“We want this to be where eco-minded people come to party,” Trapdoor Social’s Skylar Funk say of the Sunstock Solar Festival on June 18. Cults, Wavves and Allah-Las top the lineup.
The solar-powered Sunstock Solar Festival, the brainchild of Trapdoor Social’s Skylar Funk, goes off at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park on June 18. Eight bands in all, it’s for charity.
Also: The Dead Ships, Ducktails, the Sandwitches, Cults, Leftover Cuties, Work Drugs, Little Red Lung, KG Bird, Dorian Wood
In and around L.A. this week: Miguel, Shoreline Jam, Buskerfest, Burger a-Go-Go 2, Nocturnal Wonderland, West Adams Fiesta, Passion of the Weiss Festival, Elliot Sumner,On An On, Hey Marseilles, Pink Martini,KT Tunstall, Rebirth Brass Band, Tijuana Panthers, Cults, Dam-Funk, Rita Coolidge and more.
Cat Power and the Julie Ruin will be joined by the likes of Kim Gordon & Alex Knost (dba Glitterbust), Kate Nash, Kimya Dawson and Cherry Glazerr at Burger A-Go-Go 2 on Saturday, Sept. 5 at the Observatory. The annual Burger Records bash begins the night before with a pre-party featuring Cults and Bleached. General […]
Rains washed out the ski competition at Sunday’s second day of the Air + Style Festival at the Rose Bowl, and the weather thinned the crowd too, but the bands were troupers, slogging through their sets to the soggy masses. Umbrellas, anyone? ||| Photos by Zane Roessell One thing for certain: Neither precipitation nor technical […]
The Twilight Concert Series returned to the Santa Monica Pier in a big way Thursday night, with indie-pop ensemble Cults and indie-rockers James Supercave thrilling a huge crowd on an idyllic night at the beach. It was something of a homecoming show for singer Madeline Follin of New York-based Cults (she grew up in Orange […]
Free concerts, record-release parties, music legends … a thriller of a Thursday: ‣ The Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier kicks off with indie acts Cults and James Supercave. Free and all-ages, the festivities start at 7 p.m. Above, Cults’ video for “High Road.” ‣ Legendary singer-guitarist Richard Thompson visits Levitt Pavilion MacArthur […]
Australia’s Jagwar Ma, psych-pop veterans the Zombies, L.A. Latin sensations La Santa Cecilia and soul man Charles Bradley will highlight this year’s Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier. The free concerts, part of the KCRW Summer Nights Series, run for 10 Thursday nights from July 10 to Sept. 11. And, speaking of the […]
On the first official day of winter … ‣ It’s Stevie Wonder’s 18th Annual House Full of Toys Benefit at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live. ‣ Long-running L.A. rockers the Muffs headline the Satellite, supported by Peach Kelli Pop and Honeychain. ‣ We Are Scientists, joined by Hands play a free show Universal CityWalk. That’s […]
