[Salutations to birthday guy Carlos Santana today. Here’s what’s up tonight:] NYC shoegaze/jangle-pop quartet the Pains of Being Pure at Heart [pictured], who played great shows at SXSW and at Spaceland earlier this year, return to L.A. – fresh from the Pitchfork Music Festival – for an engagement at the Echo. … If you like […]
[Check it out now: Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) celebrates a birthday today.] Monday residencies continue tonight with notable support: At Spaceland, Andy Clockwise leads the indie dance party with Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head [pictured]. … Japanese Motors revs up the Echo with Correatown. … And Last American Buffalo brings noir-tinged americana rock to the […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to songbird Nanci Griffith – now on to ways you can work off the holiday weekend hangover …] July’s free residencies bring some new flavors to the Eastside clubs: Australian transplant Andy Clockwise unleashes his biting, boisterous bar rock at Spaceland, where his track “Everybody’s in a Band” ought to […]
[Why, it’s Paula Abdul’s birthday today. Isn’t that nice …] Today: A seriously busy weekend gets started with the seriously beautiful orchestral maneuvers of Grizzly Bear, who are joined by Here We Go Magic to play a (very) sold-out show at the Wiltern. … It’s also opening night at the Hollywood Bowl, where the Bowl […]
[If you can get your noses out of your taxes for a moment, raise a glass today for birthday girl Loretta Lynn …] Another Coachella warm-up show hits the Glass House in Pomona – tonight it’s TV on the Radio, joined by Ikey Owens and Free Moral Agents. … Kimya Dawson, whose latest post-Moldy Peaches […]
[Happy birthday to Ian Brown of the Stone Roses … when’s that next show, dude?] Tonight: Thurston Moore is playing the Smell, and here’s hoping the regulars get in. … Big rawk shows all over: At the three-day tattoo to-do Musink at the O.C. Fairgrounds, the headliners the next three days are Rev. Horton Heat, […]
