Options for your lovely fall Saturday: ‣ The Newport Folk Festival comes west, as Way Over Yonder at the Santa Monica Pier offers a lineup featuring Neko Case, Brett Dennen, Calexico, Justin Townes Earle, Jenny O., Eagle Rock Gospel Singers and more. Here are your set times. That’s Neko Case, above; her sixth album “The […]
The name of KCRW’s holiday benefit show posed the so-rhetorical-it’s-silly question “Are Friends Eclectic? Gee, waddya think? You’d be hard-pressed to find the fare at Saturday’s four-plus-hour concert in the same time zone, let alone on the same spot on your FM dial. While “Eclectic’s” genial host, KCRW music director Jason Bentley, repeatedly marveled about […]
Big weekend, big Saturday: ‣ Make Music Pasadena: brings a truckload of great bands to venues throughout and around downtown Pasadena. Among them: The Morning Benders, Ra Ra Riot, Saint Motel, Kisses, Best Coast, Hello Seahorse!, Seasons, Jenny O, the Lonely Wild, Rocky Dawuni, Zola Jesus, Tijuana Panthers, Carla Morrison and NewVillager. ‣ Dutch producer/DJ […]
[Tim Booth of James turns 50 today? It’s not so bad north of the half-century mark, lad … salute. Meanwhile, in L.A. environs, it’s a busy night:] Imaad Wasif, whose album “The Voidist” made our 2009 a whole lot better, kicks off a three-week residency at Spaceland – each of those Thursdays have a theme. […]
[Happy birthday to Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers, and here are some shows you might want to drive by …] I dare you to see An Horse [pictured] and not be completely won over. The Aussie duo is at the Echoplex with Nova Scotia’s Wintersleep. … Then again, you could be won over by […]
