The most startling revelation about Thursday night’s show at the Autry Museum was how apparently few of the hip kids know where the Autry Museum is. For the record, the house that “The Singing Cowboy” built is right across the parking lot from the L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park. And although none of the bands […]
‣ Rockin’ with the fossils is one of our favorite L.A. rituals – at least the way that it’s done at the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays series. The festivities, which included honest-to-goodness intellectual activities followed by music (two live bands in the Diorama Hall, two DJs in the African Mammal Hall), kick off Jan. […]
[Happy birthday to our favorite actress-who-played-a-rocker, Gina Gershon.] Top 5 reasons to patronize your friendly neighborhood music venue tonight: ‣ The Rumble is a cool monthly event [co-presented by this very blog] that brings three bands to the cozy confines of 3 Clubs for a free show. Tonight’s bill is stacked with three SoCal bands […]
[Fabrizio Moretti hits the big three-oh today. Drinks at the Little Joy?] Top 5 ways to get through your humpday: ‣ Born-again indie band Hot Hot Heat (that’s the video for “21@12,” above) kicks off its residency at the Bootleg Theater, with up-and-coming pop fanatics Chasing Kings and swoonworthy Stone Darling opening. ‣ School of […]
Florida quartet Surfer Blood, coming off a strong week of shows at SXSW and still riding the buzz they earned with their 2009 album “Astro Coast,” has top billing in Saturday’s Waved Out Music Fest, being presented by Aquarium Drunkard at the Echo and Echoplex. Depending on your tastes, you can go festival-crazy this weekend […]
The first recordings from L.A.’s Gamble House could wear their Grizzly Bear comparisons like a stain, but the architect of the music, Ben Becker, prefers to think of them as a beauty mark. “I can’t say I dislike it, because I have a huge admiration for what Grizzly Bear does,” Becker says. “But …” Gamble […]
[Once around the residencies as I try to decide how I feel about the new Angels & Airwaves album, “LOVE,” which I downloaded free last night [background] …] Princeton, fresh off a Thursday show opening for Editors, return to the cozier confines of Spaceland, supported by Le Switch, among others. … Aushua and We Barbarians […]
This month’s heaping helping of appetizing residencies continues: At the Echo, where Useless Keys headline and Light FM supports, there’s a set from band called L.E.F. – which features members of the late Viva K, a quartet that had a good thing going about four years ago (an album on Stinky Records, some love from […]
[Happy Grammy hangover, everyone. And happy February, already – the first night of this month’s residencies offers so much tasty music I don’t know where to turn …] First, your residency rundown: Useless Keys, whose new music we debuted in November, kick off their Echo stand behind their new EP “Is the Painting Changing?” with […]
[Happy birthday to Lee Majors – the Six Million Dollar Man turns 70 today, and if you think there’s no musical connection you’ve obvously never heard his 1981 tune “The Unknown Stuntman.”] In an earlier version of this post, I had Edward Sharpe playing at the Regent Theater. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. that residency […]
