England-bred folkies Charley and Hattie Webb – the Webb Sisters – are headlining tonight when the Hotel Cafe reopens after its holiday hiatus. The sisters are also supporting Rufus Wainwright at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach on Saturday. … The Viper Room’s “10 Days of 2010” continues with Casxio and Funeral Party offering the […]
In their early days, the 88 used to get compared a lot to the Kinks. Now, as they showed on last year’s “Not Only … But Also,” they’ve come into their own, and three albums into their career they can flex their musical muscles any which way. Tonight at the Key Club, the L.A. outfit […]
[We salute Iggy Pop on his birthday, and then consider these options …] Electro-funk crazy man James Pants [pictured] represents for the Stones Throw crew at the Echoplex, while upstairs at the Echo, the War on Drugs hold forth. … The Whip was confounded by laptop problems during its set Monday night at Spaceland (even […]
[I’m in Austin for SXSW, trying to find either a St. Patrick’s Day fest or Billy Corgan’s birthday party, but perhaps you’re in L.A. and want to rock …] I’m not sure they could have paired two bands with more appropriate names: And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead plays the Echoplex […]
Not too long ago, Funeral Party was playing backyard parties in East L.A. Hundreds of kids came; there was cowbell galore; people danced; and life was good. As the group cultivated an underground following and took its act into clubs, they seemed to be inheritors to the Moving Units’ edgy dance-punk throne. Now they are […]
