Attendance at last week’s ninth Stagecoach Country Music Festival topped 200,000, according to several reports, and fans got a lot of variety for their bucks. Mainstream stars such as Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw [top photo] and Blake Shelton were joined by veterans such as Merle Haggard, Gregg Allman, ZZ Top, Mickey Gilley, Eric Burdon & […]
Your Thursday shows: ► Sleater-Kinney headlines the Hollywood Palladium behind their new album “No Cities to Love.” It’s the first of the trio’s two-night stand there, and Body/Head and Ian Rubbish open. Above, “A New Wave” hit’s “Bob’s Burgers.” ► French chanteuse Keren Ann will unveil some new material as well as perform selections from […]
Cayucas, the breezy musical vehicle of twins Zach and Ben Yudin, return June 23 with “Dancing at the Blue Lagoon,” their sophomore album for Secretly Canadian. The brothers made the album, the follow-up to 2013’s “Bigfoot,” at the celebrated Bear Creek studio in Washington State with producer Ryan Hadlock (the Lumineers), yet the new single […]
Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco — aka De Lux, aka Those Nice Lads From Down the Block in Echo Park Who Played Every Show You Attended in 2014 — are stretching their wings. It’s only been a year since the dance-punk revivalists released their debut album “Voyage,” and this week they announced their sophomore effort […]
The wide, wide (and we mean wide) world of Wednesday: ► Swedish folk singer José González visits the Regent Theater behind “Vestiges & Claws,” his first album in seven years. Olof Arnalds opens. ► Metal giants Mastodon bring “The Missing Link Your,” a joint jaunt with Clutch, to the Palladium. ► Electro pioneers the Orb, […]
L.A. native Nicky Blitz, born Nick Scapa, cut his teeth in Miami, where he attended the University of Miami and was a cog in some songwriting machines, penning tunes for films, TV shows, ad agencies and other artists. [See this interesting narrative.] His polyglot tastes (and talents) are on display on the new, self-released “Hawk” […]
The new single from The Moth & the Flame is a roof-rattler the L.A. quartet have been playing in concerts for several months now, “Young & Unafraid.” The band — Utah ex-pats Brandon Robbins (guitars and vocals), Mark Garbett (keyboards and vocals) and Andrew Tolman drums) along with L.A. cohort Michael Goldman on bass — […]
Jutty Ranx continues to garner attention in global pop circles, even if Justin Taylor and his music aren’t household commodities in the U.S., or even his hometown. Of course, the promo for the song “Digital Love” — a collaboration between Finnish pop duo Tom & Hills and the L.A. artist — refers to Jutty Ranx as […]
Dutch Party’s laced-with-cool funk-pop debuted in December with two tracks from the mind and fingers of singer-songwriter Ken Franklin. With Dutch Party now playing around town as a five-piece, the band last week released its debut EP “Astral Nights,” which features those first two songs, “Paper Moon” and “Echo Girl” and four more, including the […]
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. […]