What’s up for your Tuesday: ‣ Irish singer-songwriter Hozier returns to L.A. for a sold-out show at the Troubadour. ‣ Band of Skulls rock the Observatory behind their new album “Himalayan,” with Deap Vally opening. ‣ Trapdoor Social celebrates today’s release of its new “Science of Love” EP with a show at the Viper Room […]
Why it took so long for this show to sell out, the spirits only know. But to packed El Rey Theatre on Saturday night, the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger and Fever the Ghost delivered psychedelic experiences both whimsical and moving. They left the crowd – with its fair share of men with women’s […]
There’s a band called Desperate Journalist, and if they adopted that name to get the attention of the likes of me … Well done, kids. Maybe my band Disconsolate Artrocker can open for you? Certainly my last five years of underemployment would have enjoyed a better soundtrack had songs like “Happening” dominated the public domain […]
KCRW’s stamp will be all over the Southern California live music again scene this summer. The fifth annual KCRW Summer Nights series – part of which was announced this morning – is highlighted by the return of live music to the Annenberg Space for Photography, “Made in L.A.” club nights at the Hammer Museum; and […]
California-rock mystic Jonathan Wilson brought his band to the year’s first edition of Saturdays Off the 405 at the Getty Center over the weekend, and the expansive music on the singer-songwriter’s 2013 album “Fanfare” could hardly have been a better fit for the postcard-perfect day in the Santa Monica Mountains. The free series continues June […]
Happy Monday, and it is indeed: ‣ Coldplay’s new album “Ghost Stories,” the band’s sixth, comes out today, and the band visits UCLA’s Royce Hall to celebrate, supported by London Grammar. ‣ Lykke Li does a sold-out show at the Theatre at Ace Hotel ‣ James Blunt wraps up a U.S. tour behind his new […]
Incoming: Lykke Li, Coldplay, James Blunt, Phil Beaudreau, Their/They’re/There, Banta, Eliza Rickman, Hozier, King Washington, DevilDriver, Band of Skulls, Nickel Creek, Melpo Mene, Dreamland, Wake Owl, Dead Sara, Gabrielle Aplin, Our Last Summer, Us the Duo, Jenny Lewis, Mr. Elevator & the Brain Hotel, Black Flag, Ledisi and the Robert Glasper Experiment, Gesaffelstein, Ty Dolla […]
Join me at 9 tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) for this week’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show. I’ll have new music from the Cold War Kids/We Barbarians side project French Style Furs, along with tunes from Madi Diaz, Howls, Trapdoor Social, Babes, the Mercy Beat and White Fence. Oh, and since Failure released […]
To Silver Lake regulars of last decade, there was no coulda-woulda-shoulda rock ’n’ roll story more heartbreaking than the Movies. Blessed with a distinctive post-punk/New Wave sound, deliciously subversive songs and an incendiary live show, the Movies were also cursed with band drama, much of it revolving around enigmatic, volatile frontman Timothy James. They did […]
The Church on York’s bid to become a legit music venue took a hit on Friday when the City of Los Angeles denied the fledgling venue its requests for permits to stage live shows. The Los Angeles Times’ Todd Martens has all the details here, including owner/promoter Graeme Flegenheimer’s vow to fight on. Tonight’s show featuring […]
