What’s happening in SoCal this lovely Friday:Â ‣ Coachella Day 1 with the Stone Roses, Blur, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse and more. Set times here. ‣ Father Tiger celebrates the release of their EP “Vernal Equinox” tonight at the Virgil. That’s their video for “Head Hung Low” above. ‣ And over at Hotel Café, […]
Los Angeles has a typically strong presence at this year’s Coachella, so we thought it’d be nice to have a soundtrack of SoCal-based artists for the desert. Enjoy, and see you there. After the jump, the titles:
Coachella has added another tent, the Yuma, and moved some things around for 2013. Here’s this weekend’s map.
Set times for 2013’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival have been announced, and if you’re like us at BBLA HQ, you’re already mapping out a game plan for whom you want to see. The thing is, every year always presents some conflicts leaving you no choice but to choose one band over another. […]
If you’re sitting this Coachella out, well … you don’t really have to sit this Coachella out. At least, not all of it. The festival’s YouTube Channel will stream more than 60 artists playing Indio, including headliners Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers along with the likes of Local Natives [pictured at the Satellite in […]
Dear Coachella: This post could be about 38 bands long, but I’m just afraid of getting RSI. I know it’s become fashionable to take potshots at your lineup – I have no idea what warped sense of entitlement that comes from. You have a nice product, and the excellence in the 2013 lineup runs deep. […]
Cold War Kids spread their wings on “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts;” it’s worth getting deep into the L.A. indie-rockers’ fourth album for the electro-based track “Loner Phase,” for instance. The first single “Miracle Mile,” though, is a synthesis of everything Nathan Willett, Dann Gallucci, Matt Maust and Matt Aveiro do well – Willett’s pleading vocals conjuring […]
T’was the Thursday before Coachella and all through the city … ‣ U.K. quartet Savages quickened our pulse at SXSW; now the band has an album titled “Silence Yourself” coming May 7 on Matador records, and the quartet brings its primal post-punk to the Echo tonight. No Bra opens. ‣ Passion Pit and Tanlines [the […]
For Justin Warfield, remixing the new Depeche Mode single “Heaven” was truly a labor of love. “I love that band so much, no matter how much I hear the records they’ve almost become standards to me, and I never get sick of them,” says Warfield, the voice of post-punk revivalists She Want Revenge. “No matter […]
Gifted remixers who’ve aroused expectations on the strength of collaborations with Mayer Hawthorne, Major Lazer, Phoenix and Passion Pit, among others, Los Angeles duo Classixx aim to further impress with their first collection of original material “Hanging Gardens” (due May 14 on Innovative Leisure). Generously making their remixed brilliance available for DJs looking to infuse […]