Chinatown Summer Nights went off in a big way on Saturday night, with Moving Units’ ferocious dance-punk stoking a rabid crowd into dancing, moshing and crowd-surfing as the midnight hour approached. The set was interrupted briefly when one miscreant disobeyed security, but in the end music prevailed, and there was plenty on this final installment […]
By Molly Bergen Bright orange clouds reflected the glamor of Hollywood and the hidden sheen of a full moon down upon the cemetery stones. Friday night was one of the brightest of the summer, giving the Hollywood Forever Cemetery an eerie glow, bathing picnickers on the Fairbanks Lawn in half-twilight. The warm air was perfumed […]
The sun barely shone on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park during Saturday’s second day of Outside Lands, but there was no gloom in the festival’s big performances. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis packed the Twin Peaks stage, playing opposite main-stage headliners Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, with Macklemore [top photo] sending a few good-natured jibes that […]
Kind of a legendary Sunday, right? ‣ Paul McCartney plays Dodger Stadium for the first time he appeared there with the Beatles in 1966. (That Beatles’ set, one of the Fab Four’s last concerts, was 30 minutes long on Aug. 28, 1966; McCarntey has promised tonight’s would be, ahem, longer.) ‣ Amazing lineup at the […]
In a move that surprises no one, the Echo Park indie-rock band called NO has changed its name to Black English. “It just got to be too confusing,” frontman Bradley Hanan Carter [above] said last week of the disconnect between his band and a young pop-rock quartet also named NO (who will be opening for […]
“We drove three hours to see you!” a fan shouted at Gardens & Villa on Friday night, eliciting a smile from frontman Chris Lynch. “I walked!” somebody else shouted. The Santa Barbara-bred quintet proved worth the journey, no matter how long, in their 75-minute set at the Figat7th Downtown Festival. The free, all-ages night of […]
Outside Lands converged on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this weekend, and Friday’s first day was highlighted by performances from Kanye West and Arctic Monkeys. L.A. entries Warpaint and Grouplove each drew huge crowds, and Jack Antonoff’s new band Bleachers gave everybody a sugar rush. Buzz Bands LA’s Carl Pocket made the rounds on Day […]
‣ It’s another installment for Chinatown Summer Nights at the Old Chinatown Central Plaza. Moving Units, the Peach Kings, the New Electric Sound, the Cold & Lovely, Magic Bronson and the Rebel Light all perform on the Buzz Bands LA-curated live music stage. KCRW DJSÂ Anthony Valadez and Raul Campos will be spinning at the dance […]
If drama were a fluid, Night Terrors of 1927’s new song “Always Take You Back” would be drenched. The band’s slow-building, shimmering anthem is the first new song to emerge since last November’s “Guilty Pleas” EP. Surfacing early last year as the creative tête-à -tête between Jarrod Gorbel (the Honorary Title) and Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley, […]
The last time we heard what Amoureux –  the duo of drummer Nicole Turley and bassist Holiday J – could do to stand apart from the mass of recent musical lemmings we were impressed. Now that they’ve released the EP bearing the same name as the previous single “Never Young As Tonight,” fans craving for something more off-kilter […]
