Here’s your Thursday: ‣ Los Lonely Boys visit the Troubadour behind their latest album “Revelation,” with Thom Chacon supporting. ‣ Late last year, Action Bronson released a hilarious new mixtape titled “Blue Chips 2.” Tonight the NYC rapper’s “Blue Chips Tour” visits the Echoplex along with Trash Talk. ‣ Harlem-bred rapper Immortal Technique, his new […]
Cassorla – the solo venture of multi-faceted guitarist Ben Cassorla – earned a lot of attention when he teased his new EP by issuing a song collaboration with “Parks and Recreation’s” Aubrey Plaza. (The video’s a treat too, with Plaza saxophoning it in on Echo Park Lake.) There are plenty more of Cassorla’s friends on […]
The Bots have been at it since they were kids … except guitarist Mikaiah Lei and drummer Anaiah Lei still kinda are. They’re 20 and 16 years old, respectively, but they have the souls of their elder blues rockers, and it’s not hard to invoke the name of Jimi Hendrix (and here we genuflect) during […]
Welcome to February and its first wicked busy Monday: ‣ Baltimore electro-pop band Future Islands, recently signed to 4AD and with the album “Singles” coming in March, plays a sold-out shows at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. That’s the video for “Seasons (Waiting on You),” above. ‣ Moses Sumney heads up a special […]
Incoming: Future Islands, Young the Giant, Kan Wakan, Moses Sumney, Kera & the Lesbians, Busy Living, the Bots, the New Electric Sound, Fever the Ghost, Mad Caddies, the Belle Brigade, Lucius, Step Brothers, Vitamin String Quartet, Shooter Jennings, Mother Falcon, Los Lonely Boys, Action Bronson, Immortal Technique, Citizen Cope, Baths, Delorean, Mary Chapin Carpenter, White […]
Can’t wait to see Jagwar Ma at Coachella? Watching the Australian psych-dance outfit dance underneath a rainbow-colored sky full of stars in the Californian Mojave dessert might have to do for now. Directed by frontman Jona Ma’s brother David, the clip visually accompanies the Madchester-happy track “Uncertainty.” It’s the very track in which Jagwar May pulled […]
A strong Saturday night:Â ‣Â If you’re up for a night of free music and fun downtown, the Chinese New Year Festival kicks off at Chinatown’s Central Plaza tonight. The LA Weekly Live Music Stage featuring a Buzz Bands LA-curated lineup includes the Happy Hollows, Parade of Lights, Line & Circle, Raw Geronimo, A House for […]
There’s five decades’ worth of sweet soul music wrapped up in the vocals of Jessica Childress, and more than a little bit of tenacity, too. A native of Lancaster who attended Pepperdine University, she’s a refugee of the television show “The Voice” (“I want to marry her,” Adam Levine blurted after she nailed Bruno Mars’ […]
Your fabulous Friday: ‣ Mayer Hawthorne does his thing at the Hollywood Palladium. That’s the pop-soul man’s video for “Reach Out Richard,” above. ‣ Hey, Ash is back. The Irish rockers hit the Echo for the first L.A. show in many moons, supported by Deaf Havana and Dreamland. ‣ Electro whiz kid Robert DeLong plays […]
Life at the mall can get pretty interesting sometimes, right? So it is with Chromeo’s Dave 1 and P-Thugg – joined here by guest Chaz Bundick (Toro Y Moi) – as escapades escalate and high jinks happen and, as we suspected occurs all the time in malls, mannequins come to life. The song is from […]
