Your slate of free outdoors summertime concerts just got more crowded. The Belle Brigade will kick off the 17th annual Sunset Concert Series at the Skirball Center on Thursday, July 25. The L.A. trio of siblings Ethan and Barbara Gruska and Keith Karman, working on a follow-up to their 2011 debut, will play the first […]
PAPA’s hometown blowout on Thursday night at the Troubadour came off as a little … well, loose – especially if you’d seen them this spring at South by Southwest, where they hit every note as if they were playing for lunch money. The perils of performing to a sold-out crowd of friends and family? Perhaps. […]
Something about the letter “H” today: ‣ Hot As Sun’s debut album “Night Time Sound Desire” is out this week on Last Gang Records, and tonight the band [pictured] hosts the second of its “Sweaty Disco” nights” at Los Globos, syupported by TV Girl and Mirror Talk. ‣ Hunter Hunted wraps up its residency at […]
Fresh off the plane from Austin and already plotting tonight’s adventures: ‣Â The Thermals, fresh off torching Austin in seven shows at SXSW, head up the Check Yo Ponytail 2 night at the Echoplex. The Portland trio, whose sixth album “Desperate Ground” comes out April 16, will be supported by Joyce Manor, Dunes and Death Hymn […]
Your Monday show options: ‣ MØ – aka Danish electro-soul singer Karen Marie Ørsted – is featured in the lineup at It’s a School Night at Bardot, along with Austin Brown, Hamburg duo BOY and Mikhael Paskalev. That’s MØ’s video for “Glass,” above. ‣ Hunter Hunted vault into Week 2 of their residency at the […]
First Monday of March: ‣ Harper Simon is doing the free Mondays in March at the Satellite, and to get things off on the right foot the support lineup on this opening night features Jenny O., the Living Sisters and Stephen Sowan. ‣ Sudan-born, New York-based Sinkane brings his wild funk to the RSVP-only It’s […]
[iframe width=”450″ height=”253″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/PilVAqMMSnc” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>[/iframe] Incoming: Sinkane, Alpine, Harriet, Hunter Hunted, Harper Simon, Marcus Foster, Spain, Maserati, Amanda Palmer, Frank Turner, the View, Black Label Society, Youngblood Hawke, the James Hunter Six, Lavender Diamond, Laidback Luke, Swedish House Mafia, Moe, Johnny Gill, Darwin Deez, Matt & Kim, Flogging Molly, Efterklang, the Men, Buckcherry, Pennywise, […]
It’ll be next year before fans hear a follow-up to Harriet’s “Tell the Right Story” EP, but to bridge the gap the Los Angeles quartet has a new digital single that displays at least some of the drama in songwriter Alex Casnoff’s first offering. “No Way Out” is about a near-death experience that Casnoff had […]
Monday holiday offerings: ‣ L.A. quartet Voxhaul Broadcast (pictured), hard at work on new music following up last year’s album “Timing Is Everything,” heads up a big local lineup at the Viper Room. Also on board: Wildcat! Wildcat!, LA Font and the Mowgli’s. ‣ May’s free residencies take a bow in fine fashion: Baron Von […]
For the third Monday in May: ‣ Resurgent U.K. pop singer Daniel Bedingfield (remember “Gotta Get Thru This” from 2002?), on the heels of his first release since 2004, plays the Hotel Cafe tonight as part of the SuperSoul Mondays 3-Year Anniversary Party, along with Jason Joseph & the Spectacular and more. Bedingfield’s new EP […]
