Alabama Shakes feed the fervor at the Greek Theatre
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Performing in support of their new album “Sound & Color,” Brittany Howard and band had a huge crowd whooping and clapping along while she owned the stage.
Performing in support of their new album “Sound & Color,” Brittany Howard and band had a huge crowd whooping and clapping along while she owned the stage.
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, […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
By Jeffrey Harvey Fiona Apple and Blake Mills brought their 15-date “Anything We Want” tour to Disney Hall on Monday night. The show’s title should have served as a not-so-subtle hint to those who felt inclined to shout out song requests during the performance, but alas, fans did. “You can keep yelling them out, but […]
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 […]
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, […]
Ever since we first saw him in the young band Simon Dawes, Blake Mills has been a marvel. And the guitarist, songwriter and (now) producer continues to be. He’s the subject of a new mini-documentary that takes a look at his prodigious talents. Mills, 25, has not only played astride myriad L.A. artists (and released […]
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 […]