Since they debuted over four years ago, L.A. duo the Young Romans have dispensed their bright, nimble indie-pop on a full-length and a couple of EPs, and seen their work used in a host of TV shows and films, including “Drop Dead Diva,” “Pretty Little Liars,” “the Fosters,” “The Lying Game” and “Salmon Fishing In […]
Incoming: Desert Daze, Zane Carney, Saul Williams, Odessa, Dorothy, Winter, Barrows, Nothing But Thieves, Matt & Kim, Waxahatchee, Clockwise, From Indian Lakes, Robert Francis, Jose Gonzalez, Milo Greene, Magic Wands, the Orb, the Romany Rye, Mastodon, Distant Cousins, Buck 65, the Soft Moon, Sleater-Kinney, Keren Ann, Aluna George, Big Data, They Might Be Giants, Kinky, […]
Happy Saturday: â–º It’s Day 2 of Stagecoach, with Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Gregg Allman, ZZ Top and more at the Empire Polo Field in Indio. [Set times at the end of this post.] â–º The Kaiser Chiefs rock the Wiltern behind their latest album “Education, Education, Education & War,” with We Are Scientists opening. […]
Ahead of their just-announced date at HARD Summer, the Chemical Brothers — Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons — are returning with their first album in five years. “Born in the Echoes” will be out July 17, and it features guest turns from Q-Tip, Beck, St. Vincent, Cate Le Bon and Ali Love (a video is […]
So much good tonight I can hardly stand it: â–º The Stagecoach festival kicks off a three-day run in Indio, with Tim McGraw, Merle Haggard, Kacey Musgraves, Sturgill Simpson, the Lone Bellow and more. [Set times at the end of this post.] â–º On his way to play Stagecoach on Saturday, Rock and Roll Hall […]
None other than British luminary Don Letts directs the video for U.K. rabble-rousers Palma Violets’ new song “English Tongue,” which stars Paul Kaye (“Game of Thrones”) and answers the age-old question “What if you went to church and a mosh pit broke out?” The song is from the band’s second album “Danger in the Club” […]
Have you ever had a friend who just seems too repressed to be happy? Somebody you wish would come out of his or her shell? That’s what the video for the new StaG song “Hide a Few” is about. Directed by Taylor Phillips and written and produced by Connie Peterson, it stars Miki Matteson as […]
Things for your Thursday: â–º Georgia rockers Drive-By Truckers visit the Regent Theater. â–º Long-running indie-rocker Matt Pond PA, who has a new album “The State of Gold” coming in June, visits the Troubadour on a tour celebrating the 10-year anniversary of his best album “Several Arrows Later” (getting the deluxe reissue treatment). Young Buffalo […]
Some tears were shed on the local scene in November when indie-rockers Moses Campbell announced they were through, but that their discursive energy is living on in Moaning. The new trio features Sean Solomon, Pascal Stevenson and Andrew MacKelvie from Moses Campbell, and today, via video, they released their first proper song (which will be […]
Speedy Ortiz’s eagerly anticipated sophomore album “Foil Deer” came out this week, and it does not disappoint. The Massachusetts indie-rockers — Sadie Dupuis, Darl Ferm, Mike Falcone and new addition Devin McKnight — unleash a primal, fuzzed-out tour de force with some sharp observations on cultural matters, as well as some strong affirmations (“I’m not bossy / […]
