Your Monday evening fare: ‣ One more time: The Rolling Stones’ “50 and Counting Tour” visits Staples Center. ‣ Brooklyn synth-pop Holy Ghost! teams up with L.A.’s Classixx for a sold-out show at the Troubadour. That’s Holy Ghost!’s new video for “Dumb Disco Ideas,” above. ‣ The Little Ones headline It’s a School Night at […]
Lots of things have happened for the Parson Red Heads in the last few years. They made the trek from Los Angeles to their native Oregon, settling in Portland,; they released the lovely album “Yearling;” and the band’s married couple Evan and Brette Marie Way had a baby boy. Even with a baby in tow, […]
“I’ve been starting over for a long time / I’m not ready for the second wave / The weight of seeing through,” sings Mikal Cronin on the MCII’s opening track “Weight.” However, Cronin’s delivery is chipper on this track and, for that matter, most of the rest of follow-up to his self-titled debut. Cronin’s first […]
New York City-born, UCLA-educated singer Gabrielle Wortman launched her career as rock frontwoman before segueing to the electronic project Tempest (aka TEMP3ST). However, upon meeting fellow New Yorker Jason Rosen – the ex-keyboardist and guitarist for the pop-rockers Honor Society – things took a turn. And from the sound of their new side project Smoke […]
In the thick of it on a Thursday: ‣ Detroit indie-pop band Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. plays the El Rey Theatre behind its new EP “Patterns” [that’s the new video for “Dark Water,” above], with and Bad Suns opening. ‣ His new album “Mala” having come out in March, Devendra Banhart headlines the Fonda Theatre. […]
‣ The Rolling Stones swing back through SoCal for a few dates on their “50 and Counting” tour, the first tonight at the Honda Center in Anaheim. ‣ Ex-Sneaker Pimp Chris Corner brings his IAMX to the Fonda Theatre behind the new album “The Unified Theory.” That’s the cool video for “The Unified theory,” above. […]
Let’s get the week started right, shall we? ‣ Buzz Bands LA presents tonight’s installment of the Criminal Hygiene residency at the Bootleg Bar, where Moses Campbell, Dirt Dress and the Cigarette Bums support (and Liv Marsico does a DJ set). ‣Â Serena Ryder, the Toronto-based singer behind hit “Stompa” and whose album “Harmony” is […]
Incoming: The Rolling Stones, KROQ Weenie Roast, Serena Ryder, Motorhead, Sara Bareilles, Bob Schneider, Gold Panda, Devendra Banhart, Andrew McMahon, Matt Costa, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., PAPA, Appleseed Cast, Andy Grammer, Richard Thompson, Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale, Seven Saturdays, Ariel Pink, Sonny & the Sunsets, Fabolous, Sea Wolf, Digitalism, Filligar, Big Boi, Quadron, the […]
Happy Mother’s Day and all that: ‣ Tom Jones is back for a second night at the Troubadour. ‣ David Lynch protegé Chrysta Bell [that’s her video for “Friday Night Fly,” above] plays the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ‣ Secret Chiefs 3 bring their cinematic, genre-mashing rock to the Bootleg Bar. ‣ And […]
[pictured: his view from Griffith Park, via Instagram] We’ve heard Danny Choi’s smooth chops before when we became smitten with the warm R&B tune “Blow.” Now Choi – aka Ghost Loft – has a new track on the new compilation from the French label Kitsuné, “America 2.” Ghost Loft’s “So High” emits such euphoric summer-night […]
