Happy June: ‣ Make Music Pasadena, the annual one-day festival of free concerts, goes off at multiple venues throughout Pasadena, with YACHT, We Are Scientists, Robert DeLong, Tanlines, Taken by Trees, Superhumanoids, Las Cafeteras, Hunter Hunted, the Peach Kings, the New Limb, Radar Bros., Torreblanca, High Places, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, the Dustbowl Revival, […]
From the massive theater provided by Sigur Ros and Empire of the Sun to the sweet sounds of Michael Kiwanuka and Devendra Banhart, the second day of this year’s Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre had plenty of highlights. Photographer Carl Pocket, who found time to check out the acoustic sets from Black Rebel […]
Black Rebel Motorcycle is back, not just with their characteristic roar but with some spacious, ambient moments as well. The trio of Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been and Leah Shapiro recently announced that their seventh full-length (or sixth if you discount the 2008 instrumental album), “Specter at the Feast” would be out March 19 via […]
The end? Not so fast: ‣ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club previews material from its forthcoming sixth album at a cozy show at the Troubadour. Restavrant opens. ‣ Rufus and Martha Wainwright do a big Christmas show at UCLA’s Royce Hall, with special guests Emmylou Harris, Van Dyke Parks and Carrie Fisher. ‣ Dillon Francis does […]
Incoming: Peace, the Grouch & Eligh, Aaron Neville, Social Distortion, Lifehouse, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Haim, Robert Francis, Big Black Delta, Bell Gardens, Faded Paper Figures, Jonathan Wilson, the Growlers, Dillon Francis, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Supersuckers, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, the Vandals Above: Orlando Higginbottom, aka Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, brings […]
Midweek meanderings: ‣ Long-running art-rock trio Yo La Tengo hits the El Rey Theatre with a plan to play two 45-minute sets; the songs in the first will be determined by the spin of a giant wheel (categories include “Songs Starting With S,” “Name Game” and “Dump,” the James McNew side project). ‣ The Global […]
My top 4 midweek outings: ‣ The Walkmen (joined by Japandroids) headline the Music Box behind the release of their fifth album “Lisbon.” ‣ AA Bondy, whose set was one of the highlights of the recent FYF Fest, plays Spaceland along with fellow folkie JBM. ‣ Power-pop Bleu (whose new album “Four” will be out […]
Black leather never goes out of fashion. And to a certain population – represented by the giddy crowd that packed the Echoplex on Thursday night – neither does the music of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Revivalists when they first roared into our consciousness early last decade, Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been have now become […]
[Huge weekend ahead. And that’s even before I decide how to commemorate Quincy Jones’ 77th birthday on Sunday.] Tonight: Great pairing at the Troubadour – local trio the Happy Hollows, slowly gaining attention after the re-release of “Spells” early this year on Autumn Tone, headline, and the Veils [pictured], the U.K. quartet whose 2009 album […]
Slow Club, the U.K. duo gaining attention for its quavering folk-pop, makes its L.A. debut tonight at Spaceland. The band’s debut album “Yeah So” is due March 30 on Moshi Moshi Records. … More beautiful folk at the Troubadour, where Dawes, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons and Jason Boesel perform. … It’ll be considerably […]
