Incoming: Lucinda Williams, Wild Child, Scavenger Hunt, Young Creatures, Mea Culpa, Avid Dancer, Banta, Miranda Sings, Lyle Lovett, Jherek Bischoff, Sales, EDJ, Gal Pals, Wet & Reckless, David Cook, the Vim Dicta, Kindness, Flight Facilities, Alice Boman, the Black Ryder, Langhorne Slim, Susanna Hoffs, Aimee Mann, Cathedrals, Taking Back Sunday, Caribou, Mali Music, The Suffers, […]
Scenes and friends from Joel Jerome’s Echo Park neighborhood and surrounding environs star in the new video for “Everybody Wants Somebody,” the epic and uplifting seven-minute jam from the album “Psychedelic Thriftstore Folk.” [Stream it here.] Jerome, of course, is Joel Morales, the founding member of Hawthorne pop band who has segued into a new […]
Your Friday night show choices: â–º Omaha emo greats Cursive, with a deluxe reissue of its lauded 2003 album “The Ugly Organ” having been released just before the first of the year, headlines the Echoplex. Beach Slang and Twinsmith support. â–º Austin indie-poppers Wild Child visit the Roxy Theatre, joined by Desert Noises and Flower […]
Twelve years since their last album and 16 years since their last in their original lineup, British rockers Blur announced today that they would release “The Magic Whip” on April 28. The spark for the new songs was ignited in 2013 when the band — Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree — went into […]
Great Wednesday ahead: â–º With his seventh album “Kings & Queens of the Underground” and the autobiography “Dancing With Myself” having been released in October, Billy Idol headlines the Wiltern. It’s the first of a two-night stand, and Broncho supports. â–º Panthar [see “Ghost Rocket”] celebrates its first release with a show at the Satellite, […]
Palma Violets roared out of the U.K. in 2013 with “180,” their debut album of raging guitars and shout-along choruses. The quartet — Alexander “Chilli” Jesson, Samuel Thomas Fryer, Jeffrey Peter Mayhew and William Martin Doyle — today announced their follow-up, “Danger in the Club,” would be out May 5. It was produced by John […]
The Black Ryder’s long-awaited sophomore album “The Door Behind the Door” is like floating down a slow-moving river on a murky night, all surroundings amorphous and the shoreline indistinct. After 50-plus minutes, though, you’ve gone nowhere, but it was a helluva ride. Like dozens of now-anonymous dream-pop bands who’ve issued long-players since shoegazing emerged as […]
Alien space babes, black-dressed men and a hairless cat—we’ll have some of whatever Panthar is drinking, thank you. The L.A. psych-rock/new wave quintet of Sheila Louise, Jared Caldwell, Douglas Hargrave, Lauren Kop and Colin Ambulance collaborated with director Jessy Jamboree (aka Jessy Meeker) and makeup artist Heather Galipo on the video for the debut single […]
Enjoy your Presidents’ Day: â–º Pop quintet Charming Liars, the L.A.-based London transplants, headline the Roxy Theatre, supported by Irontom and Bad Romantics. Above, Charming Liars’ video for “The Desperation.” â–º Electro-pop quintet Copper the Bet celebrate the release of their EP “Champagne” with a show at the Viper Room, where The People play a […]
Incoming: Chinese New Year Festival, Air & Style Festival (Kendrick Lamar, Diplo, Phantogram, Flaming Lips, Steve Aoki, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Sleigh Bells, more), Avid Dancer, Banta, Scavenger Hunt, Young Creatures, Charming Liars, Fire in the Hamptons, the Parlor Mob, Monogem, Billy Idol, Over the Rhine, Peter Himmelman, No Parents, the Beta Machine, […]
