The folks at the Skirball Cultural Center weren’t kidding Friday night when they subtitled the latest in their “Into the Night” music series “The Wild Side.” Besides sets from three of L.A.’s indie-rock finest – Jenny O., In the Valley Below and Body Parts – fans at the Skirball’s end-of-the-summer bash got a meet-and-greet with […]
Your show picks for a steamy Wednesday: ‣ Superchunk headlines the El Rey Theatre behind their latest album “I Hate Music.” Colleen Green opens. Jason Narducy fills in for the ailing Laura Ballance on bass for the long-running Chapel Hill, N.C., rockers. ‣ Perfect for your NIN hangover – industrial duo Youth Code rocks the […]
As previously announced, Nika Roza Danilova – aka Zola Jesus – is preparing the release for her forthcoming album “Versions,” an album of 10 Zola Jesus originals reinterpreted by orchestral arrangements by JG Thirlwell (Foetus). And before any of her fans could pout because of the lack of more original songs, Danilova made sure to include […]
A lover’s triangle ends badly in the video for the new Pixies song “Indie Cindy,” which was directed by Jesse Lamar High and Nik Harper, aka LAMAR+NIK, and stars Emily Matthews, Mark Johns and Miles Kolliopoulos. Oh, wait … new Pixies song, you say? Indeed, the long-running indie rockers, who this summer premiered a new […]
Tuesday’s menu: ‣ Nine Inch Nails play a sold-out Troubadour for only raffle-winners in support of their latest album “Hesitation Mark.” That’s their David Lynch-directed video for “Came Back Haunted” above. (Please heed its warning at the beginning.) ‣ Blonde Redhead headlines the El Rey Theatre with the Mast as support. ‣ Black Sabbath take […]
Yacht rock fans, there’s a new guy in town and his name is Rai Thistlethwayte – aka Sun Rai. Thistlethwayte may already be known to some for his success as the frontman and songwriter for Sydney, Australia-based pop rock band Thirsty Merc (they’ve been nominated for numerous ARIA Awards), but the easy-going ’70s AM era sound of […]
Singer-songwriter Lissie Maurus, whom fans have come to embrace as Lissie, hails from the mythological home of the Blues Brothers, Rock Island, Ill. – which makes her probably the only resident of Ojai who can name all the Quad Cities.* Lissie’s 2010 debut “Catching a Tiger” was notable for what it wasn’t – overdone. Her […]
We’ve already noted how close to Mazzy Star this song veers, but on a toasty, stickier-than-that-milkshake-I-spilled-last-week Labor Day, sharing the video for Boardwalk’s “I’m to Blame” seems appropriate. The L.A.-based duo of Mike Edge and Amber Quintero have an album coming in October on Stones Throw Records (of all places), and if there’s more slo-mo […]
Happy Labor Day:Â ‣ There are BBQs and then there are shindigs like the Summer Send-Off at the Bootleg Theater featuring performance by the Decoders, Mystery Skulls, Harriet, Moses Sumney, Francisco the Man, Froth, the Cerny Brothers, Grizfolk, Robert Raimon Roy, Kera & the Lesbians, Bad Suns, Moonchild, Trevor Menear, Yonas Michael, Channel One, Douglas […]
Incoming: NIN, The Bangles, Berlin, Bootleg’s Summer Send-Off, Sun Rai, Katie Costello, Blonde Redhead, Black Sabbath, Fun., Tegan & Sara, Meg Myers, Carly Ritter, Superchunk, Youth Code, Backstreet Boys, Gary Numan, John Hiatt, Gardens & Villa, Eve, Anticon 15-Year Anniversary, Dwight Yoakam, Gold Fields, Los Lobos, Desert Stars Festival, Javier Dunn, ZZ Ward, Vintage Trouble, […]