Show stuff for your Monday: ‣ The Raveonettes headline the El Rey Theatre beind their new album “Observator”, supported by Melody’s Echo Chamber and E13. That’s Imogen Prado’s gorgeous video for the Raveonettes’ “The Enemy,” above. ‣Â New Orleans sextet Royal Teeth come off their strong Culture Collide performances to pay a visit to It’s […]
Show picks for Sunday: ‣ Coming off their epic club show Saturday night at the Echoplex, Of Montreal headlines the Culture Collide Block Party (on Reservoir between Alvarado and Sunset in Echo Park, free with RSVP) as the Filter magazine festival comes to a close. The Wombats, School of Seven Bells, Niki and the Dove, […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ The Eagle Rock Music Festival, with Imperial Teen, the Henry Clay People, La Sera, Peanut Butter Wolf and a performance of “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde,” goes off along Colorado Boulevard many more. See updated schedule. ‣ Filter magazine’s Culture Collide with Of Montreal, Icona Pop, Niki and the Dove and many […]
Tonight in L.A.: Ariel Pink’s, the Black Keys, Robyn Hitchcock, the Big Pink, Zola Jesus, the Offspring, the Maccabees, the Helio Sequence, Dr. Dog, the Head & the Heart, She Wants Revenge, Jason Mraz
Our frantic Friday: ‣ Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti headlines the Fonda Theatre behind its new album “Mature Themes” (that’s the video for “Only in My Dreams,” above). Bodyguard and Dam-Funk support. ‣ Filter magazine’s Culture Collide continues at various venues in Echo Park, tonight’s lineup highlighted by the Big Pink, School of Seven Bells, Zola […]
Your Thursday things: ‣ New Zealand songstress Kimbra headlines the El Rey Theatre behind her debut “Vows” (a remix EP is just out as well), with the Stepkids opening. Above, Kimbra’s video for “Two Way Street.” ‣ Filter magazine’s Culture Collide festival begins in earnest, the multinational gathering at four venues in Echo Park (the […]
Tonight in L.A.: Benefit for Mayla, Slash, Nick Lowe, Conor Oberst/Jenny Lewis, Kate Earl, Kimbra, Chief, Eyes Lips Eyes, Tashaki Miyaki, NO, Maria Minerva
Shows for a wild Wednesday: ‣ A benefit show for leukemia-stricken 3-year-old Mayla Embry and her family goes off at the Bootleg Bar, featuring the music of Father John Misty, Daniel Lanois, Inara George, Becky Stark and Great Northern. A small quantity of tickets will be available at the door. ‣ Slash, along with Myles […]
‣ Garbage headlines the Palladium behind their new album “Not Your Kind of People,” with Screaming Females opening. ‣ The Shins visit the Gibson Amphitheatre of their acclaimed new album “Port of Morrow,” and joining them on this tour is Washed Out, the woozy electronic band fronted by Ernest Greene whose own new album “Within […]
CicLAvia, the quarterly community event that ushers pedestrians and bicyclists onto normally traffic-clogged thoroughfares, goes off Sunday on streets in and around downtown L.A. [See map here.] And for this event, four local bands will perform a free, all-ages matinee show at the CicLAvia hub in the Central Plaza in Chinatown. Rising synth-pop quartet Tapioca […]
Nite Jewel, joined by Slow Magic, Living Things, American Royalty, Them Jeans, DWNTWN and Aaron Embry, among others, heads up the musical lineup for this year’s Abbot Kinney Festival, going off Sunday in Venice. Nite Jewel (that’s her video for “Clive,” above) is riding high on the release of her album “One Second of Love” […]
Incoming: The Lumineers, Garbage, Justin Bieber, the Shins, Emmylou Harris, the Jezabels, Deerhoof, Wax Tailor, the Wombats, Conor Oberst, Kimbra, Father John Misty, Nick Lowe, Coheed & Cambria, Dr. Dog, Patrick Wolf, the Offspring, Jason Mraz, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, the Black Keys, the Head & the Heart, She Wants Revenge, the Maccabees, Of Montreal […]
