Your Superbowl Sunday spread: ‣ Vas Dafrans, Harriet, Rimpau and the Peach Kings play the Bootleg as part of a mini festival that will benefit the 20-year-old skateboarder/snowboarder Xander Mozejewski, who was recently in a motorcycle accident. The acoustic room will also feature the Weekend Pilots, Red Robot w/ Strings, Sophia Louise and Deux Sons. […]
A super Saturday to warm up for your Super Sunday: ‣ Has it been almost two years since Haim rocked a Buzz Bands LA show at the Echo? Time flies. Between other musical endeavors, the young L.A. quartet of sisters Danielle, Alana and Este Haim and Tim Carr has been working on new music. Haim […]
Happy Friday, everybody: ‣ Long Island quintet Twin Sister, on their first headlining tour, visits the Echo behind their 2011 debut “In Heaven.” Ava Luna and Talkdemonic support. That’s Twin Sister’s video for “Kimmi in a Rice Field,” above. ‣ This month’s installment of First Fridays at the Natural History Museum brings San Francisco’s the […]
Our cups overfloweth: ‣ His new album “A Wasteland Companion” en route in April, M. Ward plays at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. [That’s his new video for “The First time I Ran Away,” above.] ‣ Gotye, his album “Making Mirrors” out this week, plays the sold-out El Rey Theatre, joined by Kimbra, who’s featured on the […]
Saint Motel is good at cinema. Oh, the L.A. quartet can write pop hooks too, but as the nifty collage of 16mm film, video and iPhone images in the band’s new video for “At Least I Have Nothing” reminds, the foursome of A/J Jackson, Aaron Sharp, Greg Erwin and Dak first came together in film […]
Happy 2/1/12: ‣ Buzz Bands LA presents a night of free music at Harvard & Stone featuring 7Horse and Stephen Brower & the Silent Majority, along with DJ Mara Schwartz, There’s no cover charge. ‣ British electro-funk duo Fujiya & Miyagi wind up a big U.S. tour behind their latest album “Ventriloquizzing” with a show […]
‣ Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin visits the Troubadour behind her recently released album “Little Spark,” made with producer Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe) and arrangements by Richard Swift. The video for the song “Hurry Hurry” was directed by Scarlett Johansson. The Watson Twins open tonight’s show. ‣ Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. swings back […]
Getting your week started right: ‣ Chasing Kings wind up a month of previewing songs off their forthcoming album “Nice Guys” at the Satellite, and their final residency night also features Shadow Shadow Shade and Francisco the Man. ‣ Princeton (pictured) wraps up its Bootleg Theater residency, with NO and Rich Aucoin supporting. ‣ The […]
Your Sunday slate: ‣ Indie-rock quartet LA Font ought to be in a chipper mood tonight – the foursome’s recent Kickstarter campaign to fund the making of a full-length album met its goal this past week. LA Font headlines the Bootleg Bar tonight, on a bill with the Ross Sea Party and Minneapolis indie-rockers Rogue […]
Saturday night’s show menu: ‣ Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba, who released an EP via his side project The Hell (with ex-Angels & Airwaves drummer Atom Willard) in December and has another side project in the works with AFI’s Hunter Burgan, visits the Troubadour on a solo acoustic tour. Mike Park, the veteran punk rocker […]
