[With the new releases coming fast and furious in 2013, we’ve compiled six fresh tracks from notable artists here. Have at it:] Hanni El Khatib, “Penny” – Expanding from a two-piece to four and expanding his sound palette too, Hanni El Khatib will release his second album, the Dan Auerbach-produced “Head in the Dirt” on […]
No sooner had we swooned over Hanni El Khatib’s new single “Family” than the video for the song was released. The work of photographer/videographer Nick Walker, who has extensively documented El Khatib’s young career (as well as the Railroad Revival Tour), the video is a conceptually bonkers romp that Walker files under “Wild Asian Motorcycle […]
If Hanni El Khatib fans were happy to hear a preview of new track “Can’t Win ‘Em All” during the Super Bowl, they’re most likely deliriously giddy about the first official single off of “Head in the Dirt.” Picking right up from his California skate rat days, Khatib – who proved the guns did, indeed, […]
The Saturday night before Halloween just got busier – at it figured to, anyway. Z-Trip has been announced as headliner for KCRW’s annual Masquerade Halloween costume ball and dance party at the Park Plaza. Also on board: Hanni El Khatib, Mexican Institute Of Sound and Dustbowl Revival, along with KCRW’s DJs, Lucent Dossier circus performers […]
We’re all over the map this Thursday: ‣ Jesca Hoop, who earned raves for her show earlier this week at Largo, continues her West Coast tour behind her new album “The House That Jack Built.” She’s touring with Grammy winner Jesse Harris, whose own new album “Sub Rosa” came out last month. Tonight they play […]
Incoming: Green Day, Aerosmith, Black Lips, Seal, Redd Kross, Bear in Heaven, Husky, Pitbull, Nicki Minaj, Hanni El Khatib, the Kills, Langhorne Slim, Jack White, Norah Jones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Childish Gambino, John Doe, White Denim, Sigurb Ros, Andrew Bird, Tennis and more. Above: The Hype Williams-directed video for Jack White’s “Freedom at 21.” […]
The calendar for free summertime concert series is rapidly filling, but there is one longtime favorite that will be conspicuously absent this year: the Also I Like to Rock shows at the Hammer Museum. Also I Like to Rock had a seven-year run of bringing live music to the Hammer courtyard every Thursday in July. […]
A very happy Friday: ‣ Garbage has a pair of sold-out shows on the horizon at the El Rey Theatre, but the resurgent quartet, with their comeback album “Not Your Kind of People” due May 15, do something of a warm-up show at 10 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater. Then, in the adjacent Bootleg Bar, […]
@KRBronson on Thursday at SXSW (also see: Jesus and Mary Chain review): Arms makes indie-rock for people who like indie-rock, with sharp guitar and bass lines, sharper lyrics and arresting shifts in tempo and mood that toggle adeptly between nice and gnarly. Mastermind Todd Goldstein once played in Harlem Shakes, who had their 15 minutes […]
Allah-Las sound like four guys who just clambered out of a 1968 Volkswagen van to play in front of your Saturday night campfire at the beach – revelatory if you weren’t around in 1968 but a little samey if like your garage-pop with guts and hooks. Without a doubt, though, Miles Michaud, Pedrum Siadatian, Spencer […]
