It’s Tuesday, as good a day as any to crash a show: ► Joy Williams, formerly one-half of Grammy-winning duo the Civil Wars, headlines the El Rey Theatre. Williams’ solo debut “Venus” is due later this summer, and above is the Sanji- and Ben Redmond-directed video for “Woman (Oh Mama).” Ruby Amanfu opens the show. […]
Monday night madness: ► Lana Del Rey and Courtney Love, teaming up for “The Endless Summer Tour,” play the Hollywood Bowl. ► With their debut album, “My Love Is Cool” due in late June, U.K. rockers Wolf Alice [pictured below] headline the Roxy Theatre, supported by Gateway Drugs. Above, Wolf Alice’s video for “Giant Peach.” […]
Incoming: Lana Del Rey, Wolf Alice, the Tallest Man on Earth, Tanlines, Jessie J, Pretty Sister, the Milk Carton Kids, Dead Sara, Jimmy Gnecco, Neil Diamond, Joy Williams, San Fermin, Prides, Emery, Susanne Sundfor, Shakey Graves, Too Short, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Rocco Deluca, Daniel Lanois, Hiatus Kaiyote, Trapdoor Social, the Diamond Light, Herbert […]
Sunday’s fun stuff: ► Happy, 10-year anniversary, Part Time Punks. The popular weekly night celebrates with Annabella (the original singer of Bow Wow Wow), Geneva Jacuzzi and French Vanilla, all playing at PTP’s regular Sunday night station, the Echo. ► Austin two-piece Black Pistol Fire bring their dirty blues to the Satellite. Above, the duo’s […]
Quite a Saturday we have ahead: ► The KROQ Weenie Roast goes off at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, with Muse, AWOLNATION, Vance Joy, X Ambassadors, James Bay, Saint Motel, Of Monsters & Men, Big Data, Walk the Moon, Florence & the Machine, All Time Low, Cold War Kids, Death Cab For Cutie and Panic! At […]
Shows for a fabulous Friday: ► Muse [pictured below], with a new album “Drones” en route and the new single “Dead Inside” reaching No. 1, headline the the Mayan Theatre. ► Electro-pop artist Mystery Skulls holds down the party at the Echoplex, supported by Meishi Smile, Sage Caswell and Plaster Cast. ► Mary Timony-led trio […]
Tanlines are a whole lot better at making ’80s mope-pop than they are at shooting hoops, as their new video for “Pieces” indicates. Here, Eric Emm and Jesse Cohen bring their weak sauce to a 2-on-2 basketball tournament in Venice Beach and get schooled even worse than they would in a 50-and-over bloggers’ league. And […]
Thursday’s things: ► L.A. quintet Fool’s Gold [pictured below] celebrate the release of their new album “Flying Lessons,” the band’s third full-length, with a show at the Troubadour. The Happy Hollows and Line & Circle support. ► U.K. singer-songwriter James Bay visits the Fonda Theatre behind his debut album “Chaos and the Calm,” with Elle […]
Like their 2012 debut, Dead Sara’s sophomore album “Pleasure to Meet You” takes no prisoners, vigorously and almost defiantly rooting around in hard rock’s musty corners for new knives to sharpen and teeth to bare. It was not an easy path for the L.A. quartet from their first album to their new one, so if […]
► The Waterboys headline the Fonda Theatre behind their new “Modern Blues,” their first new album of original material in eight years. Connor Kennedy and Minstrel open. ► Elvis Perkins holds forth t the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery behind his new album “I Aubade.” Above, Perkins’ video for “Hogus Pogus.” ► The Flamin’ […]
