Redondo Beach’s BeachLife Festival returns for a second year May 1-3 with a lineup topped by the Steve Miller Band, Counting Crows, Ziggy & Stephen Marley, Ben Harper, Fitz & the Tantrums, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Grace VanderWaal, Lukas Nelson and more.
Young the Giant and Fitz & the Tantrums — each of whom cut their teeth in Southern California and released their debut albums in 2010 — turned Saturday night at the Forum into a pop spectacle.
Also on Saturday: Y La Bamba, Alice Bag, Lights, Beach Bums, Michael Seyer, Louden Swain, Midnight Divide, Chinatown Summer Nights, REO Speedwagon, Bush, Fat Beats 25th Anniversary, Weird Al Yankovic, Pixx, the Warlocks, NK Riot
You clapped your hands to “HandClap.” Now Fitz & the Tantrums encourage you to count it out on their new single, “123456.”
Both enthusiasm and the temperature were high for Sunday’s second day of Arroyo Seco Weekend, capped by Mumford & Sons (and stolen by the Shins).
The inaugural Arroyo Seco Weekend in Pasadena brings the likes of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Alabama Shakes, Mumford & Sons, Weezer, Dawes and the Shins to Pasadena on June 24 and 25.
Also on Monday: Horse Thief, Fitz & the Tantrums, ExSage, Rodney & John, Carah Faye, Cosmonauts, KAV/Brian Whelan, Naomi, the May Company, Dig the Kid, the Shakes
Incoming: Glass Animals, Fitz & the Tantrums, the Shelters, Incan Abraham, Jonathan Richman, the Sounds, Eagles of Death Metal, Yasiin Bey, the Afghan Whigs, Rooney, Metallica, Weyes Blood, the Dandy Warhols, Dios, James Supercave, TV on the Radio
Fitz & the Tantrums’ crowd-pleasing set Friday at the Greek Theatre included a heaping helping of songs from their third album, a self-titled affair released this summer.
Also on Friday: Fitz & the Tantrums, Smokey Robinson, The 1975, Kygo, Honne, the Julie Ruin, Griz, Jon McLaughlin, Stormzy, VNV Nation, Clutch, Foxtrax, RJD2, Tobacco, Mothxr
