Your Saturday selections: ‣ Tenlons Fort‘s brief return to L.A. prompts another show. This time Jack Gibson is joined by Avi Zahner-Isenberg (of Avi Buffalo) and Will Courtney [who will be also be playing our SecondTuesdays show on Jan.10] at Lot 1 Cafe. ‣ The Smell continues to celebrate their 14th anniversary. Best Coast picks […]
Your slammin’ busy Friday: ‣ First Fridays at the Natural History Museum kicks off its 2012 series by welcoming Mariachi El Bronx, along El Haru Kuroi. ‣ No Age heads up a huge lineup at the Smell, which kicks off its weekend-long 14th anniversary celebration. s celebrates its 14th anniversary. ‣ Excellent up-and-coming folk-rock band […]
Thursday’s toil and trouble: ‣ L.A. four-piece Vintage Trouble spent much of 2011 thrilling audiences in the U.K., where their retro rock ’n’ soul transported Jools Holland fans back to the ’50s and ’60s, they opened for Bon Jovi and they earned reviews comparing singer Ty Taylor to a young James Brown. They bring their […]
‣ Arty electro-pop is the order of the night at the Bootleg Theater, where the dressy duo Hi Fashion headlines and the supporting set features Professor Possessor, a self-described “dark-wave/witch-pop” quartet featuring singer Jess from Big Moves. That’s Professor Possessor’s video for “Race With the Devil,” above.” ‣ At the Echo, it’s Dead Dawn, along […]
Tuesdays shouldn’t be this much fun: ‣ L.A. sextet Bikos, who busted out last year with their exuberant album of spiky art-punk “Make Your Sound Sound,” play the Bootleg Bar as part of a great local bill that includes Lovers Drugs and Son Ark. [Get Bikos’ “You Want It” right here. And, for today only, […]
New year, new month, new free residencies: ‣ L.A. quartet Chasing Kings, their debut album “Nice Guys” on the way in March, hold forth at the Satellite, supported on opening night by Toy Bombs, Cassorla and Brendan Hines. ‣ Bootleg Theater residents Princeton have new music coming too – the quartet’s sophomore album “Remembrance of […]
The rundown for tonight, as accompanied by Nellie McKay’s rendition of “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” by the late Broadway composer Frank Loesser (“Guys and Dolls”): ‣ The Henry Clay People, LA Font and Races party at the Satellite, with Buzz Bands LA DJing and Paulie Pesh and Joe Napolitano/Jillinda Palmer doing sets […]
Thursday things: ‣ Part 1 of FMLY Fest – two days of music and communing thrown by the L.A. branch of the eco-conscious collective – goes off at Catnap (1726 N. Spring St. in Chinatown). We posted on the preview mixtape earlier this month. And there’s a very good lineup today, featuring Gangi, Gothic Tropic, […]
The last time I witnessed the Henry Clay People play a New Year’s Eve show: The Satellite was known as Spaceland; the Henry Clays covered “Sometime Around Midnight” at, well, about midnight; there was an onstage marriage proposal; the band played 90-plus minutes of classic rock covers in addition to an hour of their own […]
Wednesday’s top picks: ‣ Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bob Seger visits Staples Center for his first L.A. show in more than four years. Good piece on him in Sunday’s Times. ‣ The Growlers roar into the Echo for a sold-out show. ‣ East L.A. eight-piece Upground, whose sound fuses rock, reggae, ska and […]
