Incoming: Make Music Pasadena, Delta Spirit, Northern American, Aurora, Hunny, Tennis System, the Crash Kings, Girlpool, Jack Garratt, Dawes, the Kids in the Hall, Walk off the Earth, Embrace, Starsailor, Robert Plant, Mother Mother, Songhoy Blues, Badflower, Meiko, Nedelle Torrisi, Leikeli47, Ron Sexsmith, U2, Sufjan Stevens, Todd Rundgren, Zella Day, Andy Grammer, No Age, the […]
A smitten, Valentine’s Day-eve crowd adorned with merch beanies, plaid shirts and youthful beards greeted Dr. Dog on Friday night at the Wiltern, with the indie-rockers from the City of Brotherly Love giving their cult followers a show worthy of a candlelit dinner out, and then some. Touring in support of the recent live album […]
Hanni El Khatib’s new album “Moonlight” furthers his rep as a rough-and-tumble rocker; it’s a perfectly imperfect collection of garage-blues that works up a heavy sweat yet doesn’t draw blood and inflicts some pain but no mortal wounds. “Knife-fighting music,” he called his work when his debut “Will the Guns Come Out” came out in […]
Shows on a full-up Friday night: â–º The Budos Band visits the Regent Theater behind their latest album “Burnt Offering,” with Death Valley Girls supporting. â–º Stooges guitarist James Williamson (with guests Alison Mosshart, Jello Biafra, Lisa Kekaula, Joe Cardamone and more) plays songs from his solo album “Re-Licked,” a collection of re-imagined rarities he […]
Incoming: Ivy Levan, Sego, Holychild, Wildling, the Fontaines, Josh Kelley, the Janks, California X, Evolove, Ivory Deville, the Temporary Thing, Run the Jewels, the Wood Brothers, French Exit, Misty Boyce, Jonny Craig, Eric McFadden, Leela James, Parade of Lights, the New Deal, Brian Lopez, Chain & the Gang, Flaamingos, the Budos Band, James Williamson, Vaud […]
Incoming: Alt-J, Pentatonix, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Metronomy, White Denim, Banks, Dry the River, Hanni El Khatib, Olin & the Moon, Hobart W Fink, TV on the Radio, Nas, Eastern Conference Champions, Fever the Ghost, the Acid, Matt Ellis, the Brave Ones, Ceci Bastida, Matisyahu, Jessie Ware, the Melvins, Le Butcherettes, Kimbra, Sloan, Tom Vek, Movement, Colin […]
Hanni El Khatib is all about moving on. This week the L.A.-based musician/graphic artist/skateboarder unveiled the title track to his third album, “Moonlight,” which is a departure from his savage 2013 album “Head in the Dirt,” which was a departure from his 2011 debut “Will the Guns Come Out.” In announcing the new record – which […]
Oh what fun on a Friday: ‣ Nineteen-year-old singer-songwriter Jake Bugg visits the Wiltern; the U.K. youngster’s second album, the Rick Rubin-produced “Shangri La,” came out in November. That’s the new video for “A Song About Love,” above. ‣ The fourth of the five Eagles‘ shows goes off at the Forum. ‣ Resurgent indie-rock sextet […]
Preface: More than 200 Los Angeles-sired albums landed on Buzz Bands LA’s doorstep this year, and they came in all sounds and styles. There is something to recommend in a startling number of them. But to avert writing the same introduction I did last year, I will simply say, in dispensing with the notion of […]
It was a massive night for L.A.-based Innovative Leisure Records on Friday at the El Rey Theatre. It was also a huge night for sweat. Three of IL’s artists (that’s about 20 percent of the roster) brought their blood-pounding rock to the El Rey, headed up by Hanni El Khatib, touring behind the sophomore album, […]
