‣ Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ Big Top continues with two show today. The family matinee features Dance Cartel, Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang, the Giving Tree and more at Los Angeles State Historic Park. The evening show features Edward Sharpe, Aaron Embry, Las Cafeteras and more. ‣ Brian Wilson takes charge at the Greek Theatre […]
Tonight in L.A.: Palma Violets, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Festival Supreme, Paramore, Leon Russell, Moonchild, Kaskade, Jack Johnson, the Growlers, Brandon & Leah, Pepper, the Fling
Wow, what a Saturday: ‣ U.K. quartet Palma Violets [whom we’ve pretty much stalked all year] visit the El Rey Theatre behind their debut album “180.” NYC garage-rockers Skaters open. Above, Palma Violets’ new video for “Rattlesnake Highway.” ‣ It’s the third night of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ Big Top at Los Angeles […]
Cassorla has graduated to music videos that aren’t made entirely in Microsoft Paint, but the songs remain stellar and clever. Those signature guitar effects have stayed in tact for Cassorla’s new single “I Am,” but he’s also recruited Christopher “Crash” Richard (ex-the deadly Syndrome and now of of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros) for […]
Tonight in L.A.: Placebo, Sleigh Bells, Walk the Moon, Lionel Richie, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Tim Kasher, Light FM, Haim, MS MR, Disclosure, GWAR, Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Your fab Friday night: ‣ U.K. rockers Placebo play the Wiltern behind “Loud Like Love,” its first album in four years. The Bret Easton Ellis-narrated video for “Too Many Friends,” above, will test your powers of observation. ‣ Noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells, whose third album “Bitter Rivals” came out this month, visits the El Rey […]
A jam-packed Thursday of shows: ‣ And now for something completely different … well, pretty different, anyway: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ Big Top starts its four-day run in at Los Angeles State Historic Park, with music, performance art, comedy, circus-type performers a farmer’s market and more. The L.A. folk-rockers will perform in the […]
Incoming: Frank Turner, Wavves, the Dodos, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, Sleigh Bells, Simple Minds, Free the Robots, Disclosure, Atoms for Peace, Haim, Clannad, Langhorne Slim, Reuben & the Dark, Devildriver, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, City & Colour, Kaskade, Little Dragon, MS MR, Braids, Hindu Pirates, Adult, Typhoon, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Gwar, Tim Kasher, […]
It was a strange confluence of events: On Tuesday, L.A. quartet PAPA released its ballyhooed debut album “Tender Madness” to some (well-deserved) fanfare. That same day – via the same label, Loma Vista – brought the release of the debut EP by the singer-songwriter who playfully modeled for the cover of PAPA’s first release, “A […]
‣ HARD Summer Festival continues over at the Los Angeles State Historic Park with Justice (DJ set), Empire of the Sun [that’s their video for “Alive” above], Flosstradamus, Azealia Banks, Crystal Castles, Bassnectar, Dillon Francis, Baauer, Claude Vonstroke, Busy P and many more. ‣ Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros headlines the Hollywood Bowl where […]
Incoming: System of a Down, Sunset Strip Music Festival, HARD Summer, Writer, Bad Rabbits, Sebadoh, Franz Ferdinand, We the Kings, Dr. John, Joan Jett, Xavier Rudd, Son Volt, Shye Ben-Tzur, El-P, the Decoders, Ours, Casey Veggies, the Sword, ZZ Top, Tony Bennett, the Presets, Kitten, the Icarus Line, Daughn Gibson, Blackalicious, José James, Ozomatli, Scott […]
The third day at the 2013 Sasquatch! Music Festival got a little wild and woolly – and wonderful too, thanks to Elvis Costello’s value-added but under-attended set that included a cameo from Wild Belle. (There was also an impromptu cover of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” backstage, courtesy of Costello and Mumford and Sons, but […]
