[No tantrums today – it’s Fitz’s birthday. Cheers to Michael Fitzpatrick on the eve of his band’s big homecoming show at the Music Box:] Tonight’s flurry of activity: ‣ This week’s installment of the free Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum will sizzle with a little joie de pop – headlining […]
Your pre-Carmageddon options: ‣ Talk to the animals? How about singing to them? Hands (pictured) and Abe Vigoda head up an eight-band lineup tonight for Music in the Zoo: Local Scene Night at the L.A. Zoo. The show is something of an open house-meets-picnic at the zoo, with the evening featuring two bands apiece on […]
Sunday’s touts including two Japan benefits… ‣ Acoustic singer-songwriter duo The Milk Carton Kids (previously known just as Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan) play two shows tonight to celebrate the release of their latest album, “Retrospect,” [see “Laredo”] at Hotel Cafe. ‣ Russsian-born pop artist Marina V. kicks off a Sunday residency for April over […]
Wild Nothing and Abe Vigoda closed out their national tour last week by playing the year’s third installment of the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays series, and there was dancing involved. If the out-and-out giddiness of Wild Nothing’s headlining set surprised some fans of Jack Tatum’s fuzzy dream-pop, it didn’t others, especially female fans who […]
Wild Nothing and Abe Vigoda rock the sold-out First Fridays show at the Natural History Museum tonight, and courtesy of Pop-Aut, you can watch it here. The webcast begins about 8 p.m.
The most startling revelation about Thursday night’s show at the Autry Museum was how apparently few of the hip kids know where the Autry Museum is. For the record, the house that “The Singing Cowboy” built is right across the parking lot from the L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park. And although none of the bands […]
Top shows to consider tonight while giving deep thought to why bands pepper us with breathless press releases for something so mundane as naming an album: ‣ The all-local lineup at the Autry Museum features an interesting mix, including Lord Huron performing with the Calder Quartet. Abe Vigoda headlines, and Gamble House also supports in […]
‣ Rockin’ with the fossils is one of our favorite L.A. rituals – at least the way that it’s done at the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays series. The festivities, which included honest-to-goodness intellectual activities followed by music (two live bands in the Diorama Hall, two DJs in the African Mammal Hall), kick off Jan. […]
[A moment of pause on what would have been Frank Zappa’s 70th birthday …] Top 4 shows tonight if you miss out on that secret Foo Fighters gig: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s Holiday Happening at the Echo features Lonely Trees (pictured), Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits, John Carpenter and Non Ultra Joy. Proceeds to the Pablove Foundation. […]
[It’s Lil Wayne’s birthday, but there probably won’t be much of a party in Rikers Island, where he’s currently doing time. Over the weekend, Eminem led the Epicenter Festival crowd in chants of “Free Lil Wayne.” Come November.] Top 6 shows on an inordinately busy and usually warm Monday night: ‣ The Black Keys tee […]
