There’s hardly a better way to make new friends and influence people than hitting events like the 76th Annual Chinatown Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. At least, that’s what the six bands who played Saturday night’s Live Music Stage near the Chinatown Central Plaza found. Crash Kings headlined with an energetic set of music from their two […]
Another super Saturday: ‣ Chinatown caps its popular Summer Night series with its Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, and it’s another stacked night. The LA Weekly-sponsored live music stage curated by Buzz Bands LA features Crash Kings [pictured], Dorothy, Mosco Rosco, SD3 (featuring Cary Brothers), the Singles and Run Things at Chinatown Central Plaza. Loads of family activities, a stellar […]
Soulful dance-rockers Mosco Rosco – the L.A. quartet formerly known as Harper Blynn – have been added to the lineup for the Live Music Stage at the 76th Annual Chinatown Moon Festival, Saturday’s free, all-ages celebration taking place near the Chinatown’s Central Plaza. Mosco Rosco, sailing through a year of energetic shows including a Satellite residency, […]
Incoming: Chinatown Moon Festival, Lobsterfest, Fenech-Soler, Soft Swells, Lou Barlow, Linus Young, Fathers & Suns, Gary Calamar, Barcelona, Miles Tackett, Decorator, the Entrance Band, Charlotte OC, YG, Swans, Waters, Wartime Recitals, Boyz II Men, EFG, Sturgill Simpson, Band of Heathens, Lily Kershaw, Marc Anthony, Linkin Park, Earth, Goldroom, Sean Hayes, Slow Magic, Too Short, Katey […]
Keyboard-driven rock trio Crash Kings, already at work on a follow-up to last year’s album “Dark of the Daylight,” will headline the 76th Annual Chinatown Mid-Autumn Moon Festival on Saturday, Sept. 13. The band – brothers Tony and Mike Beliveau and Tommy Rose – will be joined by fast-rising rock quartet Dorothy, dance-music phenoms Beat Club, SD3 […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ Night 1 of the 24th annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas goes off at the Shrine Auditorium, with Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, AFI, Arctic Monkeys, Cage the Elephant, Grouplove, Foals and New Politics. ‣ Seattle folk-rockers the Head and the Heart headline the Wiltern behind their new […]
Incoming: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, De Lux, Cat Power, Froth, VUM, the Wild Reeds, Xiu Xiu, BLEAUX, Entrance Band, Sam Smith, Howie Day, Tapioca & the Flea, Mikal Cronin, Redd Kross, Pretty Lights, Beyonce, Pusha T, Bright Light Bright Light, LA Font, Conquistador, Every Time I Die, Mirror Days, Problem, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, the […]
Wednesday’s show lineup: ‣ Grammy-nominated Malian duo Amadou & Mariam visit the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “Folila.” That’s their video for “Africa mon Afrique,” above. ‣ Crash Kings celebrate the release of their new album “Dark of the Daylight” with a show at the Troubadour, supported by Atomic Tom and Night Riots. Check […]