Orange County-based Well Hung Heart continue to prove that they love rock ’n’ roll at least as much as Joan Jett. The band — singer-keyboardist Greta Valenti and U.K ex-pat Robin Davey on guitar and bass, abetted by drummer Kevin Conroy — has unleashed two furious full-lengths of old-school hard stuff, 2013’s “Young Enough to […]
Thursday’s big deals: ► Todd Rundgren does a second night at the Roxy Theatre behind his new album “Global.” ► Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson performs at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in support of his new album “Love Songs for Robots.” ► His new album “Chrissybaby Forever ” out this week, Christopher Owens […]
Melodic riff-loving duo Livingmore released a new single this week called “Little Bird.” It’s a summery song about “just watching your path unfold, however it may, and gaining something positive from the things that happen that are good and the things that are bad,” says Spencer Livingston. For the video, directed by Omeed Boghraty, Livingston […]
Tamaryn, the dream-pop outfit fronted by New Zealand-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Tamaryn Brown, will headline the sixth installment of the Skirball Cultural Center’s popular “Into the Night” series on Friday, July 17. The show is celebration of the Skirball’s recently opened exhibition “Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution,” a retrospective of photographs, art, […]
Wow, Wednesday: ► U2 winds up its run of “Innocence + Experience Tour” dates at the Forum. ► Sufjan Stevens does the first of two nights at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion behind his new album “Carrie & Lowell.” ► The iconic Todd Rundgren visits the Roxy Theatre; on this tour, he’s been mixing in older […]
Pop-punk rabble-rousers of FIDLAR are back, and not a moment too soon. The band — Zac Carper, Brandon Schwartzel and brothers Elvis and Max Kuehn — today announced their second full-length, “Too,” would be out Sept. 4 via Mom+Pop Music. The album, the follow-up to the quartet’s 2013 debut, was produced in Nashville by Jay Joyce (Zac […]
Have a fine Tuesday: ► Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters, who’ve mixed Led Zeppelin songs with new material at recent tour stops, hold forth at the Greek Theatre, with JD McPherson opening. ► Local folk-rockers Dawes play the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery behind their new album “All Your Favorite Bands,” which […]
Singer-songwriter Lisa Sonoda is a Bay Area native with an impressive online arsenal of cover songs — Feist, Mazzy Star, St. Vincent, Lykke Li, Of Montreal, Angel Olsen, Lana Del Rey and Elliott Smith are among the artists whose work she has tackled in her home recordings. All of which serve as reference points for the […]
Incoming: Make Music Pasadena, Delta Spirit, Northern American, Aurora, Hunny, Tennis System, the Crash Kings, Girlpool, Jack Garratt, Dawes, the Kids in the Hall, Walk off the Earth, Embrace, Starsailor, Robert Plant, Mother Mother, Songhoy Blues, Badflower, Meiko, Nedelle Torrisi, Leikeli47, Ron Sexsmith, U2, Sufjan Stevens, Todd Rundgren, Zella Day, Andy Grammer, No Age, the […]
Singer-songwriter Josh Rouse has crafted a catalog of starkly honest songs that, to generalize, examine the human condition — his and by transference his listeners’. His 11th full-length “The Embers of Time,” written in his home base of the past decade, the Mediterranean outpost of Valencia, Spain, was realized during what the 43-year-old calls an existential […]
