Incoming: The Interrupters, the Futures League, Mauldin Strangers, Smoke Season, Tete, Liam Bailey, Mother, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beardyman, Figs Cision, Wild Cub, Herbie Hancock, Christopher Owens, Spoon, Deer Tick, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Coathangers, Deep Purple, Haim, Arctic Monkeys, the Haden Triplets, Eminem, Michael McDonald, Jagwar Ma, the Temper Trap, the Good […]
Oh, it’s Halloween? ‣ Arcade Fire plays the Hollywood Palladium behind the new album “Reflektor.” ‣ Australian duo Empire of the Sun, joined by Alpine, bring their big electro shoe to the Shrine Auditorium. Empire of the Sun’s latest album “Ice on the Dune” came out in June, and that’s the video for “DNA,” above. […]
‣ Big night at the Hollywood Bowl, where duets rule the day. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell perform behind their recent release “Old Yellow Moon,” and She & Him – the pairing of M. Ward and Zoey Deschanel – play songs from their new album “Volume 3.” ‣ Iron & Wine visits the First Unitarian Church. […]
Incoming: Camera Obscura, John Grant, Alice Smith, 3OH!3, Peter Tork, Pitbull, Mount Kimbie, Eleanor Friedberger, Kinks’ Tribute, Ida Maria, Kisses, Warships, Joseph Arthur, Vans Warped Tour, Steve Miller Band, Holy Folk, the Dig, Tilly & the Wall, Sea Wolf, La Santa Cecilia, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Jonathan Wilson, Bleu, the Game, Iris DeMent, […]
Light that candle on your café table and pour yourself something pricey for this one: Iron & Wine’s new song “Lovers’ Revolution” is a smoky, soulful, jazz-influenced slow builder starring horns arranged by Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio). The tune is the first taste of songwriter Sam Beam’s fifth album, “Ghost on Ghost,” due April […]
The name of KCRW’s holiday benefit show posed the so-rhetorical-it’s-silly question “Are Friends Eclectic? Gee, waddya think? You’d be hard-pressed to find the fare at Saturday’s four-plus-hour concert in the same time zone, let alone on the same spot on your FM dial. While “Eclectic’s” genial host, KCRW music director Jason Bentley, repeatedly marveled about […]
‣ KCRW’s “Are Friends Eclectic?” holkiday benefit at the Orpheum Theatre features Jimmy Cliff, Iron & Wine, Brett Dennen, Other Lives, Mia Doi Todd, White Denim, the Belle Brigade, the Secret Sisters, Zee Avi and others. ‣ Jane Birkin makes her first Los Angeles appearance in seven years at Cal State L.A.’s Luckman Fine Arts […]
KCRW’s “Are Friends Eclectic?” holiday benefit, originally planned as a two-night event, will go off as a one-night affair featuring headliners Jimmy Cliff and Iron & Wine (pictured). Tickets for the show Dec. 3 at downtown’s Orpheum Theatre start at $60. The rest of the formidable lineup lineup includes Other Lives, the Belle Brigade, Anna […]
Show offerings on a wild Wednesday: ‣ Happy birthday to Jennifer Lee, aka Tokimonsta, the Coachella-bound DJ/producer who’s celebrating with a show tonight at Low End Theory at the Airliner. ‣ Iron & Wine returns for a second night at the Wiltern, with the Low Anthem. ‣ White Sea comes aboard for the Foster the […]
Top Tuesday outings: ‣ NME cover boys the Vaccines, whom we previewed last week, make their L.A. debut at the Satellite, and if it’s like the U.K. quartet’s U.S. debut last week in New York, it will be a very short headlining set. Their debut “What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?” will be out […]
