Incoming: Xavier Rudd, Ellie Goulding, Freelance Whales, First Aid Kit, Carrie Underwood, Bombay Bicycle Club, Neil Young, Lupe Fiasco, Don Felder, Stars, Los Campesinos!, the Whigs, Twin Shadow, Woods, ZZ Ward, Leon Russell, Paul Weller, Allen Stone, Frightened Rabbit, the Growlers, Maroon 5, Crocodiles, Crystal Castles, the Soft Pack, the Jealous Sound, Dan Deacon, Peaches, […]
[Our “Week Ahead” post is back, thanks to new intern Anna. As we reboot this feature, it’ll be a work in progress – leave a comment or email with omissions. That said, here’s what’s happening show-wise for the next seven days:]
On this Sunday, some of the good stuff starts early: ‣ Philadelphia trio Good Old War visits the Avalon Hollywood behind its new album “Come Back As Rain,” with L.A.’s own the Belle Brigade and Family of the Year opening. ‣ Big doings at the Bootleg Theater, where KXLU’s LA Psych Fest brings the Entrance […]
Great Saturday ahead: ‣ Here’s a show that comes with all the fixings – the Burger Records mini-festival Burgerama goes off at the Observatory in Santa Ana, featuring OFF! (pictured at Coachella last year), Wavves, Ty Segall, the Strange Boys, FIDLAR, White Fence, King Tuff, the Lovely Bad Things, Dirt Dress, Audacity, Pangea, Feeding People, Tomorrow’s […]
[Here’s Claudine V. with our look ahead to next week’s shows, along with the video for “Calling Me Names” by Good Old War, playing next Sunday at the Avalon:] Incoming: The Temper Trap, Nada Surf, Sharon Van Etten, Of Montreal, the Naked and Famous, Lucero, the Magnetic Fields, the Ting Tings, the Lumineers, Y La […]
Blue-eyed soul singers have come and gone, from Hall and Oates in the ’80s to boy bands in the ’90s to the current crop of revivalists, all with different shades on the genre and all with varying shelf life. At a sold-out show at the Echo on Friday night, Allen Stone, the 24-year-old preacher’s son […]
Fantastic Friday things: ‣ Old-school R&B adventurer Nick Waterhouse, at work on a debut album coming out in the spring, brings his edgy, vintage sounds to the Bootleg Theater. [Refresher: See the video for “I Can Only Give You Everything.”] The Allah Las and Anna Egge support. ‣ At the Echo, it’s soul phenom Allen […]
Leave it to a white boy from Chewelah, Wash., with nerdy red glasses to disguise a letter addressing politics as a love song in the style of D’Angelo. In fact, it wouldn’t be a surprise if a first-time listener already mistook 24-year-old Allen Stone for the infamous soul singer. But even with heavy influences that […]
