[Happy birthday, Jonesy. We miss your jukebox …] Keeping it very brief today: Which legend you wanna see? Patti Smith plays a free show at the Santa Monica Pier, while the Pretenders, joined by Cat Power, are at the Greek Theatre. …. Nine Inch Nails plays the second of its four SoCal shows at the […]
[It was 45 years ago today … that the Beatles played their first American concert, in Washington D.C.] Orenda Fink [pictured] was just in town in late November, for a one-off reunion show with Maria Taylor as Azure Ray. Now she’s back (playing Bordello, with Whispertown 2000 and others) and has some new material in […]
[Happy birthday, Roberta Flack …] Cat Power, with local purveyors of tropicalia Fool’s Gold opening, plays the Avalon. .. The Gutter Twins – that’s Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan – hold forth at the Troubadour. … The Parson Red Heads swoop into the Echo for their first show of 2009 – frontman Evan Way says […]
