Arcade Fire returns Oct. 29 with the double-album “Reflektor” via Merge, but the Grammy-winning band always seems to have something up their sleeve when it comes to promoting a new release. This time they’ve gone into the studio with DFA founder and LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy to record the album, and we get a […]
The show lineup for Tuesday: ‣ AFI, with the new album “Burials” due on Oct. 22, warms up for a U.S. tour with a date at the Troubadour (they’ll be back to the play Fonda the day the album is released). Above, the video for “17 Crimes.” ‣ Long-running Seattle indie-rockers Minus the Bear headline […]
Rock show, anyone? Nothing fancy here, except L.A. quartet Great White Buffalo working up a sweat with their single “Thanks for Nothing.” Sounding very much like the no-frills alternative rock bands of the 1990s and armed with guitar riffs we wish we could bottle and sell (except GWB has beaten us to it), the foursome […]
Your Monday menu: ‣ Pixies begin their four-night stint in L.A. with the first of three nights at the El Rey Theatre, with Meg Myers as support. ‣ Austra stop by the Echoplex in support of their latest album “Olympia.” Diana and Telepathe open. ‣ And downstairs, Tobacco headlines the Echo. Zackey Force Funk also […]
Incoming: Pixies, Meg Myers, Together Pangea, Austra, Ariana Grande, OneRepublic, Minus the Bear, MGMT, Julia Holter, the Mission UK, AFI, Boz Scaggs, ON AN ON, Meiko, St. Lucia, the Zombies, Jonathan Rice, Jimmy Cliff, Dave Stewart, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Body/Head, Titus Andronicus, AlunaGeorge, the Jacksons, Local Natives, Jose James, Morgan Page, Matt Wertz, Alice in […]
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday … ‣ It’ll be another day of all-star hip-hop and holograms – Eazy-E appeared with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony last night, and ODB is going to rise from the dead tonight – at the Rock the Bells at the San Manuel Amphitheater. Wu-Tang Clan, Dilated Peoples, Freddie Gibbs, Deltron 3030, Joey Bada$$ and Action […]
‣ Talib Kweli Kid Culi, KRS-One, A-Trak, Pusha T and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – along with triple-digit temperatures – await at Rock the Bells at the San Manual Amphitheater. Set times here. Stay cool. ‣ Old-school soul emulators Vintage Trouble, fresh off a Leno appearance, headline the El Rey Theatre. That’s their video for “Pelvis Pusher,” […]
Friday frolics: ‣ ZZ Ward has graduated to headlining tours – she visits the House of Blues behind her album “Til the Casket Drops,” with the Wild Feathers and James Bay supporting. ‣ Big night for Anticon at the Echo and Echoplex; the label celebrates its 15-year anniversary with performances from Baths, Why?, Jel, D33J, Daedelus, […]
Although it was cool of Sleigh Bells – the Brooklyn duo comprised of Derek Miller and Alexis Kruass – to direct their own video for new single “Bitter Rivals” through the Creators Project, it isn’t distracting enough to sway one from comparing them to the Ting Tings. Sleigh Bells’ mashup of R&B, pop, punk and electronica […]
As previously announced, Nika Roza Danilova – aka Zola Jesus – is preparing the release for her forthcoming album “Versions,” an album of 10 Zola Jesus originals reinterpreted by orchestral arrangements by JG Thirlwell (Foetus). And before any of her fans could pout because of the lack of more original songs, Danilova made sure to include […]
