Your very busy and very steamy Friday night: ‣ Milo Greene returns to L.A. for a sold-out hometown show at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ‣ It’s a free night of music downtown at the FIGat7th Downtown Festival, with Allah Las, Brooklyn’s Prince Rama and Gothic Tropic. ‣ Baths headline the El Rey […]
Incoming: Justin Bieber, Booker T, Patty Griffin, Rachael Yamagata, Bosnian Rainbows, Com Truise, Robert Plant, Mavis Staples, David Ford, Ozomatli, Colin Stetson, the Soft Pack, Baths, Allah Las, Mike Epps, Erykah Badu, Wanda Jackson, Everclear, Beyoncé, Paper Route, Donavon Frankenreiter, Twin Shadow, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Snoop Dogg, Bob Log III, R. Kelly, Damian […]
As a follow-up to last year’s album “What Kind of World,” singer-songwriter Brendan Benson has embarked on a single-per-month project that he plans to wrap with a vinyl release later this year. Benson’s January effort, “Swimming,” is one of 28 songs on a free SXSW sampler assembled by HGTV and Paste and available through Noisetrade. […]
Your fantastic 1st of March: ‣ Hey, Jimmy Kimmel, you and Matt Damon are on the list: Morrissey and Patti Smith hold forth at Staples Center, winding up a week of anticipation and public relations adventures. ‣ Surfer Blood previews music off its forthcoming album “Pythons” (coming out this summer) at the Echo, with Grand […]
Incoming: The Residents, Gliss, Kan Wakan, A House for Lions, Warships, Ramona Falls, Goldroom, Com Truise, the Lions, Anberlin, Reckless Kelly, Flosstradamus, Francisco the Man, Willie Nelson, Califone, Surfer Blood, Dada, Happy Hollows, Hustle Roses, Rumours, Jukebox the Ghost, Galactic, the Breakestra, Bomb the Music Industry, the Devil Wears Prada, Gold Fields, Morrissey, Allah-Las, the […]
With M. Ward having postponed his Orpheum date until Feb. 7 (“I am sick as a brick and bedridden,” he said in apologizing to fans), here are tonight’s outings: ‣ Huge night for the local Innovative Leisure imprint: R&B time traveler Nick Waterhouse brings his band to the El Rey Theatre, supported by surf-pop specialists […]
[Photos and capsule reviews of selected sets from the Main Street Stage at Sunday’s FYF Fest:] Beirut, Yeasayer, Desaparecidos, Dinosaur Jr., Against Me!, King Khan, Givers, Nick Waterhouse, Allah-Las ||| Photos by Laurie Scavo After the jump, more photos and capsule reviews:
The “Nuggets” boxed sets are more fun than this. Really. The exploration of 1960s surf-rock by the Los Angeles quartet Allah-Las feel like a laboratory experiment. They’ve nailed the sound, perfected the vibe and aced the test – much in the same way pop genius Todd Rundgren did in 1980 with his recombinant Beatles chords on […]
Thurday’s things: ‣ They were electro before you: Pioneering electronic act and synth surrealists Tangerine Dream visit Club Nokia as part of the Electric Mandarine Tour. ‣ Brooklyn garage-poppers the Babies swing into the Echo, supported by Crazy Band, Low Flying Owls and Warships. ‣ Austin three-piece My Jerusalem, with an album produced by Spoon’s […]
When it comes to suspending your brain somewhere between stoner oblivion and psychedelic bliss, JUJU has mojo. The trance-y rock is the new venture of singer-guitarist Phil Pirrone (Jeffertiti’s Nile, A Static Lullaby, Casket Salesman) and Incan Abraham drummer Andrew Clinco. Over the drummer’s thunderous rhythms, Pirrone loops guitar and bass, building an almost primordial […]
