Happy 5/5, here are some fun shows: ► Irish rockers Kodaline headline the Wiltern behind their new album “Coming Up for Air,” which came out in April. Above, their video for “The One.” ► Los Lobos, joined by Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin and the Guilty Ones, do a benefit show for public television station […]
Roots-rockers Infantree are making their new album … in the most literal sense. The Valley-bred quartet, now independent after releasing a couple of full-lengths on Neil Young’s Vapor Records, recorded their new album “Return to Zero” themselves. And now the band — Alex Vojdani, Donald Fisher, Matt Kronish and Jordan Avesar — are hand-cutting their own […]
Ain’t gonna make no joke at May 4 here, no I absolutely will not: ► Cillie Barnes [see “Symmetry” kicks off a residency at the Satellite, supported by Sun Drug, Draemings and the Grand Southern. ► Alt-rockers The Moth & the Flame and indie-pop outfit Freedom Fry are sharing this month’s residency at the Echo. […]
Incoming: Wango Tango, Cillie Barnes, The Moth & the Flame, Freedom Fry, Golden Coast, Mesmi, Los Lobos, Kodaline, the Moody Blues, MS MR, Thee Oh Sees, Reggie Watts, Gold Star, Other Lives, Mika, Max & the Moon, Gal Pals, Gaby Moreno, Puro Instinct, Steve Poltz, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Shlohmo, Esperanza Spalding, Local H, […]
Happy International Workers Day: ► They Might Be Giants have brought back Dial-a-Song, released the new album “Glean” in April, given away a live album as a free download, and now they visit downtown’s Regent Theater at the midway point of a long national tour. ► Sleater-Kinney is back for a second night at the […]
Your Thursday shows: ► Sleater-Kinney headlines the Hollywood Palladium behind their new album “No Cities to Love.” It’s the first of the trio’s two-night stand there, and Body/Head and Ian Rubbish open. Above, “A New Wave” hit’s “Bob’s Burgers.” ► French chanteuse Keren Ann will unveil some new material as well as perform selections from […]
Jutty Ranx continues to garner attention in global pop circles, even if Justin Taylor and his music aren’t household commodities in the U.S., or even his hometown. Of course, the promo for the song “Digital Love” — a collaboration between Finnish pop duo Tom & Hills and the L.A. artist — refers to Jutty Ranx as […]
Dutch Party’s laced-with-cool funk-pop debuted in December with two tracks from the mind and fingers of singer-songwriter Ken Franklin. With Dutch Party now playing around town as a five-piece, the band last week released its debut EP “Astral Nights,” which features those first two songs, “Paper Moon” and “Echo Girl” and four more, including the […]
Great lineup of Tuesday shows: ► Matt & Kim headline the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “New Glow.” Get there early for WATERS, who just dropped their sophomore album “What’s Real.” ► Waxahatchee rocks the Roxy behind this month’s release of the full-length “Ivy Tripp” (above the video for “Under a Rock”). Girlpool opens. […]
There’s nothing like some projectile vomiting to announce your long-awaited third album. That’s a disclaimer for the video above, “New Coke,” which is the first song to emerge from Echo Park’s experimental noise band HEALTH‘s new album, “Death Magic,” their first album since 2009’s “Get Color.” Since then, they recorded the soundtrack to the video […]
