Tonight in L.A.: Burger A Go-Go (Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls, Bleached), HARD Summer (Jack U, A$AP Mob, Flosstradamus), Summer on Seventh (Peanut Butter Wolf, YACHT, De Lux), Beyoncé/Jay Z, Arcade Fire/Dan Deacon, more
Another super Saturday: ‣ Burger A Go-Go happens at the Observatory with Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls, Bleached, the Coathangers, Shannon & the Clams, the Muffs, Peach Kelli Pop, Summer Twins, Colleen Green, the Aquadolls, SISU, Slow Paradise, Massenger, Death Valley Girls, the Fly Traps, LA Witch, Raw Geronimo, Meow Twins, Cheryll, Tashaki Miyaki and Teenage Burritos. […]
Incoming: La Santa Cecilia, Doja Cat, te Hold Steady, Boston, Ruben Blades, Xiu Xiu, Deluka, Shabazz Palaces, Aerosmith, Aan, Dub Thompson, the Dustbowl Revival, Echo & the Bunnymen, Lifehouse, Omar Souleyman, Foxy Shazam, Hundred Waters, Hamilton Leithauser, the Budos Band, White Arrows, International Pop Overthrow, Arcade Fire, Las Cafeteras, Chicago, Kevin Barnes, Miniature Tigers, the […]
There’s an awful lot of the familiar in scruffy pop-punk of L.A.-based trio Upset, from the scratchy guitar chords to the rough-edged production to the teenaged angst. “She’s Gone” (just out on Don Giovanni Records) didn’t come from DIY corner of the 1990s, though; the band features three veterans with mileage on their indie-rock odometers […]
In conceiving Best Coast’s new video for the song “I Don’t Know,” frontwoman Bethany Cosentino says she was going for something “super fun and L.A.-inspired without doing anything at the beach like so many of our videos.” So director Patrick O’Dell convened at a Sun Valley skate park, where, Cosentino says, “I got to hang […]
Tuesday’s touts: ‣ AFI – back this week with “Burials,” its first new album since 2009, headlines the Fonda Theatre, with Touche Amore opening. ‣ Dream-pop trio Au Revoir Simone visits the Echoplex behind its new album “Move in Spectrums” [we shared the video for “Somebody Who,” here”]. Sophia Knapp, CALLmeKAT and My Hawaii support. […]
Tonight in L.A.: Animal Collective, Best Coast, Surfer Blood, Laura Marling, Twin Forks, Max & the Moon, Spirit Vine, Haunted Summer, PLUS, Lucy Schwartz, Kitten, Phantogram, Supersuckers
Is Monday night the new weekend, or what? ‣ Animal Collective brings its spectacular stage show to the Wiltern Theatre, where Dan Deacon opens. ‣ Best Coast headlines the Fonda Theatre behind this week’s release of its new mini-album “Fade Away.” It’s a benefit for the Los Angeles Animal Rescue, and Baby Alpaca and Death […]
Incoming: Animal Collective, Best Coast, Surfer Blood, Laura Marling, Twin Forks, Gossling, Phantogram, AFI, James Blake, STRFKR, Real Estate, Au Revoir Simone, Jenny Lewis, Leagues, Hunx & His Punx, Katy Perry, Tricky, Sanglorians, Spindrift, the Sounds, Mark Knopfler, Crystal Fighters, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Radical Face, J. Cole, NONONO, Streetlight Manifesto, Holly Conlan, Hanni El […]
Happy Monday, and we mean that: ‣ Best Coast does a second night at the El Rey Theatre, supported by Bleached and the Lovely Bad Things. ‣ Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran start their run of four concerts this week at Staples Center. ‣ U.K. singer-songwriter Kieran Leonard does a show at Harvard & Stone. […]
Incoming: FYF Fest, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Best Coast, Strange Talk, Pharaohs, the Polyphonic Spree, Buddy Guy, Quadron, Heart, Nick Waterhouse, Ty Segall, Maria Muldaur, the Breeders, Andrew Belle, Beth Hart, Kristin Chenoweth, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Deafheaven, Colin Hay, the Black Angels, the Airborne Toxic Event, Rocky Dawuni, Quetzal, Truth & Salvage Co., Steely […]
Your Sunday show menu: ‣ Ulrich Schnauss brings the dense, intense electronic music on his fourth album “A Long Way to Fall” to the Troubadour. Nostalghia and Mister Sushi support. That’s Schnauss’ video for “A Ritual in Time and Death,” above. ‣ Echo Park Rising roars into its second day with performances from the likes […]
