Happy Valentine’s Day: ► Sparks and a 38-piece orchestra performs the 1974 album “Kimono My House” among other songs from their 23-album repertoire at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. â–º The Growlers headline the Hollywood Palladium in support of their latest album “Chinese Fountain.” That’s the Growler’s video for “Good Advice” above. â–º PAPA headlines the […]
Forecasting the future, especially at an arbitrary juncture such as year’s end, is a fool’s game. As we learned from our “Bands to Watch 2014,” the timelines for artists’ releases, as well as their creative processes, are frequently capricious. Some things take time. Other things happen overnight. There’s probably some already-signed artist woodshedding right now […]
The Abbot Kinney Festival celebrates 30 years on Sunday, Sept. 28, with entertainment on five stages – including music from the likes of Tom Freund, Adrian Younge’s Venice Dawn, the Tyde, Bart Davenport, Aaron Embry and Harriet – along with art, vendors, food trucks and children’s activities. DJs from the Dublab, Hit City USA and Guns […]
You don’t dream dances like this – or if you do, they’re called nightmares. Director Ethan Berger tackles the intense piano pop of Harriet in the video for the new single “Ten Steps.” The song follows up the single “Burbank” and is the latest from the quartet fronted by singer/multi-instrumentalist Alex Casnoff. Harriet’s main man reports […]
The first thing you should know about the recent exploits of Harriet is that the L.A. quartet’s debut album will be titled “It’s Totally Cool, I Wouldn’t Even Worry About It,” which, as album titles go, is totally cool. Frontman Alex Casnoff says the album will be out “the second quarter of this year,” or […]
Your slew of Saturday shows:Â ‣Â The Eagles return to the Forum to play their third of four shows at the venue. ‣Â Volcano Choir [pictured], the collaboration between Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Collections of Colonies of Bees, headlines the Fonda Theatre in support of their sophomore album “Repave.” Minneapolis’Â The Cloak Ox open. ‣Â Gungor, led by […]
Incoming: Eagles, the Crystal Method, John Newman, DWNTWN, Vanaprasta, Criminal Hygiene, James Supercave, Froth, Ominiflux, 3 Doors Down, Janelle Monae, Johnny Rivers, Wild Ones, Falling in Reverse, X, Colin Meloy, Nightmare & the Cat, Bonfire Beach, Connan Mockasin, Unwritten Law, Pepper, Dengue Fever, Maria Taylor, Parquet Courts, Superhumanoids, Pinback, Buckcherry, Harriet Above:Â That’s the video […]
Happy Labor Day:Â ‣ There are BBQs and then there are shindigs like the Summer Send-Off at the Bootleg Theater featuring performance by the Decoders, Mystery Skulls, Harriet, Moses Sumney, Francisco the Man, Froth, the Cerny Brothers, Grizfolk, Robert Raimon Roy, Kera & the Lesbians, Bad Suns, Moonchild, Trevor Menear, Yonas Michael, Channel One, Douglas […]
Road trip, anyone? Titus Andronicus, Milo Greene, Wild Nothing, Ra Ra Riot, the Features, Caveman and Pictureplane are among the featured performers in conjunction with the sixth annual San Diego Music Thing, a mini-South by Southwest-styled music conference held in the North Park district of San Diego. The festival runs Sept. 13-14, with New Politics […]
There were “Secrets and Truth” and a whole lot more on Friday night at the Skirball Cultural Center in one of the most ambitious intersections of music, art and performance art we have witnessed at a museum. Two rising bands on the L.A. indie-rock scene, Hunter Hunted and Harriet, provided the tunes, exhilarating at times, […]
