Tonight in L.A.: Stones Fest LA, MusiCares benefit with Stone Temple Pilots, United Ghosts, Suuns, John Talabot, Tame Impala, Imagine Dragons, Junip, Fear, Caught a Ghost, Toy Bombs, We Are Scientists
Thursday’s shows, with two very big and very worthy charity events happening on the same night (somebody needs to coordinate these things, right?): ‣ Stones Fest LA salutes the music of that little band that recently played the Echoplex. The benefit for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, tonight at the Fonda Theatre, will feature the […]
There’s a new rock quartet in town whose sophisticated pop may include your next breezy summer melody. You can go ahead and thank Northern American for songs like the shimmering “Record Forever” to go with your ice-cold beer beside the pool and the bluesy “Don’t Be a Star” to go down with that warm whiskey […]
Songwriter Robert Fleming’s now-out-of-the-bedroom project Victory made its full-length debut in April with “Victory Is Music,” a declarative that rings true over the album’s 10 tracks of groove-laden, electro-tinged blues. All kinds of influences come to mind – Spoon, Beck, the Dandy Warhols – but what Victory has done is mind its songs, keeping them […]
Since they appeared on the landscape in 2011, L.A. quintet Y LUV have embraced a so-romantic-it’s-almost-squishy take on synth-rock, with diminutive frontman Freddy Janney’s boyish, pleading vocals leading the way over saccharine melodies and danceable rhythms. Their new EP “Take the Ride” (released this week) aims high – lead single “All I Wanna Do” seems […]
Bloody Death Skull makes music that doesn’t quite match up with their very metal-sounding name, but in no way does that imply Daiana Feuer, Gerard Olson, Beth Breen, Donna Suppipat (also of Tommy Santee Klaws) and Andres Renteria are shy with the subject matters on their latest EP “Oh My Gosh.” From “Girls Like You” […]
Your slat for Wednesday: ‣ Las Vegas radio rockers Imagine Dragons, whose debut album “Night Visions” has gone platinum, does the first of two nights at the Palladium, supported by L.A.’s Nico Vega. That’s Isaac Halasima’s video for “Demons,” above, which is dedicated to the memory of band friend and 17-yera-old cancer victim Tyler Robinson. […]
On the final day, the rains came. The Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre squished to a soggy finish on Monday, with the skies spitting drizzle and the occasional downpour until early evening. There were complications – Gold Fields and Azelia Banks both didn’t make it to the festival, causing set times to be […]
There’s a certain anxiety in composer Julia Holter’s electronic experimentations – the feeling that, at any turn, a pop song could break out. And, probably, ruin the vibe. Holter, the Cal Arts product who came on the radar two years ago with the Euripides-inspired “Tragedy” and last year followed it with the mystical, devastating (in […]
“Semi-Sweet” … Well, that’s about right. “Semi-Tart” would be acceptable too. And, perhaps, “Semi-Tough,” although Tijuana Panthers’ new album doesn’t quite pack the punch that the Long Beach trio’s off-the-chain live shows have wielded. The new album, out today via Innovative Leisure Records, mixes beach bunny-inspired surf pop with tallboy-propelled garage rock. It seems forever […]
“What if Ty Segall were to come out tonight?” asked a fan in the sold-out Echo on Friday night. This was seconds before someone rammed into his body and pulled him into the mosh pit. His possible scenario didn’t have to come into fruition because the bombastic bill of Mikal Cronin, Pangea and Gap Dream […]
