Incoming: Music Tastes Good, Tarfest, Desert Stars, Fool’s Gold Day Off, Black Sabbath, Hall & Oates, Mumford & Sons, Gallant, Dinosaur Jr., Ash, Lush, Animal Collective, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Catfish & the Bottlemen, Twin Shadow, Jane’s Addiction, Cold War Kids, Band of Skulls, Sigur Ros, Peter Hook & the Light, Bloc Party
A great big Sunday in store: ‣ Pixies head up a rockin’ night at the Hollywood Bowl that also features Cat Power and Gogol Bordello. ‣ The star-studded George Fest at the Fonda Theatre salutes the music of George Harrison – it features guests such as Brian Wilson, Norah Jones, Brandon Flowers & Mark Stoermer […]
Incoming: Way Over Yonder, Big Star Third, George Fest, Drake, Interpol, Motopony, the Rescues, La Roux, Lykke Li, Tears for Fears, Youth Code, Slash, Denny White, the Raveonettes, A Day to Remember, Jaymes Young, Yellowman, Shyboy, the Eeries, Justin Nozuka, Allen Stone, Temples, the Kooks, Simian Mobile Disco, Rocco DeLuca, Mia Doi Todd, Hank 3, […]
The Abbot Kinney Festival celebrates 30 years on Sunday, Sept. 28, with entertainment on five stages – including music from the likes of Tom Freund, Adrian Younge’s Venice Dawn, the Tyde, Bart Davenport, Aaron Embry and Harriet – along with art, vendors, food trucks and children’s activities. DJs from the Dublab, Hit City USA and Guns […]
A very busy Sunday: ‣ The XX visit the Hollywood Bowl as the U.K. trio wraps up touring behind their widely praised album “Coexist.” Chromatics and Austra support. ‣ Arctic Monkeys kick off a sold-out, three-show stand at the Wiltern behind their new album “AM,” their fifth full-length. Mini Mansions open. ‣ It’s Night 2 […]
AM & Shawn Lee, Gavin Turek, Moses Sumney, Cosmic Kids and the Chain Gang of 1974 are among the artists playing this year’s Abbot Kinney Festival, the free neighborhood event going off Sept. 29 in Venice. There’s music on two stages from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. along Abbot Kinney Boulevard between Main Street and […]
Nite Jewel, joined by Slow Magic, Living Things, American Royalty, Them Jeans, DWNTWN and Aaron Embry, among others, heads up the musical lineup for this year’s Abbot Kinney Festival, going off Sunday in Venice. Nite Jewel (that’s her video for “Clive,” above) is riding high on the release of her album “One Second of Love” […]
Not a simple Sunday: ‣ The Hollywood Bowl and its indie rocking summer series comes to an end with TV on the Radio headlining. The night’s chock-full lineup of artists also includes Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Warpaint and Smith Westerns. ‣ Folk singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow plays a second night at the Bootleg. Grab his […]
It’s a monster weekend ahead – and not just for Hanni El Khatib, who does the Abbot-Kinney Festival en route to his album release show for “Will the Guns Come Out” (Monday night at the Echo). On Saturday, there’s free music at the Frogtown Art Walk, as well as a beer-sponsored event called “Walk the […]
