Advance tickets for next year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific time. There is, of course, no lineup to tout yet, but promoters Goldenvoice announced that the dates for the two-weekend festival next year will be April 11-13 and April 18-20. General admission passes will be […]
Your Monday evening fare: ‣ One more time: The Rolling Stones’ “50 and Counting Tour” visits Staples Center. ‣ Brooklyn synth-pop Holy Ghost! teams up with L.A.’s Classixx for a sold-out show at the Troubadour. That’s Holy Ghost!’s new video for “Dumb Disco Ideas,” above. ‣ The Little Ones headline It’s a School Night at […]
Incoming: The Rolling Stones, Holy Ghost!, Laura Marling, Dillinger Escape Plan, Atlas Genius, the Black Angels, the Presets, the Postelles, Kate Nash, Daughter, Youngblood Hawke, Carla Morrison, Sweet & Tender Hooligans, Shout Out Louds, Breathe Carolina, Turbonegro, Cold War Kids, Mikal Cronin, Opeth, Amanda Jo Williams, Sir Sly, Fleetwood Mac, War, Imperial Teen, Juanes, Black […]
By Gabriel Jones Devendra Banhart’s show at the Fonda Theater on Thursday night suggested an artist in transition; even in his movements on stage – he’s normally largely stoic and motionless in concert – he looked as if he were trying to shake free of his old skin, jerking one leg spastically back and forth […]
In the mood for some fresh-out-of-the-box music? Join me at 7 o’clock on what promises to be a gorgeous Sunday evening for this week’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show, featuring an hour of SoCal tunes, including new music from Tijuana Panthers, Banks, the Coals, Blue-Eyed Son, Summer Twins and Paper Pilots. We’ll hear from Torches, Western […]
Sunday’s fun: ‣ Local surf-inspired pop outfit Blue-Eyed Son [that’s the main man, Andrew Heilprin, above] celebrate the release of their new EP “Shadows on the Son,” their first release since 2004’s “West of Lincoln,” at the Hotel Café on a night that Freedy Johnston headlines headlines. ‣ Brooklyn synth-pop duo Holy Ghost! hits southern […]
A superb Saturday ahead: ‣ The Rolling Stones are back for another night of their “50 and Counting Tour” at the Honda Center. ‣ The annual KROQ Weenie Roast goes off at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, featuring the Black Keys, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Vampire Weekend, Of Monsters and Men, Jimmy Eat World, Silversun Pickups, […]
PAPA’s hometown blowout on Thursday night at the Troubadour came off as a little … well, loose – especially if you’d seen them this spring at South by Southwest, where they hit every note as if they were playing for lunch money. The perils of performing to a sold-out crowd of friends and family? Perhaps. […]
Lots of things have happened for the Parson Red Heads in the last few years. They made the trek from Los Angeles to their native Oregon, settling in Portland,; they released the lovely album “Yearling;” and the band’s married couple Evan and Brette Marie Way had a baby boy. Even with a baby in tow, […]
As Miss Lauryn Hill prepares herself for a brief stint behind bars, Henry Pope takes us back to brighter days as he recreates a bit of the magic and wonder that was “The Score.” With an infectious beat (borrowed from Cali Swag District), the Venice Beach-based producer infuses a bit of danceability into the defiant R&B […]
