Way Over Yonder, the Newport Folk Festival’s West Coast foray, has announced set times for the Friday-Saturday event on Sept. 26 and 27 at the Santa Monica Pier. Local Natives headline the main stage on Friday night, with Jackson Browne taking over on Saturday, and the rest of the lineup features stellar Americana of all […]
Here’s what a fantastic Friday sounds like: ‣ An all-star benefit concert, “Jail Guitar Doors” – former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer’s effort to bring music programs into corectional facilties – goes off at the Ford Ampthitheatre, featuring Jackson Browne, White Fence, Ben Harper, Tom Morello, Jill Sobule and more. ‣ The Art of Elysium’s Genesis benefit […]
Jackson Browne, Local Natives, Lucinda Williams and Heartless Bastards will top the bill when the lineup is announced later today for the Newport Folk Festival’s two-day Way Over Yonder Festival on Sept. 26-27 at the Santa Monica Pier. Local Natives will headline Friday night, and Browne on Saturday. Tickets, which start at $35 for a […]
‣ Japanese quartet Mono bring their transcendent instrumental music to the Troubadour, with Helen Money supporting. Above, the video for “Dream Odyssey,” from Mono’s latest album “For My Parents.” ‣ Philadelphia’s Bleeding Rainbow visits the Church on York behind their new album “Interrupt.” Upset supports. ‣ The music of Eleni Mandell is saluted at Largo […]
‣ Beck’s “Song Reader” – his sheet-music-only release from a year ago – comes to life at Disney Hall, where he will be joined by the Los Angeles Philharmonic (conducted David Campbell, Beck’s father) and an array of special guests in a performance of the work. Collaborators include Jarvis Cocker, Jenny Lewis, Jack Black, Jon […]
Incoming: Chvrches, Body Parts, SOHN, Against Me!, Ben Harper, Beth Orton, Deptford Goth, Jessie Ware, Neil Finn, Graham Nash, Alice Glass, Albert Hammond Jr., Polica, the Happy Hollows, Moonface, Norma Jean, Autolux, Drake, John Vanderslice, Prima Donna, Screaming Females, Obits, Over the Rhine, Cayucas, Anthony Green, the Black Crowes, Thomas Dolby, the Handsome Family, EOTO, […]
Tuesday’s things:Â ‣Â Local Natives and Superhumanoids play their second L.A. show this week at the El Rey Theatre. (Local Natives also play an in-store at Amoeba earlier in the day.) ‣Â Bootleg opens up both its rooms for two shows: The theater will host Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, (of the Moldy Peaches and Little Joy, […]
‣ Jackson Browne and friends perform a benefit for KCSN at the Valley Performing Arts Center ‣ Latin Grammy nominee Ana Tijoux heads up a night at the Echoplex, supported by Kamasi Washington and Chicano Batman. That’s her video for “Volver,” above. ‣ Omaha dance-rockers the Faint [see last week’s post] headline the Fonda Theatre, […]
Incoming: Gary Clark Jr., Jack’s Mannequin, Richie Sambora, AC Newman, Wiz Khalifa, Ben Gibbard, Generationals, El Ten Eleven, Walk the Moon, Tame Impala, Joshua Radin, Jennifer Warnes, Steve Winwood, Grouplove, Milo Greene, Cold Specks, Felix Cartal, Jackson Browne, the Faint, Everclear Above: Austin’s pride and joy, Gary Clark Jr., returns to L.A. in support of […]
Nic Harcourt, the former music director and DJ at KCRW who jumped to KCSN (88.5 FM) last year, is returning to the Los Angeles airwaves on a daily basis. The all-music, listener-supported KCSN announced today that Harcourt would take over the station’s morning show (6 to 11 a.m.) beginning next week. In another move announced […]
