Your sweet Wednesday selection of shows: ‣ North Carolina folk rockers the Avett Brothers have a new album on the way – “Magpie and the Dandelion” will be out next week, and the band plays the Shrine Auditorium tonight, with Nicholas David opening. ‣ State to State and the Vim Dicta head up a big night […]
Garage-rock from New York City. Yes, it’s inevitable Skaters would be drawing comparisons to the Strokes, especially with the way singer Michael Ian Cummings tosses off lyrics like cigarette butts. Not quite the swaggering, black-clad garage-rockers your cool uncle likes, Skaters at times sound like a more sober FIDLAR (your call on whether that’s a […]
Incoming: The Waterboys, Fiona Apple, Blake Mills, Gogol Bordello, 2Cellos, Little Green Cars, Tashaki Miyaki, Max & the Moon, Haunted Summer, Spirit Vine, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Daughter, Natalie Maines, Liam Finn, Spirit Animal, Fever the Ghost, Matthew Santos, the Maine, the Avett Brothers, Tom Odell, Bon Jovi, Culture Collide Festival, the Raveonettes, […]
Fare for a fabulous Friday: ‣ Long-running Britpop quartet Travis visits the Wiltern Theatre behind their new album “Where You Stand.” That’s their chilly video for “Moving,” above. ‣ Trevor Powers brings his project Youth Lagoon to the First Unitarian Church, where Pure X opens. ‣ His new album “Imitations” out last month, Mark Lanegan […]
Not only are some of the landscapes beautiful in the (rather hodgepodge but trippy) video for Jonathan Wilson’s “Dear Friend,” but owing to the singer-guitarist’s remarkable solos and production, the song creates soundscapes to match. In seven-plus minutes, “Dear Friend” evokes the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Neil Young without plundering any of them – Wilson […]
Becky Black and Maya Miller are hardly overnight sensations, but through four albums as the Pack A.D. the duo has been consistently sensational. The Vancouver, B.C., garage-rock duo got their start back in the dark ages of 2007, predating the big wave of rock two-pieces who dared to tiptoe through the footsteps of the White […]
Thursday things: ‣ Singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson holds forth at the Wiltern behind his newest, “Last of the Great Pretenders.” His video for “Kinks Shirt,” above, was directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. ‣ Canadian dream-poppers Young Galaxy visit the Echo behind their latest album “Ultramarine.” Mister Lies and Silver Swans open. ‣ Rock trio the Cold and […]
Those Darlins‘ third studio album “Blur the Lines” may be the most low-key in their current catalog, but the fine-tuning they’ve done on their bombastic fusion of garage rock and outlaw country is at their most polished this time around. Songs like “Oh God” features Jessi Darlin in her most ponderous state while other ditties […]
Here’s what’s up for your Wednesday: ‣ Moby’s new album “Innocents” came out this week, and tonight he starts a run of shows at the Fonda Theatre. The less said about the video for “The Perfect Life” the better, but there it is, for you to ponder with your morning bagel. ‣ Depeche Mode returns […]
Considering what’s in the news today, there’s a special poignancy to Laura Veirs’ new video for “America,” a not-so-subtle condemnation of gun culture in the U.S. The song is from Veirs new album “Warp & Weft,” her ninth, which was recorded while the Portland-based singer-songwriter was pregnant with her second child. “I’m haunted by the […]
