[Notebook entries, once sentence apiece …] Wolfmother [visit the site to sign up for the download of the new single “Back Round”] sure was great a couple Fridays ago in the Natural History Museum’s Mammals Hall (imagine that), but I was surprised that the set started and ran so late, since the museum’s First Fridays […]
[New from a couple of Los Angeles bands:] You know how hard it is to get decent tones out of your cymbals under water? Leave it to the guys in the Bronx to figure it out. Just watch out for the stage-diving shark. (Shot in a friend’s pool in the U.K., this is the video […]
[I’m still woefully in arrears on album reviews, so I’m setting a modest goal of one per day for the near future – there are some guest reviewers on the way, too.] Gliss, “Devotion Implosion” (Rykodisc/Cordless, April 7) – The L.A. trio’s sophomore effort boomerangs in and out of the shadows – occasionally those cast […]
[Once around the weekend, quickly and briefly, as we work toward Perry Farrell’s big 50th birthday on Sunday …] Tonight: Hard-touring Cold War Kids have just set off on a monthlong U.S. jaunt that brings them to the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A., with support from fellow Long Beachers Crystal Antlers. (Side note: On April […]
[If I had time to trawl all the Hollywouldya sites, I’d clue you in on all the Grammy parties you won’t see me at. As it is, read about some of them here. Meanwhile, it’ll be a busy weekend even without the award-dispensing, or the Garth Brooks birthday party …] Tonight: What a night to […]
Oliver Future frontman Noah Lit tries to hide the hurt in jokes and quips – he’s good at those, too – but it’s clear he’s still wounded over the decision last year by bandmates Jordan Richardson and Jesse Ingalls to join Ben Harper’s new rock quartet, Relentless 7. “I told myself all I was gonna […]
[Blowing out birthday candles today: the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne. Now that’d be some party …] Norwegian punk songstress Ida Maria [that’s her video for “Oh My God,” above] turned more than a few heads at Spaceland on Monday night, and I heard a several people saying they were adjusting their plans to catch the […]
