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, […]
Happy Saturday: â–º It’s Day 2 of Stagecoach, with Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Gregg Allman, ZZ Top and more at the Empire Polo Field in Indio. [Set times at the end of this post.] â–º The Kaiser Chiefs rock the Wiltern behind their latest album “Education, Education, Education & War,” with We Are Scientists opening. […]
Ahead of their just-announced date at HARD Summer, the Chemical Brothers — Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons — are returning with their first album in five years. “Born in the Echoes” will be out July 17, and it features guest turns from Q-Tip, Beck, St. Vincent, Cate Le Bon and Ali Love (a video is […]
[File under Things I Slept on During March Madness:] Oxnard native Nic Hessler had a good thing going a few years back, making music under the name Catwalk while he was still in his teens and prepping an album for the Captured Tracks label. In late 2012, he was sidelined with the autoimmune disorder Guillain–BarreÌ […]
All kinds of good things await when the Buzz Bands LA Show kicks off at 11 a.m. on The Independent FM. I’ll play songs from four artists finishing up their residencies on Monday night (Odessa, Dorothy, Winter and Barrows); new songs from Nicky Blitz, LA Font, Alexa Melo, Dutch Party, Minutes ’til Midnight, Albert, Children, […]
So much good tonight I can hardly stand it: â–º The Stagecoach festival kicks off a three-day run in Indio, with Tim McGraw, Merle Haggard, Kacey Musgraves, Sturgill Simpson, the Lone Bellow and more. [Set times at the end of this post.] â–º On his way to play Stagecoach on Saturday, Rock and Roll Hall […]
Ty Segall has rocked big stages in front of raging, moshing kids. His show Tuesday night at the Satellite was about none of that — it was the first in a short series of acoustic shows the 27-year-old singer-guitarist is doing to showcase his mellow-fellow side. It was indeed a tame evening that shone a spotlight […]
None other than British luminary Don Letts directs the video for U.K. rabble-rousers Palma Violets’ new song “English Tongue,” which stars Paul Kaye (“Game of Thrones”) and answers the age-old question “What if you went to church and a mosh pit broke out?” The song is from the band’s second album “Danger in the Club” […]
