Incoming: My Morning Jacket, Dave Matthews Band, Fiona Apple, the Walkmen, Blondie, Silversun Pickups, the Vaccines, Robert Francis, Adam Ant, the Hives, Peter Murphy, Rascal Flatts, Lobsterfest, Joe Walsh, Pretty Lights, Poolside, Austra, Avicii, Brian Setzer Orchestra Above: My Morning Jacket hits the Wiltern for three nights starting Tuesday. That’s the video for the title […]
For your Sunday: ‣ Dance party at the Hollywood Bowl, with Hot Chip, Passion Pit and Omar Souleyman. That’s Passion Pit’s video for “Talk a Walk,” above. ‣ A night of larger-than-life R&B at Gibson Amphitheatre, where Mary J. Blige co-headlines with D’Angelo, on his first tour in a decade. ‣ It’s the eclectic orchestrations […]
Jens Lekman has never been one to hide his emotions, and that may be one of the most compelling things about him as a performer. His combination of wry humor and stark gloom gives the Swedish indie-popper’s confessionals a sense of melodrama and melancholy few contemporaries approach. Lekman’s previous single “Erica America” prompted one to […]
The twitch is back. Thom Yorke on Thursday night unveiled a new song from his project Atoms for Peace, the band assembled when the Radiohead main man toured behind his solo album “The Eraser.” That all-star cast includes Nigel Godrich (production/programming), Joey Waronker (drums), Mauro Refosco (percussion) and Flea (bass). Explains Yorke in the press […]
Ah, the thrills of spur-of-the-moment romance. In the Features‘ video for “Another One” – a track off their excellent album “Wilderness” – a young couple gets a room, only to find they maybe should have gotten a better room. The rodents who have already staked their claim to the motel sure can play indie-rock. But […]
Here’s your big Thursday: ‣ Best Coast and NO close out the Twilight Summer Series with a free show at the Santa Monica Pier. ‣ Legendary sound collagists Negativland hold forth at the Echoplex – the Bay Area provocateurs have a show titled “My Favorite Things” opening Friday at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in […]
Although lead guitarist Wymond Miles seems to be doing well with his solo material, San Francisco’s the Fresh & Onlys are still going strong now that their latest album “Long Slow Dance” is out on Mexican Summer. To celebrate the new record, the garage-rock quintet has not only just taken off on a North American […]
Great Wednesday night, especially for local shows: ‣ Indie-blues trio Armada [that’s their video for “Callanwolde,” above] celebrates the release of its album “Paper Ghosts” with a show at the Hotel Cafe on a night that also features performances by Emma Louise, Kita Klane and David & Devine. Check out another track from Armada, “Pick […]
[We’re late with our post, due to the holiday weekend and your humble editor’s FYF Fest hangover …] Incoming: Best Coast, Jillinda Palmer, the Vibrators, Negativland, B.B. King, the Heavy, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Big Black Delta, Dead Meadow, Linkin Park, Mary J. Blige, Hot Chip, Dave Matthews Band, the Fresh & Onlys Above: The […]
When does an identity crisis become an existential crisis? Somewhere in the two thrashing minutes of the Henry Clay People’s “The Fakers,” that’s where. “Our mothers and fathers gave us faces no one remembers,” Joey Siara rages in the song, from the L.A. punk-rock quartet’s equally raging new album “Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our […]
