This Week’s Shows: Feb. 15-21
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Incoming: Air + Style Festival, Wild Wild Horses, She Wants Revenge, Deep Sea Diver, Cass McCombs, Miranda Lee Richards, Avid Dancer, Joe Purdy, Dr. Dog, KING, Film School, Seth Bogart, Barcelona.
Incoming: Air + Style Festival, Wild Wild Horses, She Wants Revenge, Deep Sea Diver, Cass McCombs, Miranda Lee Richards, Avid Dancer, Joe Purdy, Dr. Dog, KING, Film School, Seth Bogart, Barcelona.
Also: Eagles of Death Metal, EFG, Nick Jonas, Natalie Prass, Cotton Jones, Emily Wells, Maxim Ludwig, Nobunny, Royal Tongues, Breakfast, LANY
Including: Beach Goth 4, Marina & the Diamonds, Dave Gahan & Soulsavers, Eagles of Death Metal, Blur, Mudhoney, Marilyn Manson, the Airborne Toxic Event, Frank Turner, Slash, The Weekend and more.
Incoming: Warped Tour, Ed Sheeran, Alex & Sierra, Blackwater Jukebox, Garate, Seven Saturdays, Bernhoft, Metronomy, the Mountain Goats, Crash Kings, Atomic Ape, Emily Wells, Fyfe Dangerfield & Aristazabal Hawkes, Them Howling Bones, Bad Suns, Clean Bandit, Kaya, Cowboy Junkies, Failure, Gavin DeGraw, Rodigro Amarante, Sabrina Antoinette, Chad VanGaalen, Adrian Sherwood, Sam Outlaw, Victoria Reed, Bones […]
A incredible slate of shows for your Thursday: ‣ BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter Beth Orton visits the Troubadour behind her new album “Sugaring Season,” her first release in six-plus years. James Bay opens. That’s the video for the new Orton song “Magpie,” above. ‣ Fresh off winning a Tony Award. and on the heels of last […]
Incoming: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bjork, the 88, Radar Bros., Parson Red Heads, Snowden, Caifanes, Tijuana No, Beth Orton, Fall Out Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Alkaline Trio, Emily Wells, Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Barry Manilow, the Dandy Warhols, CSS, Cold Cave, Ozma, Nightmare & the Cat, Robert DeLong, Robert Earl Keen, the Bats, Peter […]
Tuesday night in the city: ‣ Singer, multi-instrumentalist and looping wizard Emily Wells visits Largo behind her new album “Mama,” which was recorded on a horse ranch in Topanga. That’s her homemade video for “Passenger,” above. Appearing with her: The Portland Cello Project, whose own new album “Homage” features arrangements of hip-hop songs. No kidding: […]
Saturday night’s all right … ‣ The Section Quartet, the string-wielding foursome known for their covers of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Tool and more, perform at 9 p.m. at the grand opening of yet-another new vinyl record store, High Fidelity (1956 Hillhurst Ave., Los Feliz). Buzz Bands LA will be on hand to select tunes […]
[Happy 09-09-09. It’s International Beatles Day, as well as the Eurhythmic Dave Stewart’s birthday. Somewhere in there should be a big celebration ….] It’s a huge week for L.A. electro-noise quartet HEALTH, who released their new album “Get Color” (Lovepump United) and played opening slots on the Nine Inch Nails farewell tour. Tonight the foursome […]
Had the Trashcan Sinatras emerged in the middle of this decade instead of the mid-’80s, I suspect they’d be festival-playing, Pitchfork-approved indie-pop heroes. As it is, the Scottish sextet has had an up-and-down ride – three brilliant albums in the ’90s (and some MTV buzz) followed by record-label woes that caused the band to declare […]