ‣ The Aggrolites bring their “dirty reggae” to Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach, where they’ll be joined by the Expanders and the Delirians. ‣ The Fixx, now into their fourth decade and just having […]
Here’s your show menu for the last Saturday of 2012: ‣ Father John Misty (pictured above), who made several year-end lists (including this one) with his album “Fear Fun,” headlines the El Rey Theatre. Fellow L.A band Icy Demons supports. ‣ Queen of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson shows fans she’s still got it with a show […]
