Them Crooked Vultures – nice backgrounder on them in this morning’s L.A. Times – have sprung a surprise show on the Sunset Strip, and on the eve of their album release. The trio of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones will play the Roxy tonight; tickets at the door only, and there are […]
[Birthday wishes to Butch Walker on Saturday. … Here’s what’s on my weekend radar, for one reason or another – for a more comprehensive list, please visit Duke at You Set the Scene:] Tonight: It’s Week 2 of Julian Casablancas’ flashy residency at the Downtown Palace Theatre, and when I saw the opener last week […]
Craft beer meets locally crafted indie rock on Saturday at the first Hollywood Brew Fest – and it’s a good day to forget you ever took that big swig of PBR. The Brew Fest, which runs from 3 to 11 p.m. at the Fonda Theatre and the adjacent Blue Palms Brewhouse, offers unlimited tastings from […]
[Happy birthday to Neil Young. Happy show-going to you, on a busy Thursday night:] The lineup of the night is surely at the Echoplex, where shoegazey psych-rockers Dead Meadow headline. Imaad Wasif and the Growlers – each of whom recently released new albums – support, as does Useless Keys, who are finishing up new recordings […]
Hadn’t heard much from Blacklist since I caught the NYC quartet’s fairly gripping set at SXSW – until this past week, when the band’s West Coast debut was announced. The foursome’s revivalist post-punk will make you want to bust out your black; it’s urgent and shadowy and Goth to the core. I had overlooked (shame […]
[Birthday greetings today to roots-rock king Dave Alvin, who, by the way, will be playing one of the upcoming West Coast, Left Coast events at Walt Disney Concert Hall – he’s there Dec. 6 with Brian Wilson and the Living Sisters (Inara George, Becky Stark and Eleini Mandell). Here’s what’s up tonight:] Australia-by-way-of-Chicago’s Via Tania […]
It’s a busy night in Echo Park – local experimental noisemakers 60 Watt Kid celebrate the release of their new album “We Come From the Bright Side” upstairs at the Echo, while Bishop Allen and Throw Me the Statue play downstairs at the Echoplex in a show that was moved from the El Rey Theatre. […]
[Birthday shout-out to L.A. musician/producer Aaron Embry today. Meanwhile, there is an enormous confluence of concerts for a Monday night — here goes:] The first time I saw U.K. punk-rockers the Cribs play in Los Angeles, frontman Gary Jarman bloodied himself on the microphone, and it was love at first gush. It’s not likely that […]
L.A. chanteuse Inara George last month released “Acidental Experimental,” her solo follow-up to the 2008 collaboration she did with Van Dyke Parks, “An Invitation.” For this new digital-only release (on Everloving, which released her 2006 debut “All Rise”), the distaff half of the Bird and the Bee again worked with producer Michael Andrews. The results […]
In a way, the Meeting Places’ name is perfect. Like the best of their shoegazing forebears, the L.A. quartet’s music glistens in the place where fuzz-filled soundscapes meet memorable melodies. The quartet of Scott McDonald, Chase Harris, Dean Yoshihara and Arthur Chan has been an on-again, off-again proposition since early in the decade, taking a […]
