Your very busy Thursday: ‣ The fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods Show brings Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Anthrax, Stone Sour, the Dillinger Escape Plan and Halestorm to Club Nokia for a sold-out night of hard rock. ‣ The Killers (that’s their video for “Miss Atomic Bomb,” above) join up with the Felice Brothers for […]
Ready for a cool dip in the pool? The Picture and the Frame has you covered in their new video for the single “Okay” [which we fell for back in December]. On their new album “Reverb and Gin” (why is it we love that title?), the L.A. trio of singer-bassist Rose Shawhan, guitarist Rickett Baker […]
Tanlines, YACHT, We Are Scientists, Robert DeLong, Taken by Trees and Superhumanoids are among the attractions at Make Music Pasadena, a free day of live music throughout Pasadena on Saturday, June 1. One headliner is yet to be announced (look for that in late May), but the lineup also boasts Las Cafeteras, Hunter Hunted, the […]
Happy 1st of May … ‣ Paramore visits the Wiltern behind its wildly popular new self-titled album. Fans are “Still Into You,” as the video suggests. ‣ The Killers do the first of two SoCal dates, this one at Honda Center. ‣ U.K. provocateurs (and masked men) Clinic, doing their first U.S. tour since 2010, […]
What would you do for love? Millions of singers ponder this question through their lyrics, but Travis‘ frontman, Fran Healy, shows what he’ll go through for simple love in this clip for their new single “Where You Stand.” As the band performs the title-track of their new album, Â Healy becomes a human art project just […]
Totally tubular Tuesday things: ‣ Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 roll through town and stop at the Troubadour in support of Hitchock’s latest album “Love From London.” Peter Buck supports. ‣ New York’s favorite tapping guitarist Marnie Stern headlines the Satellite in support of her latest album “The Chronicles of Marnia.” [That’s her video […]
There a lot of cooks in Holy Folk’s kitchen – the collaboration features songwriters Keith Waggoner, Josh Caldwell, Ryan George and Jonathan Hylander (in no particular order, Les Blanks, the Voyeurs, Amateurs and Honey Loving Cells), who between them have probably done enough L.A. club gigs got earn some sort of accreditation. Begun as the side […]
Melissa Ann Sweat makes small things seem like big things. As Lady Lazarus, the poet-artist-musician deals in minimalist compositions that seem like folk tunes afloat in a slow-moving current – music that, like the new video for “Gleam,” seems to suggest a certain detachment from a world that’s moving too fast. It’s a relatable sentiment, […]
Rainbow Jackson’s “Rippin’ Off the Rails” EP, released last year, announced the L.A. quartet as happy, hair-flyin’ purveyors of hooks – not quite consciously messy enough for the local surf-garage-punk scene but too scuzzy to fit in with L.A.’s next-wave hard rockers. Named in homage to Bo Jackson (“the greatest American athlete to ever play […]
Some may call it vibrato in Laura Stevenson‘s vocals, but that delicate quiver in the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter’s voice moves one so deeply it’s beyond a technical music term. With every tremble, she picks at her songs’ subject matters until every human flaw is exposed – and this is just one factor that makes her latest […]
