[Birthday shouts to Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Tim Burgess of the Charlatans …] Today: Where to start this evening’s bulging schedule except with Animal Collective? Having hit the Troubadour and the Music Box @ Fonda earlier in the year, the critical darlings now sell out the Wiltern. … The buzziest shows of the night […]
[Jane’s Addiction’s Eric Avery blows out birthday candles on Saturday; cheers to him as we rock into the weekend …] Tonight: Seems to be lighter than your average Friday, but in addition to the I Am Treasure benefit at the Roxy (featuring Pigeon John and Rootbeer), you have some other options. She Wants Revenge, paired […]
[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 […]
Somebody has deep pockets. The teenage L.A. rock band Acidic won an eBay auction to play a main-stage slot at Sunday’s second day of the Bamboozle Left Festival at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre – with a bid of more than $13,000. The money benefits the One Love for Chi Foundation, the charity that is helping Deftones […]
[On Saturday we can send out birthday wishes to Pat Benatar. But we can start rockin’ tonight …] Tonight: Gram Rabbit [pictured: Jesika von Rabbit a year ago on New Year’s Eve] take a break from working on their fourth album — they’re again working with producer Ethan Allen — to headline the Troubadour. … […]
