Morrissey, Bloc Party, Frank Ocean and the Jesus and Mary Chain will play this year’s FYF Fest on Aug. 22-23 at the Sports Arena & Exposition Park in downtown Los Angeles. Tickets for the 12th annual festival — annually billed as “the best weekend of summer” — will be on sale this Friday. General admission […]
The lineup for this year’s FYF Fest — annually billed as “the best weekend of summer” — will be revealed this morning when festival founder Sean Carlson appears on KCRW at 10 a.m. to spill the beans. Info regarding this year’s festival, which is expected to return to its Exposition Park location Aug. 22 and […]
Your Wednesday show options: ► Other Lives [see “Reconfiguration”] do the first of two L.A. shows behind their new album “Rituals,” this one at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ► U.K. pop songer Mika plays the Belasco Theatre, with Astronautica supporting. Above, the video for his new single “TAlk About You.” ► Great […]
I have no idea what could be more fun, the debut EP from the all-star quartet Broken Bats or the party that one imagines got the ball rolling. Formed in Nashville, Broken Bats merge the talents of Matt Friction (Pink Spiders), Denver Dalley (Desaparecidos, Har Mar Superstar and his own project Statistics), Tony Smith (Sleeper […]
Transplanted Austinites Erik Flores and Amelia Rose Logan debuted their collaboration Fairbanks — now Fairbanks & the Lonesome Light — a couple of years ago, weaving the elements of traditional Americana into life-affirming songs that, as the chorus to their new single goes, make you “feel lucky to be here at all.” The Echo Park couple […]
Happy 5/5, here are some fun shows: ► Irish rockers Kodaline headline the Wiltern behind their new album “Coming Up for Air,” which came out in April. Above, their video for “The One.” ► Los Lobos, joined by Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin and the Guilty Ones, do a benefit show for public television station […]
Like a lot of would-be “songs of the summer,” Golden Coast’s synth-spiked ditties have the staying power of a Sno-Cone. (Note to self: Try to recall 2014’s “songs of the summer.”) But damned if they aren’t catchy — full of mood-elevating hooks and falsetto that are completely of the moment, as long your moment lasts 3 […]
Splash House has announced its pool party-appropriate lineup of electronic musicians and DJs for its poolside parties this summer in Palm Springs. Cashmere Cat, Thomas Jack, Bakermat and RAC are among the attractions for the June 13-14 event, while Tokimonsta, Klingande, Star Slinger and Trippy Turtle will plug in the weekend of Aug. 8-9. The […]
L.A.-based quartet Monarch debuted in January with the bursting-with-bombast single “Stay.” The second volley from the band — singer Brennan Strawn, guitarist Taylor Johnson, keyboardist Brian Willett and drummer Joel Plotnik — is “Snow White,” a down-tempo meditation articulating a heart full of regrets. It’s produced by Brent Kutzle (the OneRepublic bassist) and appears on the foursome’s […]
Roots-rockers Infantree are making their new album … in the most literal sense. The Valley-bred quartet, now independent after releasing a couple of full-lengths on Neil Young’s Vapor Records, recorded their new album “Return to Zero” themselves. And now the band — Alex Vojdani, Donald Fisher, Matt Kronish and Jordan Avesar — are hand-cutting their own […]