Friday night fever? Here’s where temperatures will rise: ‣ Simian Mobile Disco headlines the Fonda Theatre. The U.K. duo recently released the four-song EP “A Form of Change,” the follow-up to its album “Unpatterns,” released earlier this year. That’s the video for “I Waited for You,” above. ‣ Nas and Ms. Lauryn Hill wind up […]
Thursday, Thursday: ‣ They call Charles Bradley “The Screaming Eagle of Soul,” and the 64-year-old singer lands at UCLA’s Royce Hall tonight for a show that also features Daptone Records labelmates the Menahan Street Band, the New York City-based purveyors of instrumental funk and soul. Above, artists Mike Perry, Jim Stoten and Josh Cochran work […]
As anybody who caught on to Saint Motel in 2009 via their six-song, six-video “ForPlay” release knows, the L.A. quartet (and former film-schoolers) knows how to have fun with visuals. Their breakout song “Benny Goodman,” from their full-length debut “Voyeur,” gets a treatment directed by frontman A/J Jackson, who explains that the “concept for the […]
It’s a wicked good Wednesday: ‣ L.A. quintet Youngblood Hawke heads up a big local lineup at the Roxy Theatre that features Terraplane Sun and Fire In the Hamptons. ‣ No Doubt continues its run at the Gibson Amphitheatre, with Grouplove and Blacq Audio opening. ‣ Lawrence Arabia – the nom de tune of New […]
The video for Local Natives’ “Breakers” is a mess of imagery and vignettes that doesn’t do much to illuminate the very fine song, the first single from the L.A. indie-rockers’ sophomore album “Hummingbird” (due Jan. 29 on Frenchkiss). Probably, it’s just a reminder that the L.A. indie-rockers’ sophomore album “Hummingbird” is due Jan. 29 on […]
‣ Soundgarden has “Been Away Too Long,” if you believe the bands fans and their video. Chris Cornell and crew are back in a big way – “King Animal,” their first album since 1996, came out two weeks ago, and tonight the band headlines the Fonda Theatre. (They return to L.A. for a three-night stint […]
Ethan Gold’s 2011 album “Songs From A Toxic Apartment” is like the gift that keeps on giving. Legend is that the San Francisco-bred songwriter penned the album in a dilapidated Los Angeles abode in between working on music for film and playing in other bands. The fully orchestrated songs adhere to no particular aesthetic – […]
Incoming: No Doubt, Wild Belle, Soundgarden, the Jonas Brothers, Lawrence Arabia, Natalia Lafourcade, Falling in Reverse, Rah Rah, Alex Clare, Emeli Sande, Charles Bradley, Alice Cooper, Youngblood Hawke, Simian Mobile Disco, Capital Cities, Bad Brains, Nas, Taylor Swift, Punch Brothers Above: Noah & the MegaFauna’s dark video for “When You’re Down (The Slackjaw’s Serenade),” off […]
Everything digested from last week? Here’s your Monday madness: ‣ No Doubt is back for a second night in their big run at the Gibson Amphitheatre, this time supported by Grouplove and IO Echo. ‣ Chicago’s Wild Belle [our recent missive] visits the Echo, but just as important for us is the SoCal appearance by […]
