[No tantrums today – it’s Fitz’s birthday. Cheers to Michael Fitzpatrick on the eve of his band’s big homecoming show at the Music Box:] Tonight’s flurry of activity: ‣ This week’s installment of the free Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum will sizzle with a little joie de pop – headlining […]
Your pre-Carmageddon options: ‣ Talk to the animals? How about singing to them? Hands (pictured) and Abe Vigoda head up an eight-band lineup tonight for Music in the Zoo: Local Scene Night at the L.A. Zoo. The show is something of an open house-meets-picnic at the zoo, with the evening featuring two bands apiece on […]
Singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart will play two intimate Los Angeles shows this month – including one in the tasting room of a wine store in Atwater Village. The shows, presented by the Fold, will be announced later tonight. Banhart, whose last album “What Will We Be” was released in 2009, will play Friday night at 55 […]
Top shows to consider while setting aside time this morning for Warpaint’s appearance on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic: ‣ Literature and music collide at a charity event at the Bootleg Theater – Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro will perform, and author Mark Z. Danielewski will read from his 2006 novel “Only Revolutions,” which inspired the trio’s […]
Devendra Banhart hits L.A. for his first proper show since the release last fall of his first major-label album, “What Will We Be.” As Devendra Banhart and the Grogs, he’s touring with the same group of musicians who made the album – guitarists Noah Georgeson and Rodrigo Aramante, bassist Lucky Remington and drummer Greg Rogove. […]
Story and photo gallery by Laurie Scavo Devendra Banhart was not the star of the show Saturday night at Space 15 Twenty – no matter how much his fans wanted him to be. He was merely the subject of a book. Maybe that explained the brevity of the singer-songwriter’s set in front of an overflow […]
[Some of the lots and lots of things that have come to my attention …] Coming soon to the Beck.com website will be a section called Record Club – which will feature mp3s of songs from studio sessions during which Beck and his pals will re-record an entire album in a single day, sans rehearsal. […]