Incoming: The Ting Tings, Mates of State, Wolf Alice, Holychild, Wildling, the Fontaines, Hotel Hot Burrito, Ivory Deville, the Vaselines, Mini Mansions, Eric McFadden, Paul Bergmann, the Entrance Band, Blackbird Blackbird, Wale, We Are Scientists, the Hood Internet, Patti Smith, Sam Smith, Body/Head, the Warlocks, Crash Kings, the Haden Triplets, Brooke Fraser, Susanna Hoffs, Magic […]
Sunday, and it’s no day to rest: â–º Go Betty Go is officially back, the L.A. quartet releasing its first new music, “The Reboot” EP, next week and headling the Roxy Theatre tonight, joined by the Dollyrots, A Pretty Mess and Images. Above, Go Betty Go’s video for “It Haunts You Now.” â–º Spandau Ballet […]
A stellar Saturday night awaits: â–º Coachella-bound Bad Suns, the L.A. quartet whose 2014 debut album “Language & Perspective” belied the band’s youth, headline the El Rey Theatre, supported by Coasts and Maudlin Strangers. â–º Touring the U.S. for the first time in 30 years, Spandau Ballet headlines the Wiltern. â–º Street Joy celebrates the […]
The raging punk-cum-blues of the band Virginia Reed isn’t the work of anybody named Virginia at all — the L.A. quartet is helmed by singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Keith Hendriksen, who in the current lineup is surrounded by John Klein, Jeff Watson and Bryan Hamilton. The band’s moniker derives from a 1940s-era portrait of a woman that Hendricksen […]
Los Angeles’ latest sibling band has debuted its first sampling of sublime soul. The trio going by the name James Davis finds twin sisters Jessika Quynn Reynolds and Erika “Rey” Reynolds teaming up with younger brother Auston James Reynolds on the super-smooth “Better Than You Are,” which was recorded by Auston in his bedroom. The […]
Big Friday night, near and far: â–º Night Terrors of 1927 celebrate the release of their debut full-length “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” with a show at the Roxy Theatre, supported by FMLYBND. [See NTO1927’s “When You Were Mine”] â–º Punk-rock rabblerousers FIDLAR take a break from working on their second album to headline a show […]
King Tuff’s latest album “Black Moon Spell” is pretty much the most fun you can have while imagining being stoned and eating dry breakfast cereal while watching cartoons with the sound off and the stereo blaring in 1973. Unless, of course, you were doing all that in 1973, in which case you nod your head […]
A sweet selection of shows for your Thursday: â–º With a new album, “Eclipse,” coming March 17, Twin Shadow headlines the Troubadour, supported by Lolawolf. â–º WATERS [see “I Feel Everything”] released the “It All Might Be OK” EP last fall, is prepping a full-length for release this spring and rocks the Roxy Theatre tonight, […]
Ever since they arrived in L.A. from Provo, Utah, toting their guitars and suitcases full of cardigans, the New Electric Sound has been pumping new plasma into the vein of “Happy Days”-era rock ’n’ roll, making taut, surf-inspired ditties that would have sounded just as good blaring from the jukebox at Mel’s Diner back in […]
It’s been seven years since Swedish folk singer José González released a solo album, although the music world has heard plenty from him in that span, owing to the two albums and two EPs he released with Tobias Winterkorn as Junip, along with other collaborations. Gonzalez’s new album “Vestiges & Claws” will be out Feb. […]
