Sunday things: ‣ The annual Fool’s Gold Day Off returns to L.A. with the label’s founder A-Trak performing among other artists such as Danny Brown, Vic Mensa, Travi$ Scott, gLAdiator and Kittens at the Shrine Expo Hall. ‣ David Bazan [pictured] and Passenger String Quartet visit the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in support of their […]
Incoming: Belle & Sebastian, Lorde, Boy & Bear, Justin Townes Earle, Dave Rawlings, Mark Gardener, Carbon Leaf, Aeges, Dream Boys, Planets, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, the King Khan & BBQ Show, Angus & Julia Stone, Robert Plant, Bishop Allen, Drowners, Halfbluud, Ought, Kasabian, Sondre Lerche, Twenty One Pilots, Shonen Knife, Wartime Recitals, Rose’s Pawn […]
Here’s your Friday fun: ‣ Bloc Party rolls into the Palladium behind their latest album “Four,” with Dum Dum Girls supporting. ‣ In September, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood released the second of its two albums this year, “The Magic Door,” which followed June’s “Big Moon Ritual.” Expect some serious jamming when they hit the stage […]
Incoming: Aerosmith, Justin Bieber, Islands, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Bruce Springsteen, Sufjan Stevens, No Doubt, Carole King, ZZ Top, Flogging Molly, Monsters Calling Home, How to Dress Well, the Starvations, Shuggie Otis, Paul Banks, Tom Morello, Seven Saturdays, Streetlight Manifesto, Donnie and Marie Osmond, the Polyphonic Spree, the Lonely Wild, Bloc Party, David Bazan, Kopecky Family […]
Things you can do after your poolside parties: ‣ The follow-up to Gangi’s very good debut “A” has been a long time coming, but Matt Gangi and collaborator Eric Charamosta have some new (unmastered) songs up on Bandcamp, and they play tonight at Part Time Punks at the Echo along with Swahili Blonde and Maus […]
[Make mine a double, please: Jack White and Isaac Brock were born in this day in 19 hundred and seventy-five:] Part 1 of your weekend: ‣ This evening’s installment of Saturdays Off the 405 at the Getty features a headlining set by Best Coast, joined by DJ Kave-In. The free concert begins at 6 p.m. […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Gary Numan. Here’s what’s going on at the beginning of a very, very busy week:] Moonrats kicks off their residency at Spaceland. The L.A. indie-rockers have a song coming out as part of IAMSOUND’s “L.A. Collection” series (KCRW previewed it last week), are working on their full-length debut and […]
Sad and beautiful. Dark and lovely. Few indie-pop bands have explored that dichotomy in recent years as well as Illinois-based Headlights did on last fall’s release “Wildlife.” If you don’t have a twee streak at least as wide as the 405, you’d best move on. As for me, the quartet’s spare boy/girl pop – which […]
