Ah, the Monday madness: ‣ Justin Bieber plays the Lakers Championship Celebration at the Staples Center. Oh wait. It’s just regular Biebs show. ‣ Australia’s Amethyst Amelia Kelly, better known as Iggy Azalea, headlines the Echoplex. Travi$ Scott supports. Above is video evidence that she can “Bounce.” ‣ Your Monday night residencies for June roar […]
Incoming: Justin Bieber, Booker T, Patty Griffin, Rachael Yamagata, Bosnian Rainbows, Com Truise, Robert Plant, Mavis Staples, David Ford, Ozomatli, Colin Stetson, the Soft Pack, Baths, Allah Las, Mike Epps, Erykah Badu, Wanda Jackson, Everclear, Beyoncé, Paper Route, Donavon Frankenreiter, Twin Shadow, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Snoop Dogg, Bob Log III, R. Kelly, Damian […]
‣ Big night at the Hollywood Bowl, where duets rule the day. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell perform behind their recent release “Old Yellow Moon,” and She & Him – the pairing of M. Ward and Zoey Deschanel – play songs from their new album “Volume 3.” ‣ Iron & Wine visits the First Unitarian Church. […]
Bosnian Rainbows are the rare all-star group that sounds like all-stars in their own right, instead of hints of their members’ previous projects. Their self-titled debut, which comes out next week via Sargent House, is a taut, vicious affair that draws from post-punk, hardcore and dark electro to sound like some sort of lost ’80s […]
Grouplove’s happy-pill of of a debut album sold a tick over 150,000 tablets, a total that seems a little low considering the radio play afforded the L.A.-based quintet, which included a No. 1 song in “Tongue Tied.” Maybe people took the album title “Never Trust a Happy Song” literally? Or maybe the whole collectivist exuberance […]
It’s been three years since Austra released their highly regarded debut “Feel It Break.” Fans of the Toronto-based band fronted by Katie Stelmanis won’t be let down by their sophomore release “Olympia.” Opting to ditch the programming and loops, Austra recorded live in the studio to reference everything from Trax Records classic cuts to Yazoo’s “Upstairs at […]
A heavy-duty Thursday: ‣ Joseph Arthur visits the Troubadour behind his ambitious new album “The Ballad of Boogie Christ,” a psych-soul record with horns, back-up singers and roots, conceptually, in David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character. Ben Haper and Juliette Lewis are expected to play in Arhthur’s band tonight. Above, the slideshow video for “All the […]
No more need to fear inmates anymore. At least that’s what we get from this Simon Cahn-directed video for Hanni El Khatib’s doo-wop number “Penny.” The Los Angeles-based garage rocker may have surprised fans with this pop ditty, but it doesn’t get much edgier than getting these orange suit-clad men to empathize with his sentiments. […]
Weird things may happen if you ignore those “No Trespassing” signs. At least that’s what SoCal quintet Warships learn in their Frederik Boll- and Jon Shoer-directed video for “Heater.” It all starts with a box (everything mystical always starts with mysterious box) and a cloud of smoke. Ladies appear out of thin air and the band […]
We’re pretty much suckers for anything related to man’s best friend, so the video for Local Natives’ “You & I” had us on the edge of our seats rooting for a miracle of veterinary medicine to save the Last Dog Earth. The poignant video, directed by Daniel Portrait with Kamp Grizzly, casts the whole concept […]
