Your slat for Wednesday: ‣ Las Vegas radio rockers Imagine Dragons, whose debut album “Night Visions” has gone platinum, does the first of two nights at the Palladium, supported by L.A.’s Nico Vega. That’s Isaac Halasima’s video for “Demons,” above, which is dedicated to the memory of band friend and 17-yera-old cancer victim Tyler Robinson. […]
There’s a certain anxiety in composer Julia Holter’s electronic experimentations – the feeling that, at any turn, a pop song could break out. And, probably, ruin the vibe. Holter, the Cal Arts product who came on the radar two years ago with the Euripides-inspired “Tragedy” and last year followed it with the mystical, devastating (in […]
Tuesday things: ‣ John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival headlines a solo night at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ Legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac continues their tour over at the Honda Center in Anaheim. ‣ Lissie stops by the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery for an intimate show featuring new songs off her forthcoming […]
Incoming: Make Music Pasadena, Lissie, John Fogerty, Cary Brothers, DIIV, Rainbow Jackson, Trixie Whitley, Fleetwood Mac, Junip, Imagine Dragons, Scott Weiland, Bilal, Stone Temple Pilots, Fear, United Ghosts, Suuns, John Talabot, Tame Impala, Chvrches, Tijuana Panthers, Peace, the Aggrolites, the Psychedelic Furs, !!!, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Tenors, Flying Lotus, Bjork, Mumford & Sons […]
L.A.’s dark electro duo MYPET may have a familiar face. Comprised of singer-songwriter Amy Kuney and producer Ray Brady, MYPET is on the complete opposite end of the musical spectrum for Kuney, whose songs (especially the notable 2008 album “Bird’s Eye View”) have been rooted in mostly folk-pop. Not unlike Meg Myers’ musical transformation after […]
There’s Amanda Jo Williams’ voice – a playful, birdlike instrument, flitting around her country-fried arrangements like an intrepid hummingbird. And then there’s what she’s saying; she delivers her lickety-split vignettes and stream-of-consciousness observations as if she expects you to be on the same page, immediately. If you missed her first three albums, it’s worth getting […]
In a broad view, the music of Seven Saturdays is all about Los Angeles – the emotional and geographical sprawl, the grandeur and the grit, the language the city speaks if you hold still long enough to listen. Native Angeleno and composer Jonathan Haskell embraces it all on “Seven Saturdays” (out next week), a collection […]
The last time we checked the Postelles out, they had just released their long-awaited debut, and now they’re back with sophomore release “”¦And It Shook Me.” The former Albert Hammond Jr.-produced record inevitably had them falling somewhere in between the Strokes and the Kooks, and the new record simply expands on those strong pop hooks. […]
It’s a packed Tuesday, y’all… ‣ The Black Angels roar through Los Angeles and headline the Mayan Theatre. Expect to hear some songs off of their new record “Indigo Meadow.” L.A.’s very own garage doo-wopper Hanni El Khatib supports alongside Parisian psych-rock trio Wall of Death. ‣ Australian electro duo the Presets play the Avalon in […]
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, all those graduation parties and the down time somewhere on the distant horizon the next three months: the new video for Handshakes’ single “Vacation.” The L.A. outfit’s sprightly power-pop song – think the Weezer or the Rentals with horns – is a giddy excursion that suggests everything you […]
