Top 5 embarrassments of musical riches on a Monday: ‣ The title of the new album by the Greenhornes’ is “★★★★.” That’s moxie. the Cincinnati garage rockers, fronted by Craig Fox and including Jack Lawrence (Dead Weather, Raconteurs) and Patrick Keeler (Raconteurs), hit the Troubadour tonight. ‣ The killer residency lined up by IAMSOUND Records […]
[Happy 40th to Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd. Now keep the beat while I run through tonight’s exhausting list of shows:] Give the Church credit – most bands who are still going concerns at the end of their third decade are just playing greatest-hits sets. The Australian quartet, touring behind a new album, “Untitled #23,” […]
[So flipping radio stations on the way home last night I heard Van Halen’s “Jump” for the trillionth time and thought, ‘How old is that song, anyway?’ Turns out that 25 years ago this week, it was No. 1.] I wanted to find out which of the estimable performers at tonight’s “A Tribute to Scott […]
[Happy birthday to Mike Patton — who’s apparently performing at Coachella in April not with Faith No More but with beatboxer Rahzel. … No Coachella lineup announcement this morning, by the way. Stay tuned.] Big goings-on at the Echo, where the Voyeurs and Go West Young Man celebrate their album releases, and the Echoplex, where […]
The South by Southwest Music Festival has announced a partial list of bands scheduled to perform at this year’s shindig (March 18-22). From L.A.’s neck of the woods: the Crystal Method, Dave Alvin, Franki Chan, LA Riots, Mandi Perkins, Mika Miko, Waz and Port O’Brien. … Meanwhile, there’s a bunch of interesting tours shaping up […]
