Here’s your Thursday options: ‣ Queens of the Stone Age headline a sold-out show at the Wiltern in a show that will be webcast by NPR. ‣ L.A. indie-pop octet the Mowgli’s [pictured] whose major-label debut “Waiting for the Dawn” will be released June 18 on Photo Finish/Island Records, headline the Roxy Theatre, where they’ll […]
The spiritual uplift of communal folkies Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros is in full force on “Better Days,” the first single off the 11-member L.A. troupe’s forthcoming third full-length. The album, a self-titled affair, will be out July 23 via Community Music, and this single finds frontman Alex Ebert and crew dispensing their Summer […]
It’s Moz’s birthday … What would he do? ‣ Electro-rockers Youngblood Hawke headlines the Avalon behind their debut album “Wake Up,” which came out in April. ‣ It’s Morrissey’s Unhappy 54th Birthday Celebration with the Sweet & Tender Hooligans at the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Daughter is back for a second sold-out night at the Troubadour, […]
Jubilee Music & Arts Festival – formerly known as Silver Lake Jubilee – reveals its set times for Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8. As previously announced, the Drums, the Black Lips, Free Energy are among its headliners; local acts such as Bleached, Cayucas, Trash Talk, Pangea, the Dead Ships and more were added to the […]
Camera Obscura return with “Desire Lines” to follow up their beloved “My Maudlin Career,” and once again the Glasgow quintet manages to dole indie pop tunes that stomp as much as they sweep. With Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, R.E.M., Sufjan Stevens) on production, ballads such as “Fifth in Line to the Throne” with a depressing subject […]
The last time we checked the Postelles out, they had just released their long-awaited debut, and now they’re back with sophomore release “”¦And It Shook Me.” The former Albert Hammond Jr.-produced record inevitably had them falling somewhere in between the Strokes and the Kooks, and the new record simply expands on those strong pop hooks. […]
The downtown Los Angeles Arts District gained one festival in 2013 when the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival decide to relocate from Silver Lake, but it has lost another, at least temporarily. Bloomfest, the music, arts and street fair that for the past two years has brought live rock to the streets of the Arts […]
It’s a packed Tuesday, y’all… ‣ The Black Angels roar through Los Angeles and headline the Mayan Theatre. Expect to hear some songs off of their new record “Indigo Meadow.” L.A.’s very own garage doo-wopper Hanni El Khatib supports alongside Parisian psych-rock trio Wall of Death. ‣ Australian electro duo the Presets play the Avalon in […]
The annual KROQ Weenie Roast can be a pretty predictable affair – the rock radio giant’s favorite bands playing their rock radio hits – but the early summer affair is often good for a surprise or two. And so it was at the 21st annual Weenie Roast on Saturday at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, when […]
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, all those graduation parties and the down time somewhere on the distant horizon the next three months: the new video for Handshakes’ single “Vacation.” The L.A. outfit’s sprightly power-pop song – think the Weezer or the Rentals with horns – is a giddy excursion that suggests everything you […]