It’s a monster weekend ahead – and not just for Hanni El Khatib, who does the Abbot-Kinney Festival en route to his album release show for “Will the Guns Come Out” (Monday night at the Echo). On Saturday, there’s free music at the Frogtown Art Walk, as well as a beer-sponsored event called “Walk the […]
The Soft Pack and Hanni El Khatib accentuated the rock in the Also I Like to Rock series on Thursday night, delivering scorched-earth performances to a big crowd in the Hammer Museum courtyard. The Soft Pack previewed a handful of new songs the L.A. quartet has in the works for a new album, and Hanni […]
Three fantastic free shows, and other fabulous ones: ‣ The first week of this year’s Also I Like to Rock at the Hammer Museum was a smash hit – and tonight’s second installment of the four-week series promises to be every bit as rockin’. The Soft Pack (pictured), who are working on a follow-up to […]
Graffiti6 and Eastern Conference Champions kicked off the seventh annual Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum on Thursday night in raucous fashion. Playing to a capacity crowd in the museum’s courtyard, ECC unleashed 45 minutes of melodic, fuzz-drenched indie rock to start the night before the U.K.’s Graffiti6, with singer Jamie […]
If it’s July, it must be time for the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum. The free shows, with two bands performing per night (along with KCRW-FM DJs), go off every Thursday of the month, starting July 7 with Graffiti6 and Eastern Conference Champions. We figured you’d like to hear what’s […]
Cozy shows, crazy shows – we’ll start small and work our way big: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe features Luz Elena (pictured), Chris Accardo and Mark Lane. Luz Elena is the frontwoman of the Portland indie-folk Y La Bamba, and she’s in town working on material for a solo […]
[Happy birthday today to Rivers Cuomo … Here’s some June un-gloom:] Top stops on a Monday: ‣ Brendan Perry’s “Ark,” his first solo album in 11 years, is just out, and the ex-Dead Can Dance frontman (pictured) visits the El Rey Theatre supported by Cocteau Twins co-founder turned film composer Robin Guthrie. ‣ Florence + […]
Appearances by rising U.K. sensations Graffiti6 and southern California standouts the Soft Pack, Grouplove and the Henry Clay People highlight this year’s seventh installment of the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum. The free shows in the museum’s courtyard – held at 7 p.m. every Thursday in July – also feature […]
Nothing moribund about this Monday: ‣ Hanni El Khatib opens the second week of the Rumspringa residency at the Bootleg Theater, which also features Moses Campbell. ‣ Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits supports at this week’s Walking Sleep residency at the Satellite. ‣ Leslie Stevens (of the Badgers’ fame) plays ahead of resident Amanda Jo Williams at […]
[Just in time for the beginning of baseball season – and the arrival of the Baseball Project – your humble blogger returns from some time in a distant land, away from the noise. That one mixtape I made for driving through the Midwest was pretty killer, though …] Already, my most difficult show-going decision of […]
