Futuristic music, meet fossils. The second First Fridays event of 2014 at the Natural History Museum offered an interesting juxtaposition – music from two forward-thinking electronic acts in a setting devoted to history, some of which is millions of years old. It wasn’t so unnatural, with Will Wiesenfeld’s Baths dispensing their melancholy compositions after a […]
Youngblood Hawke proved the perfect party mammals to kick off 2014’s First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum, but the band’s feel-good dance-rock was upstaged by an explosive, theatrical outing from L.A. newbie Conway. Fronting a four-piece, singer Kassia Conway took the stage wearing a mask and a leopard body suit, with her band […]
Pop quintet Youngblood Hawke and electronic explorer Baths will headline the first two nights of the popular First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum. Youngblood Hawke [top], which last April released its debut album “Wake Up,” kicks off the series on Jan. 10 (which is actually the second Friday, ostensibly to give concert-goers a […]
The theme for this year’s First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum is “This Time It’s Personal,” and that concept could hardly have been better realized in music than by A.A. Bondy and Father John Misty. As he has in other recent stops in L.A. behind his latest album “Believers,” Bondy on Friday night […]
Nika Danilova, the Wisconsin-bred, L.A.-based songstress who does business as Zola Jesus, has nothing if not a sense of place. “Thanks for coming to this beautiful venue,” she told the crowd Friday night in the North American Hall of Mammals at the Natural History Museum, “that makes us appreciate where we came from, and probably […]
Of all the successes big and small enjoyed by Los Angeles bands in 2011, none was improbable as Mariachi El Bronx, the side project-turned-focal point of hardcore punk quintet the Bronx. Born on a lark in 2007 when Fuel TV (R.I.P.) asked the punk Bronx to perform acoustically (oh, the ignominy), Mariachi El Bronx have […]
A roaming dinosaur, roving packs of hipsters, Gayngs of musicians, a gang of one – the year’s final installment of First Fridays at the Natural History Museum had a bit of everything. The January-through-June series closed out with a headlining set of pastoral indie-rock from the collective known as Gayngs, an opening burst from solo […]
Ceci Bastida and the Fresh & Onlys rock the monthly First Fridays show at the Natural History Museum tonight, and courtesy of Pop-Aut, you can watch it here. The webcast begins about 8 p.m.
Wild Nothing and Abe Vigoda closed out their national tour last week by playing the year’s third installment of the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays series, and there was dancing involved. If the out-and-out giddiness of Wild Nothing’s headlining set surprised some fans of Jack Tatum’s fuzzy dream-pop, it didn’t others, especially female fans who […]
Wild Nothing and Abe Vigoda rock the sold-out First Fridays show at the Natural History Museum tonight, and courtesy of Pop-Aut, you can watch it here. The webcast begins about 8 p.m.
