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Blake Mills makes virtuosity look oh-so-easy in ‘Heigh Ho’ album-release show at the El Rey

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Review and photos by Michelle Shiers Twenty-eight-year-old Blake Mills wears many hats: guitarist, songwriter, producer, composer. Having just produced the forthcoming Alabama Shakes album, Mills is now touring behind his own album, “Heigh Ho,” released this week. Recorded at the legendary Ocean Way studio in a room also used by the likes of Frank Sinatra, […]

Tonight in L.A.: Blake Mills, Meg Myers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, Old Crow Medicine Show, Monarchy, Cloud Cult, Karen O, Becca Stevens Band, Roll the Tanks, Train, Chuck Ragan, Moving Units, Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Mystery Skulls, Lovelife

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A dizzying array of great shows for your Thursday: ‣ Neutral Milk Hotel, so sublime at Coachella heads up a great lineup at the Hollywood Bowl that also features the Breeders and Daniel Johnston. Caveat: The notoriously camera-shy Jeff Mangum has stipulated that Neutral Milk Hotel’s set not be shown on the Bowl’s big screens. […]

The Week Ahead: Sept. 15-21

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Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Jane’s Addiction, Failure, Cold War Kids, Empire of the Sun, Mayer Hawthorne, Tarfest, Hunter Hunted, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Mosco Rosco, Fenech-Soler, Soft Swells, Rise Against, Andrew Belle, Daedelus, Karen O, Buzzbocks, Coldplay, Train, De Lux, Magic Mirror, Vulpeck, Augustines, Chuck Ragan, Cheap Trick, Diana Ross, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, […]

Levitt 2024

Stream: Blake Mills, ‘If I’m Unworthy’

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Just when you think you’re heard every dialect of the language of guitar, along comes a guy like Blake Mills to make the instrument speak in tongues. We say “a guy like” in jest, of course; Blake has few peers in the rock world these days. None other than Eric Clapton recently said of the […]

Tonight in L.A.: The Waterboys, Fiona Apple/Blake Mills, Gogol Bordello, Little Green Cars, Max and the Moon, Spirit Vine, Haunted Summer, 2Cellos

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If it’s Monday, it must be … ‣ The Waterboys, their first album in five years “An Appointment With Mr. Yeats” drawing comparisons to the best of Mike Scott’s 30-year catalog, visit the El Rey Theatre. They’re on their first North American swing in six years and Freddie Stevenson opens. ‣ Their tour apparently got […]

Levitt 2024

The Week Ahead: Oct. 7-13

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Incoming: The Waterboys, Fiona Apple, Blake Mills, Gogol Bordello, 2Cellos, Little Green Cars, Tashaki Miyaki, Max & the Moon, Haunted Summer, Spirit Vine, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Daughter, Natalie Maines, Liam Finn, Spirit Animal, Fever the Ghost, Matthew Santos, the Maine, the Avett Brothers, Tom Odell, Bon Jovi, Culture Collide Festival, the Raveonettes, […]

Tonight in L.A.: The Grammys and other music

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Top show picks should you need aural cleansing after watching the Grammys: ‣ Guitarist-around-town Blake Mills (pictured) quietly released a very good solo album, “Break Mirrors,” in 2010. The guy who has played with Julian Casablancas, Jenny Lewis, Band of Horses, Jesca Hoop and Simon Dawes (among others) plays a free show tonight at the […]

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