Great lineup of Tuesday shows: ► Matt & Kim headline the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “New Glow.” Get there early for WATERS, who just dropped their sophomore album “What’s Real.” ► Waxahatchee rocks the Roxy behind this month’s release of the full-length “Ivy Tripp” (above the video for “Under a Rock”). Girlpool opens. […]
“I’m not a flag waver,†insisted Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson at the Wiltern on Saturday night as fans held out small Union Jack flags. Last year, England’s quintessential lad-rockers released their fifth studio album “Education, Education, Education & War,†but it’s still their first album “Employment†that packs the biggest live punch. ||| Photos […]
Vanessa Long calls the often-mystical, always-clever songs she makes as Cillie Barnes “gyp-hop” — sung and sung-spoken meditations that have the quality of diary entries. Her downtempo new single “Symmetry,” part of a small collection “The Friendly Witch” that she is releasing this week, feels like she’s letting you in on a secret. “I wrote ‘Symmetry’ […]
There’s nothing like some projectile vomiting to announce your long-awaited third album. That’s a disclaimer for the video above, “New Coke,” which is the first song to emerge from Echo Park’s experimental noise band HEALTH‘s new album, “Death Magic,” their first album since 2009’s “Get Color.” Since then, they recorded the soundtrack to the video […]
Since they debuted over four years ago, L.A. duo the Young Romans have dispensed their bright, nimble indie-pop on a full-length and a couple of EPs, and seen their work used in a host of TV shows and films, including “Drop Dead Diva,” “Pretty Little Liars,” “the Fosters,” “The Lying Game” and “Salmon Fishing In […]
Here’s to a mighty good Monday: â–º Rapper-singer-poet-activist Saul Williams [pictured], whose new (Justin Warfield-produced) album “Martyr Loser King” comes out in July and who recently dropped a collaboration with Emily Kokal of Warpaint, headlines the Roxy Theatre. Sons of an Illustrious Father open. â–º Crush_DLX, the new project from Pop Levi and (whatever she’s […]
Incoming: Desert Daze, Zane Carney, Saul Williams, Odessa, Dorothy, Winter, Barrows, Nothing But Thieves, Matt & Kim, Waxahatchee, Clockwise, From Indian Lakes, Robert Francis, Jose Gonzalez, Milo Greene, Magic Wands, the Orb, the Romany Rye, Mastodon, Distant Cousins, Buck 65, the Soft Moon, Sleater-Kinney, Keren Ann, Aluna George, Big Data, They Might Be Giants, Kinky, […]
On Sundays like this, I just wanna jump up and down and celebrate like a guy who just hit a three-pointer at the buzzer. I just might, too (although there won’t be any video), when I kick off the L.A Buzz Bands Show at 9 tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). It’s something […]
Damien Rice needed only his voice, guitar and storytelling abilities to hold rapt a sold-out, season-opening crowd at the Greek Theatre on Friday night. Rice, who returned in November with the Rick Rubin-produced “My Favourite Faded Fantasy,” his first album in eight years, performed two hours, telling stories about his native Ireland and inspiring many […]
Happy Sunday: â–º Stagecoach winds up with day 3. Today’s lineup features Blake Shelton, the Band Perry, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, the Oakridge Boys, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Outlaws and more at the Empire Polo Field in Indio. [Set times below after the jump.] â–º KXLU Fest II takes off with the Muffs, […]