Incoming: Agenda Festival, Chinatown Summer Nights, Dirty Penni Fest, Rod Stewart, Baths, Albert Hammond Jr., Max Frost, Vampire Weekend, Kadhja Bonet, Gavin Turek, Freddie Gibbs, Years & Years, Janelle Monae, Dan Sadin, the Regrettes, SiR, Magic Giant, Fishbone, EasyFriend, Dam-Funk, Goon, Cold Cave, Smokey Robinson, Snail Mail, the Horrors
Janelle Monae references the horror in Orlando, prodigy Joey Alexander astounds, Cécile McLorin Salvant soars and Seth McFarlane croons at the Hollywood Bowl.
From the small-screen stars to standouts such as Donald Harrison Jr., Los Van Van, Aurelio and Janelle Monae, the 38th Playboy Jazz Festival promises a full, and fulfilling, weekend. There’s a tribute to the late B.B. King as well.
Incoming: Warped Tour, Ed Sheeran, Alex & Sierra, Blackwater Jukebox, Garate, Seven Saturdays, Bernhoft, Metronomy, the Mountain Goats, Crash Kings, Atomic Ape, Emily Wells, Fyfe Dangerfield & Aristazabal Hawkes, Them Howling Bones, Bad Suns, Clean Bandit, Kaya, Cowboy Junkies, Failure, Gavin DeGraw, Rodigro Amarante, Sabrina Antoinette, Chad VanGaalen, Adrian Sherwood, Sam Outlaw, Victoria Reed, Bones […]
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 […]
A very indie Tuesday: ‣ Indie-rock quartet the Lonely Forest [pictured] play the Bootleg Bar behind their new Chris Walla-produced “Adding Up the Wasted Hours,” with Cumulus supporting. ‣ San Francisco folk-elecronic trio Geographer headlines the Echoplex, supported by Royal Bangs. ‣ Cymbals Eat Guitars bring their ’90s-flavored indie-rock tot he Satellite, with Mrs. Magician […]
Saturday things: ‣Â HARD Day of the Dead kicks off its 2-day festival with Skrillex, Nero, Boys Noize, Them Jeans and more at the Los Angeles State Historic Park. ‣ Two Door Cinema Club kicks off a night of electro-pop with Capital Cities and St. Lucia as support at the Greek Theatre. ‣ Johnny Marr stops […]
Coming from two of Janelle Monae’s collaborators, the music of Deep Cotton is, not surprisingly, rather giddily all over the map – eccentric pop and punk and funk with a defiant sensibility even as it smilingly skips down the road toward musical comedy. It’s the work of Chuck Lightning and Nate Wonder, who with Monae co-founded […]
Incoming: Arcade Fire, HARD Day of the Dead, Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare, Ronnie Spector, Tori Kelly, Demi Lovato, Slayer, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Bonobo, Danny Elfman, Megadeth, CocoRosie, the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, Iron & Wine, the Cartel, Andy Clockwise, Geronimo Getty, the Neighbourhood, Gov’t Mule, Lewis Watson, Hiatus Kaiyote, Kirin J. Callinan, Falling in […]
[In response to the inevitable questions I am asked at shows – What have you heard? What are you listening to? What’s new? – today I embark on something called Random Dispatches … the contents of my notebook, spilt.] ‣ Lavender Diamond’s recent show at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts was a revelation, […]
