Here’s your Wednesday: ‣ Long-running electro provocateurs Beats Antique play the first of two L.A.-area dates on its “A Thousand Faces” tour, which features an extravagant set and high-tech digital visuals. Tonight, the band visits the Yost Theater in O.C. (On Friday, they’re at the Fonda Theatre.) Above, their animated video for “”Beelzebub feat. Les […]
Incoming: Andrew McMahon, Diane Coffee, Sparks, Of Montreal, Blink-182, M.I.A., the Fratellis, Minor Alps, Alison Moyet, Cults, the Cartel, Strange Markings, Quasi, Mad Professor, Only You, Melt Banana, Lupe Fiasco, Mason Jennings, Cass McCombs, Big Freedia, the Vim Dicta, Jonathan Wilson, Steve Aoki, Iggy Azalea, Waka Flocka Flame, Beats Antique, Mayday Parade, the Record Company, Vienna […]
Lots of choices for your Friday fun: ‣ San Francisco’s the Fresh & Onlys [see their video for “Presence of Mind”] team up with Terry Malts for a show at the Echo. ‣ The Heavy [see their video for “What Makes a Good Man?] play the El Rey Theatre with the Silent Comedy as support. […]
Contributor Scott Dudelson shares photos from all around Sunday’s third day of Coachella 2012, which closed out the first of this year’s two weekends. Concert photography by Scott Dudelson
One special show: ‣ Matthew Sweet’s “Girlfriend” remains one of my favorite albums of all time – along with the Posies’ “Frosting on the Beater,” it was the best power-pop album of its era, and deservedly earns mentions on any shortlist of the top power-pop albums ever made. Sweet’s sweet melodies and bittersweet lyrics were […]
Tonight is the first of two nights to catch Those Darlins [download] in town when they play the Silverlake Lounge with The Grates and Leslie and the Badgers. … You know Brakesbrakesbrakes has got it goin’ on when their singer quits British Sea Power (Eamon Hamilton moonlighted as keyboardist in the fellow Brighton band) to […]