Incoming: KROQ Weenie Roast, Joshua Tree Music Festival, L.A. Vegan Beer & Food Festival, the Bird and the Bee, Cillie Barnes, the Moth & the Flame, Lapsley, Golden Coast, A House for Lions, Dead Sara, Sepultura, Reggie Watts, Sick of Sarah, the Wombats, Nick Mulvey, Waka Flocka Flame, Torres, Elvis Perkins, Thrice, Froth, the Temperance […]
Before we get to the trippy video, here’s the bulletin: L.A. quintet Fool’s Gold will release their third album, “Flying Lessons,” in April (as a special Record Day Day vinyl release) and May (in other formats) via ORG Music. It’s the long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s “Leave No Trace” and, says frontman Luke Top, “is the […]
How to ring in 2015 – you know the part about staying safe, right? ‣ The second annual NYE in downtown Los Angeles brings Mr. Little Jeans [aka L.A.-based Norwegian singer Monica Birkenes, pictured], Made In Heights, Breakestra, Dorothy, Ceci Bastida, Run River North, KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad to a free celebration at Grand Park. […]
How to ring in 2015 – you know the part about staying safe, right? ‣ The second annual NYE in downtown Los Angeles’ Grand Park is doubling its capacity. This year, Mr. Little Jeans, Made In Heights, Breakestra, Dorothy, Ceci Bastida, Run River North, KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad and more join the 3D projections, food […]
Incoming: Flosstradamus, Kissing Cousins, the Sunset Drifters, the Aggrolites, Sublime With Rome, Together Pangea, Deooro, Boots Electric, Donavon Frankenreiter, Eric Prydz, Tyler the Creator, Bassrush, Fool’s Gold, the Dustbowl Revival, Helmet, Banks, Social Distortion, Blood Orange, Fitz & the Tantrums, Youngblood Hawke, Mr. Little Jeans, the Roots, Foxygen, Slow White, Dorothy, Cherry Glazerr, Trombone Shorty, […]
Sorting out a simply fantastic Friday: ‣ It’s been 20 years since “The Blue Album.” It’s been one month since “Everything Will Be Alright in the End.” Weezer explores all those time passages at downtown’s Belasco Theater. ‣ Speaking of downtown, the Regent Theater [see Thursday’s post] bows with the first day of the Downtown […]
Incoming: Camp Flog Gnaw festival, Electric Youth, Dorothy, Amason, Wartime Recitals, the Bug, the Diamond Light, Scott Weiland, Dreaming Bull, Secret Chiefs 3, GWAR, Patty Griffin, Wax Tailor, Fat White Family, Rebirth Brass Band, Mariachi El Bronx, Bleachers, Jake Bugg, Gazelle Twin, Pissed Jeans, Nickelback, Clockwise, Traps PS, Julian Casablancas, Dropkick Murphys, the Black Keys, […]
British DJ Bonobo [pictured], for many one of the highlights of last April’s Coachella, Les Sins, the Chaz Bundick (Toro Y Moi) side project that underwhelmed at August’s FYF Fest, and acclaimed indie-rocker Tom Vek head up the lineup for KCRW’s Masquerade, the station’s annual Halloween fundraiser. The event, which features circus troupes, burlesque performers, […]
“I’m in Love” is the first new music in three years from Fool’s Gold, and if you’re in love with everything that makes the Los Angeles quintet one of the most distinctive bands on the bandscape, you’ll fall for this. With singer Luke Top dispensing his finest croon, Fool’s Gold’s rhythm section of Salvador Placencia […]
Fool’s Gold brought its bright Afro-pop to the Figat7th Downtown Festival on Friday night, the fifth of six weeks of free concerts on the plaza above the downtown retail center. The L.A. quintet previewed some songs from its forthcoming third album and played favorites from its 2009 self-titled debut and 2011’s “Leave No Trace” as […]
