L.A. favorites FIDLAR, Allah-Las, Bleached, Together Pangea, Tijuana Panthers and Gap Dream will join the previously announced Black Lips as some of the more than 50 bands playing Burger Records’ Burgerama 3 on March 22-23 at the Observatory in Orange County. The Black Lips will headline the first day, which also features Death, Nobunny, the […]
Here’s a mostly-local Tuesday: ‣ Bleached and Together Pangea team up to rock Alex’s Bar in Long Beach ‣Â Chicago rapper Rockie Fresh and teams up with L.A.’s Casey Veggies for a free show at the Echoplex. ‣ Nacosta celebrates the release of a new single and video at the Silverlake Lounge, supported by Stella, Brett […]
We are not fans of Halloween, unless you are under the age of 14 and have a sweet tooth, or are charged with shepherding small humans under the age of 14 who have a sweet tooth. We have trouble enough dressing up as ourselves, I guess. Anyway, it’s Oct. 31 and Bleached made a Halloween […]
Random encounters of the festival kind on Friday night Filter magazine’s Culture Collide, as reported by Kevin Bronson, Seraphina Lotkhamnga, Andrew Veeder and Joe Giuliano, with photos by Carl Pocket: Highlight of the night London five-piece Duologue is one of those bands that can turn you into a weepy, emotional kid while your left brain […]
Could be quite a Friday … ‣ Big day at Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide festival in Echo Park – Medicine, Bleached, Miami Horror, the Pack A.D., F*ck Buttons, Gemini Club, Duologue and Secret Shine are bulleted on our schedule today, but there’s much more. Updated set times at the end of this post. Above, F*ck […]
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, […]
Happy Sunday: ‣ King of R&B R. Kelly headlines a night at the Staples, but supporting acts aren’t too shabby either… New Edition and the Jacksons, anyone? ‣ Gospel singer Kirk Franklin has a big night at Club Nokia. ‣ Damian Marley, Stephen Marley, Third World and the Ghetto Youths Crew take over the Hollywood Bowl. ‣ Smoke Season [Check […]
Sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin, now enjoying success as Bleached after putting Mika Miko in the rear-view mirror, have been the pin-up girls for punk and cool since releasing early singles such as “Searching for the Past” on Suicide Squeeze. From riding motorcycles to crowd surfing, their lackadaisical attitude and scuzzy melodies won even more […]
The opener of the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival might have been light on the crowds, but there was no shortage of energy from the performers. Kitten [top photo], Trash Talk, the Black Lips and Obliterations peeled what was left of the paint off the the downtown warehouse complex that hosted the venue, and whether […]
For all its promotional heft, the reinvented, relocated Jubilee Music & Arts Festival on Friday felt like Introduction to Concert-Going. That owed mostly to the crowd, which was not only alarmingly sparse but very young. Rosy-cheeked fans moved in gaggles, bouncing to music from peers such as teenaged quartet Cherry Glazerr, moshing to rough-and-tumble rockers […]
