On the surface, this year’s Sunset Strip Music Festival looked bigger and better – two days of music on outdoor stages instead of one, with the most attractive lineup top-to-bottom ever, even with the late cancellations of Kaiser Chiefs and Minus the Bear. So where was everybody? Until the headlining sets, crowds were noticeably thinner […]
Friday, finally: ‣ Dutch producer and trance music guru Armin Van Buuren brings his five-hour “ARMIN Only: Intense” show to the Forum. ‣ Chuck Ragan & the Camaraderie headlines the Fonda, with the White Buffalo and Jonny Two Bags opening. Above, the video for “Something May Catch Fire.” ‣ Rhett Miller and Old 97’s play […]
Incoming: Morrissey, Tom Jones, tUnE-yArDs, Air Life, In the Valley Below, the Mercy Beat, Jarell Perry, the Acetates, Rey Pila, Todd Snider, Hamilton Leithauser, Max Collins, the Bad Plus, Ray LaMontagne, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Jenny Lewis, Needtobreathe, Dead Sara, Afternoons, Kina Grannis, O.A.R., Tycho, Ingrid Michaelson, Acid Mothers Temple, the Pains of Being Pure at […]
Incoming: Coachella, Lawrence Rothman, Banta, Mystic Braves, Mosco Rosco, On An On, Ziggy Marley, Foster the People, Katie Herzig, Summer Camp, Ingrid Michaelson, Boy & Bear, STRFKR, the Dead Ships, Beck, the Knife, RAC, De Lux, Together Pangea, Chromeo, FKA Twigs, Disclosure, Motorhead, Ruby Friedman, Joe Ely, Switchfoot, Pet Shop Boys, Eastern Conference Champions, Karsh […]
Big things for your Thursday: ‣ Raise a glass: Los Lobos celebrate 40 years as a band – and the release of a new live album “Disconnected in New York” – with a show at the Whisky a Go Go, where East L.A. legends will be joined by the Blasters featuring Dave and Phil Alvin. […]
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 […]
By Gabriel Jones There was no shortage of sensory assault at the show headlined by the Postal Service at the Greek Theatre on Tuesday night. Baths, local musician Will Wiesenfeld’s solo project, opened the show with a set that sounded like he’d grown up listening to the Postal Service’s “Give Up” and put it through […]
Incoming: Wolfmother, the Postal Service, Savages, Bastille, Davis Fetter, Futurebirds, PAPA, the Happy Hollows, NO, Candlebox, the 1975, Big Freedia, Hockey, Saint Motel, the Belle Brigade, Modest Mouse, Skylar Grey, No Age, Night Terrors of 1927, Glassjaw, Dan Wilson, Twin Shadow, Bauhaus, Rancid, Viva Pomona, International Pop Overthrow, the Cult, Courtney Love, Frightened Rabbit, Fitz […]
A huge Grammy weekend Saturday night: ‣ Might he cover Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour?” Austin’s Gary Clark Jr. does a show at the Roxy they’re calling “A Late Night With Gary Clark Jr.” – it starts at 11:59 p.m. ‣ The legendary Dr. John visits the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Grammy-nominated Ed Sheeran holds […]
Incoming: Matt Costa, Dirty Projectors, Silverstein, Kris Allen, the Pharcyde, Emeli Sandé, Delta Rae, ZZ Ward, Kan Wakan, Gliss, M. Ward, Solange, OFF!, Trombone Shorty, the Little Ones, Nick Waterhouse, Chelsea Wolfe, the B-52’s, Dr. John, Ed Sheeran, Wayne Shorter, Ellie Goulding, Petra Haden, Big Freedia, Emmylou Harris, Deadmau5 Above: The video for Dirty Projectors’ […]
