Electronic/rap music blowout HARD Summer moves to its third location in three years Aug. 1-2 when the festival convenes at the Fairplex in Pomona with a lineup featuring the Chemical Brothers (somehow listed after The Weeknd), Jack Ãœ (returning from 2014), Ratatat, Dillon Francis, Schoolboy Q, Porter Robinson, Odesza, the Glitch Mob, Die Antwoord, Chromeo, […]
Speedy Ortiz’s eagerly anticipated sophomore album “Foil Deer” came out this week, and it does not disappoint. The Massachusetts indie-rockers — Sadie Dupuis, Darl Ferm, Mike Falcone and new addition Devin McKnight — unleash a primal, fuzzed-out tour de force with some sharp observations on cultural matters, as well as some strong affirmations (“I’m not bossy / […]
Massachusetts-born Alexa Melo is only 20, but the singer-guitarist sounds like she’s been through the wars. And she has, in a manner. Signed to a major label as a precocious teen, Melo was passed from producer to producer to producer before finding a sonic ally in Christian James Hand (who produced the Mowgli’s). Now “emancipated” […]
What on earth is going on this Earth Day? Here’s what: â–º With their first album in 18 years, “Sol Invictus,” due May 17, Faith No More [pictured] kicks off the first of three nights at the Wiltern. â–º Nosaj Thing — victimized by thieves last week in Houston (he lost gear, laptops and “”years worth […]
Sing-rapper Kesha, along with Fifth Harmony and Tamar Braxton, will be the main-stage attractions at June’s LA Pride Festival in West Hollywood. Braxton will headline on Friday, June 12, with Kesha and Fifth Harmony performing June 13 and 14, respectively, at West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd. The only other musical talent announced […]
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 […]
