Soul revivalists and recent Dangerbird Records signees Fitz & the Tantrums [pictured], new indie-pop supergroup Admiral Radley and emerging L.A. rock bands Saint Motel and Voxhaul Broadcast highlight the lineup for this year’s Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum in July. The series, presented by the Hammer and KCRW-FM and curated […]
The title track to Admiral Radley’s debut album is called “I Heart California,” and it’s too bad the band couldn’t have put a winking emoticon after it. Because the California of Ad Rad – the new quartet featuring Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray of Earlimart and Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch of Grandaddy – is […]
Devendra Banhart hits L.A. for his first proper show since the release last fall of his first major-label album, “What Will We Be.” As Devendra Banhart and the Grogs, he’s touring with the same group of musicians who made the album – guitarists Noah Georgeson and Rodrigo Aramante, bassist Lucky Remington and drummer Greg Rogove. […]
My assignment for SPIN.com kept me tied up at the SPIN 25 party at Stubb’s all afternoon for nonstop music capped by Hole’s first North American concert in more than a decade. The highlight of the support bands that day was the indoors set from Harlem [above], whose crackling garage rock made me wish I […]
The Henry Clay People, whose classic rock-on-a-bender has won a large following in L.A., are signing to TBD Records, a subsidiary of ATO and the home to such bands as Radiohead, White Rabbits and Other Lives. The foursome’s new album, “Somewhere on the Golden Coast,” will be released in June in conjunction with the Ship […]
