On their debut album “Great River,” Long Beach five-piece Children become the latest band to follow the unsteady currents that lead back to the ’60s psychedelic rock movement. The album, recorded last fall in Mississippi, follows the “Feel Time” EP in 2014 and finds the quintet — Tom Gil, Jeff Steiskal, Graham Walker, Trevor Wallace […]
Set times have been announced for Desert Daze, the one-day festival in the Coachella Valley that brings Failure, Warpaint, RJD2, the Budos Band, Dan Deacon, Minus the Bear and more to the Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca. Tickets start at $55. See our lineup announcement for more background.
Your Tuesday show lineup: â–º Australian sextet the Cat Empire visits the El Rey Theatre; get there early for Canada’s Current Swell. â–º Ty Segall does a solo acoustic show at the Satellite, where he’s joined by Cory Hanson and Emmett Kelly. â–º The Fontaines [pictured] continue their residency at Harvard & Stone, playing along […]
“My life is cold, you put the flame on it,” belted soul man Charles Bradley during a passionate performance at the Roxy Theatre on Saturday night. Considering his documented lifelong struggles with abandonment, homelessness and loss, those were poignant words from the 66-year-old Bradley, a former James Brown impersonator who eventually began gaining recognition for […]
Since the Happy Hollows released their sophomore album “Amethyst” in 2013, the L.A. trio has quietly been working on a follow-up. The first song “Astrid” continues the trio’s path of interlacing guitars and synths in their agit-pop, with frontwoman Sarah Negahdari’s agile vocals slip-sliding all over the scale. The album found the trio — Negahdari, Charlie […]
Indie-rock quartet Travelers have had an album nearly completed for two years, but only now has the L.A. outfit unveiled the first two songs. The band features the collaborative talents of guitarist Eric Cannata and drummer François Comtois from Young the Giant, along with guitarist Aidin Sadeghi and bassist Bret Leinen, all of whom trade […]
LA Font continue to be one of the finest indie-rock bands on the local landscape — prolific, melodic, intelligent (maybe too smart for their own good, but that’s just a longtime follower’s hare-brained theory) and, well, lovingly caustic. Their first substantial release since the 2013 full-length “Diving Man” comes out this week, and it’s an […]
Top of the 4/20 to you: â–º Folk-pop trio the Good Mad — that’s their video for “Adelaide,” above — play the Hotel Café behind their “Face Your Feels” EP. Also joining in the fun at the Hotel Café tonight: Drug Cabin Bones Muhroni, Irene Dias and Town in the City. â–º April’s free Monday residencies […]
Incoming: Stagecoach, KXLU Fest II, Odessa, Dorothy, Winter, Barrows, Leland, the Cat Empire, Reggie Watts, Ty Segall, the Fontaines, Willis Earl Beal, Lalah Hathaway, Thomas Nicholas Band, ShyBoy, Nosaj Thing, Faith No More, the Vim Dicta, Prawn, Brothers Osborne, Drive-By Truckers, Rumer, Emily West, Jared & the Mill, Willoughby, LA Font, Tigers Jaw, Matt Pond […]
Twin Shadow drummer Andy Bauer remains hospitalized in serious condition, and Twin Shadow himself — George Lewis Jr. — is facing reconstructive hand surgery after a tour bus accident on I-70 near Denver on Friday morning. New reports said 12 people were injured on the fog-covered highway in the four-vehicle accident, which also involved a […]
