Your Tuesday show menu: ‣ Songwriter and producer Joe Henry [pictured], whose late-2011 album “Reverie” drew wide praise, teams up with irish songstress Lisa Hannigan for a night at the El Rey Theatre. Henry produced Hannigan’s recent release “Passenger.” ‣ North Carolina sextet Delta Rae [see our weekly post for the video] releases its debut […]
Make Music Pasadena accommodated plenty of local favorites on its free Saturday of music – high-flying Grouplove (top photo), for one. There was Ozma as well, although longtime fans pointed out, they played only one song from their album “Pasadena.” No worries, they were a big hit, and photographer Carl Pocket shared his photos of […]
Photographer Scott Dudelson did some stage-hopping at Saturday’s Make Music Pasadena – not an easy proposition, considering the crowds and the distance between stages. Here are some of the artists he caught, starting with Dengue Fever, top photo.
Eleven months ago, Grouplove and Milo Greene played an exhilarating night at the Hammer Museum, the most successful of 2011’s Also I Like to Rock Series. On Saturday on the main stage at Make Music Pasadena, the two L.A. indie-rock bands reprised that performance, Milo Greene’s jammy, harmony-laden folk leading into a headlining set from […]
One minute, Amanda Jo Williams is in the cosmos. The next, she’s in control. The Georgia-bred, L.A.-based songstress is hard to keep up with over the 43 minutes of her new album “The Bear Eats Me” (out Tuesday on Neurotic Yell Records), but that’s half the fun. The other half is playing free association with […]
Sarah Negahdari calls her musical tangent as Pisces her “mystic pop side project,” and judging from Pisces’ forthcoming debut EP, she is every bit as comfortable as a dream-weaver as she is an agitator fronting the indie-rock band the Happy Hollows. The EP is the first in a series of music Negahdari has recorded with […]
Refused, M83 and Beirut will be joined by James Blake, Quicksand, Yeasayer and Sleigh Bells on the bill for the newly expanded FYF Fest – now two days, Sept. 1 and 2 at Los Angeles State Historic Park downtown. Also of special interest: The return of Conor Obert’s Desaparecidos, the debut of the solo project […]
[For your planning pleasure, here’s a straight-up list of what’s ahead this week, with our picks:]