Incoming: The Weeknd, Banks, HIM, Dear Boy, Free Energy, Zak Waters, Laura Mvula, KING, Lee Dewyze, Grouplove, Valient Thorr, Bastille, Butch Walker, Parachute, King Krule, Body Language, Meiko, Cold War Kids, The Julie Ruin, Stars, the Orb, Midlake, FIDLAR, Gold Panda, Thievery Corporation, Lynard Skynard, Valerie June, Dirty Beaches, Cold Cave, Telepathe, Diana Krall, Juliette […]
Here’s your huge Friday: ‣ Barry Manilow does the first of three nights at the Greek Theatre. ‣ Remember the year 2000 and how great the Dandy Warhols’ “Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia” was? They’re performing that album, which just got the deluxe release treatment, tonight at the Wiltern. at the Wiltern ‣ Now ensconced […]
Incoming: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bjork, the 88, Radar Bros., Parson Red Heads, Snowden, Caifanes, Tijuana No, Beth Orton, Fall Out Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Alkaline Trio, Emily Wells, Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Barry Manilow, the Dandy Warhols, CSS, Cold Cave, Ozma, Nightmare & the Cat, Robert DeLong, Robert Earl Keen, the Bats, Peter […]
Happy Sunday: ‣ The supergroup of Britt Daniels, Dan Boeckner and Sam Brown, Divine Fits, play the Fonda Theatre in support of their album “A Thing Called Divine Fits” (out now on Merge). That’s their Brian Butler-directed video above for “Would That Not Be Nice.” Cold Cave open with their new lineup. [Check out “A […]
Cold Cave has gone through numerous lineups since Wes Eisold began releasing music under the moniker, and the latest group he’s put together is pretty impressive. With the help of new members Hunter Burgan (AFI), London May (Samhain) and Cody Votolato (Blood Brothers), Cold Cave will be going back in to the studio to record […]
Oh, it’s just another massive Saturday: ‣ In support of their forthcoming record “III” (out Nov 3. Fiction Records), Crystal Castles headline the Hollywood Palladium with strong supporting bands HEALTH and Kontravoid. ‣ The Echoplex gets rocked by the Soft Pack, Crocodiles and Heavy Hawaii. ‣ The Jealous Sound, Weatherbox and Cardboard Lamb all team […]
If tonight’s show list were any longer, it’d be a Phish song: ‣ New York’s Penguin Prison brings his dancey electro-pop to the Echo, supported by American Royalty. That’s Penguin Prison’s Occupy Wall Street-inspired video for “Don’t F*ck With My Money,” above. ‣ M83 and Big Black Delta do a second sold-out night at Club […]
[Happy birthday to Pete Yorn, 37 years old today. Here’s what’s up tonight …] Your midweek mix: ‣ It’s a homecoming of sorts for Richie James Follin, the O.C. native who fronts (fronted?) the Willowz for four albums and now lives on the other coast making doo wop-meets-Kinks music as Guards. Guards have more substance […]
[Just because you’re steering clear of freeways during Carmageddon, doesn’t mean you have to sit still at home. Grab these fresh new remixes to keep your summer parties going…] CSS, “Hits Me Like a Rock (Dillon Francis Remix)” – Cansei de Ser Sexy, aka CSS, will be back with a brand new album titled “La […]
By Gabriel Jones In one of the stranger passages from David Foster Wallace’s 2006 essay on his visit to the Adult Video Awards, Wallace describes an interview with an L.A. policeman who also happens to be a connoisseur of hard-core pornography. When the detective is asked why he’s into that stuff, he answers that it’s […]
