Your very busy Thursday: ‣ The fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods Show brings Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Anthrax, Stone Sour, the Dillinger Escape Plan and Halestorm to Club Nokia for a sold-out night of hard rock. ‣ The Killers (that’s their video for “Miss Atomic Bomb,” above) join up with the Felice Brothers for […]
Ready for a cool dip in the pool? The Picture and the Frame has you covered in their new video for the single “Okay” [which we fell for back in December]. On their new album “Reverb and Gin” (why is it we love that title?), the L.A. trio of singer-bassist Rose Shawhan, guitarist Rickett Baker […]
Happy 1st of May … ‣ Paramore visits the Wiltern behind its wildly popular new self-titled album. Fans are “Still Into You,” as the video suggests. ‣ The Killers do the first of two SoCal dates, this one at Honda Center. ‣ U.K. provocateurs (and masked men) Clinic, doing their first U.S. tour since 2010, […]
What would you do for love? Millions of singers ponder this question through their lyrics, but Travis‘ frontman, Fran Healy, shows what he’ll go through for simple love in this clip for their new single “Where You Stand.” As the band performs the title-track of their new album, Â Healy becomes a human art project just […]
Totally tubular Tuesday things: ‣ Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 roll through town and stop at the Troubadour in support of Hitchock’s latest album “Love From London.” Peter Buck supports. ‣ New York’s favorite tapping guitarist Marnie Stern headlines the Satellite in support of her latest album “The Chronicles of Marnia.” [That’s her video […]
Melissa Ann Sweat makes small things seem like big things. As Lady Lazarus, the poet-artist-musician deals in minimalist compositions that seem like folk tunes afloat in a slow-moving current – music that, like the new video for “Gleam,” seems to suggest a certain detachment from a world that’s moving too fast. It’s a relatable sentiment, […]
Last Monday of the month: ‣ Jonathan Bates’ Big Black Delta celebrates the release of its debut album by headlining It’s a School Night at Bardot. Shy Girls, Emma Ejwerts and the Last Internationale also play. Here’s BBD’s video for the single “Side of the Road,” and an update on how the album came to […]
Incoming: The Rolling Stones, the Killers, Metallica, Los Lobos, Paramore, HIM, Built to Spill, Metz, Alice Russell, Robyn Hitchcock, Marnie Stern, Killing Joke, Chad Valley, Big Black Delta, Clinic, Vietnam, Keaton Simons, Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, Javelin, Maps & Atlases, Little Boots, Pyyramids, Os Mutantes, Lisa Germano, Armin Van Buuren, Helmet, K’s Choice, Saint Motel, […]
Post-Stones Sunday things: ‣ Derde Verde celebrates the release of their “Let Me Be A Light” EP at the Bootleg. [Check out “Secret.”] Simone White and the Brian Walsh Set Trio join in on the fun. ‣ This week’s Grand Ole Echo lineup features the Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, Ronnie Fauss, RT N’ the 44’s and Andrew […]
As they say, you should watch this space for further developments. There’s The Granddaddy of All Surprise Shows in the works and we’re trying to get details: ‣ Brit Week, which kicked off Friday night at the Echo, continues tonight at the First Unitarian Church (the show originally was scheduled for the Echoplex) with New […]
