[Happy birthday to Ian Brown of the Stone Roses … when’s that next show, dude?] Tonight: Thurston Moore is playing the Smell, and here’s hoping the regulars get in. … Big rawk shows all over: At the three-day tattoo to-do Musink at the O.C. Fairgrounds, the headliners the next three days are Rev. Horton Heat, […]
Ross Flournoy has played in front of enough arms-folded hipster crowds to know that an interviewer is fishing for a punchline when I ask, “So how is playing for a bunch of 10-year-old kids going to be different from playing a regular show in Silver Lake?” The frontman of the Broken West laughs knowingly and […]
[Happy birthday to Yoko Ono, 76 years young. Not that she isn’t getting birthday greetings from all over …] Mystery Jets, the Syd Barrett-worshiping, 1980s-channeling quintet from London, are newly aligned with Rough Trade Records. Their “Twenty One” was No. 8 on NME’s top albums of 2008, though it was barely a blip on anybody’s […]
[Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong turns 37 today, and you ought to be hearing new stuff from him on the radio soon, with the band’s new album “21st Century Breakdown” coming in May …] Charlie Wadhams had quite a warm-up for tonight’s Hotel Cafe show. On Monday he was scheduled to do a short set […]
There will be no general admission tickets available for the Jane’s Addiction show tonight at the Echoplex, honchos at the venue said this afternoon. If you were not one of the 500 who signed up on the band’s website and received confirmation e-mails, you’re out of luck. Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer’s new band, Dot Hacker, will […]
[Andy Taylor of Duran Duran celebrates a birthday today, and we’re both old enough to remember Power Station …] Jane’s Addiction continues building the buzz toward the April release of its boxed set – you didn’t think these cool little gigs were for funsies, did you? – with another club show.” After packing tiny La […]
[Help me rank the birthday Peters: Today, Gabriel, Hook and Tork each celebrate another year …] Friday: Some hot kids on the Eastside: Newly signed to Kemado Records, San Diego’s the Soft Pack (pictured, formerly the Muslims) plays the Echo in one final SoCal show before traipsing off to England for a month’s worth of […]
[Happy 70th birthday to Ray Manzarek, the pride of DePaul University …] Busy, busy busy: Besides the sold-out concert at the Music Box @ Fonda featuring the Airborne Toxic Event, the Henry Clay People and Rademacher, there are a couple nice record-release shows: Lemon Sun [pictured] rocks the Troubadour in support of its latest, “Run […]
Three-quarters of Avi Buffalo (“or Avi Buffalo Music,” the barefooted 18-year-old frontman tells the crowd in a voice you’re not sure has hurdled puberty yet) is still in high school, but five minutes into the Long Beach band’s set you’ve forgotten that, at their age, proms and final exams ought to be bigger concerns than […]
[It was 45 years ago today … that the Beatles played their first American concert, in Washington D.C.] Orenda Fink [pictured] was just in town in late November, for a one-off reunion show with Maria Taylor as Azure Ray. Now she’s back (playing Bordello, with Whispertown 2000 and others) and has some new material in […]
