Incoming: Chinatown Summer Nights, Echo Park Rising, H2O Music Festival, Buskerfest, the Peach Kings, Yeasayer, Deap Vally, San Cisco, Kopecky Family Band, Rick Ross, Natalie Cole, Kopecky Family Band, Jamie N Commons, the Neighbourhood, the English Beat, Mamak Khadem, No Age, Jonas Brothers, Queens of the Stone Age, Lavender Diamond, Daniel Bedingfield, Ulrich Schnauss, Best […]
Green Day, such crowd-pleasers when they visited Pomona in March, came back around for a good old-fashioned arena show on Thursday and again thrilled a full house. The punk-rock veterans played for 2 1/2 hours (counting encores) on Thursday at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, touched on songs from every one of their albums and […]
Another bountiful day of shows: ‣ Some must’ve gone and declared it Punk Rock Thursday – Green Day (with Best Coast supporting, which is kind of curious, we admit) rocks the Sports Arena. See our review of Green Day’s March show in Pomona. ‣ And L.A. stalwarts Bad Religion team up with the Bronx to […]
Here’s your big Thursday: ‣ Best Coast and NO close out the Twilight Summer Series with a free show at the Santa Monica Pier. ‣ Legendary sound collagists Negativland hold forth at the Echoplex – the Bay Area provocateurs have a show titled “My Favorite Things” opening Friday at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in […]
[We’re late with our post, due to the holiday weekend and your humble editor’s FYF Fest hangover …] Incoming: Best Coast, Jillinda Palmer, the Vibrators, Negativland, B.B. King, the Heavy, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Big Black Delta, Dead Meadow, Linkin Park, Mary J. Blige, Hot Chip, Dave Matthews Band, the Fresh & Onlys Above: The […]
Happy first day of August: ‣ The U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach kicks off three consecutive days of music with a late afternoon/early evening beach bash featuring Best Coast and Walk the Moon. ‣ It’s music New Orleans-style at the Hollywood Bowl, where the Neville Brothers bring their farewell tour, and Trombone Shorty […]
Incoming: Hard Summer 2012, the New L.A. Folk Fest, Kelly Clarkson, Neon Trees, Andy Clockwise, the Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Tenacious D, Jason Falkner, the Mynabirds, Best Coast, Tears for Fears, TV on the Radio, Grouplove, Real Estate, the Belle Brigade, Beachwood Sparks, the Bangles, Tempest and more. Above: Chrysta Bell, the singer who collaborated with […]
The calendar for free summertime concert series is rapidly filling, but there is one longtime favorite that will be conspicuously absent this year: the Also I Like to Rock shows at the Hammer Museum. Also I Like to Rock had a seven-year run of bringing live music to the Hammer courtyard every Thursday in July. […]
Decisions, decisions, decisions … your Friday night is full of ’em: ‣ Best Coast kicks off a three-month tour by headlining the Wiltern behind its new album “The Only Place.” Jeff The Brotherhood and Abe Vigoda set the table. ‣ Dum Dum Girls launch a busy L.A. weekend (they’re at the Getty on Saturday) with […]
The new material from Best Coast – whose sophomore album “The Only Place” arrives May 15 – seems soaked in “woe-is-me” and “I-don’t-know,” but there was no lack of certitude Friday at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, where the L.A. quartet was second-billed at the annual SPIN party during South by Southwest.
