Happy Monday: ‣ Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers play six shows in L.A. this week and they kick it all off at the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Pete Yorn and J.D. King are the Olms and they headline the Troubadour in support of a debut album together. We are the West open. That’s the Olms’ video for […]
Incoming: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, the Olms, Lenka, Crystal Fighters, Willy Moon, Big Black Delta, KING, Bjork, Jewel, Parquet Courts, Mihael Paskalev, Ron Sexsmith, Capital Cities, Meg Myers, Ceremony, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, the Black Lips, Trash Talk, the Virgins, Generationals, the Boxer Rebellion, Iggy & the Stooges, Rocket From the Crypt, the Drums, […]
Your Sunday shows: ‣ It’s a big day at San Manual Amphitheater, where Mumford & Sons play their Gentlemen of the Road festival event that kicks off at 3 p.m.. The headliners go on at sunset, preceded by Eels, Michael Kiwanuka and Mystery Jets. ‣Â Bjork does the first of three L.A. shows tonight, headlining the […]
Happy June: ‣ Make Music Pasadena, the annual one-day festival of free concerts, goes off at multiple venues throughout Pasadena, with YACHT, We Are Scientists, Robert DeLong, Tanlines, Taken by Trees, Superhumanoids, Las Cafeteras, Hunter Hunted, the Peach Kings, the New Limb, Radar Bros., Torreblanca, High Places, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, the Dustbowl Revival, […]
Things are not always in black and white, but there are meanings within the shadows, and Trixie Whitley has been one to sing every emotion treading space between light and darkness. Her stunning debut “Fourth Corner” (out now on Strong Blood records) appropriately touches on every every facet of blues, soul and rock, proving the […]
“What’s Your Name” may be a common question – especially the morning after a one-night stand – but it’s also the name of NO’s latest single which is now available on their 7-inch single with “Eleven Eleven” via White Iris Records. And just like their romantically dramatic video for breakout single “Stay With Me” off […]
On her “Daughter in the Choir” EP, as well as the first single she released after signing to Atlantic, Meg Myers exhibited a feral intensity, whether she was venting in a straight-ahead rock song or in her producer Doctor Rosen Rosen’s electro-addled world. Her new song “Cold,” however, takes Myers back to her singer-songwriter […]
Thursday’s shows, with two very big and very worthy charity events happening on the same night (somebody needs to coordinate these things, right?): ‣ Stones Fest LA salutes the music of that little band that recently played the Echoplex. The benefit for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, tonight at the Fonda Theatre, will feature the […]
Songwriter Robert Fleming’s now-out-of-the-bedroom project Victory made its full-length debut in April with “Victory Is Music,” a declarative that rings true over the album’s 10 tracks of groove-laden, electro-tinged blues. All kinds of influences come to mind – Spoon, Beck, the Dandy Warhols – but what Victory has done is mind its songs, keeping them […]
Bloody Death Skull makes music that doesn’t quite match up with their very metal-sounding name, but in no way does that imply Daiana Feuer, Gerard Olson, Beth Breen, Donna Suppipat (also of Tommy Santee Klaws) and Andres Renteria are shy with the subject matters on their latest EP “Oh My Gosh.” From “Girls Like You” […]
