It’s been 12 years since Kermit and the gang left the screen, but talk about Muppet invasion. The gang celebrates their comeback in the new Muppets film, which also stars Jason Segel (who knows both music and puppets) and Amy Adams (who knows both music and Disney), by teaming up with one of the most […]
Sunset Junction is off. The L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday unanimously rejected the Sunset Junction Street Fair’s permit for this weekend’s festival, ending a week’s worth of drama that included impassioned arguments for and against the two-day event, initial rejection of the festival’s application and a frantic 36-hour fund-raising effort by organizers to […]
Indie rock, benefits and more: ‣ Two of the night’s biggest shows are benefits – the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ gig at Club Nokia (for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music) and Fiona Apple at Largo (for the Littlest Tumor Foundation, a neurofibromatosis charity). ‣ Meiko warms up for a big September tour with a date […]
By Shannon Cosgrove People in ripped rock shirts and leather jackets, along with a guy in a KISS outfit, were greeted by reggae music, dreadlocks and puffs of smoke at the entrance of the Sunset Strip Music Festival on Saturday. “Welcome to the birthplace of rock ’n’ roll!” a 98.7 DJ shouted to nonchalant passers-by […]
What the brawny rock from L.A.-based trio Falling Still lacks in imagination, it makes up for in energy. The Ohio-bred band of Eric Podnar, Brett Hamilton and Jeremy Cull have their sonic roots in the roaring ’90s, and the smirky video for their single “I Am the Dr” – directed by horror filmmaker Trent Haaga […]
UPDATED, 5:30 p.m.: Sunset Junction organizers have raised the $141,000 in city fees to resubmit their case to the L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday morning. The morning post: Organizers of the beleaguered Sunset Junction Street Fair are scrambling to collect donations in an effort to reach the $141,000 they need to induce the […]
If we had to choose an anthem for singles during last call, Jail Weddings‘ track, “Somebody Lonely” would be a likely candidate. With lyrics such as “Gonna find somebody lonely tonight” and “somebody I don’t even know,” it aches desperation, but Gabe Hart and his crew have found yet another way to brighten soul-troubling anecdotes […]
Tonight in our fair city: ‣ Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, their new album “Mirror Traffic” out today, play a 6 p.m. in-store at Amoeba that will be streamed live on the Internet. ‣ Local psych-rockers Xu Xu Fang have some new music in the works, and a show at the Satellite with Alain Johannes […]
Those ellipses L.A. songstress Arrica Rose has tacked onto her band name represent tacit acknowledgment to the many contributors who worked on her third release, “Let Alone Sea.” But the punctuation in Arrica Rose & the …’s (say: “dot dot dots”) could also be a metaphor for her songwriting skins. Rose takes her pointed confessionals […]
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works voted this morning 3-1 to deny a permit for this weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair – but the matter may be reconsidered at the commissioners’ next meeting on Wednesday morning. With only Commissioner Valerie Lynn Shaw – who admitted she’d never heard of Sunset Junction until this year’s […]
