Tonight in L.A.: Nothing, KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Jason Lytle
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Also on Sunday: CHVRCHES, Ours, High on Fire, Miles Parrish, Spindrift, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, Beach Boys, Jonny Lang, Eli Young Band
This Week’s Shows: Dec. 2-8
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Incoming: Pixies, Shannon Lay, Corridor, Zimmer, Motor Sales, Mat Kearney, Schoolboy Q, Snoop Dogg, Sheryl Crow, Mr. Carmack, Battles, Anna Calvi, Magic Giant, Black Flag, Sasha Sloan, Angel Olsen, Dir En Grey, Alex Cameron, Daughters, Moon Hooch, the Hu, KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball, KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Alt 98.7’s Share the Love, Dreamers, Drab Majesty, Kills Birds, Surfbort, Sonny & the Sunsets, Thrice, Snoh Alegra, Maria Taylor, Greyson Chance, Louis Cole, Distant Cousins, Ours, Jason Lytle, Nothing
Stream: Jesse Jo Stark, ‘Deadly Doll’
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“Deadly Doll” may or may not be Jesse Jo Stark’s alter ego — the singer-songwriter’s new single leaves a lot to mystique. She’s doing the Echo residency this month.
Stream: Grandaddy, ‘Way We Won’t’
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Grandaddy’s two new songs are their first in a decade, and an album is in the works for Danger Mouse’s 30th Century Records.
Tonight in L.A.: The Darkness, Joss Stone, Calexico, RZA, Here We Go Magic, Melvins Lite, Jason Lytle
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Winging it on a Wednesday: ‣ U.K. quartet the Darkness rocks Club Nokia behind its comeback album “Hot Cakes.” You want camp? You should check out the video for “Everybody Have a Good Time,” which we can’t quite bring ourselves to post here ‣ Joss Stone visits the Wiltern behind her new album “The Soul […]
Tonight in L.A.: Shiny Toy Guns, Local Natives, Jason Lytle, Beth Orton, Toadies, Taking Back Sunday, Etienne De Crecy, Go West Young Man
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Tuesday’s schedule: ‣ Shiny Toy Guns play a sold-out show at the Echoplex behind their new album “III” (out this week), the quartet’s first new material since 2008 and a collection that marks the return of Carah Faye Charnow to the band. MNDR and Of Verona open the show; that’s STG’s new video for “Fading […]
The Week Ahead: Oct. 22-28
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Incoming: Bob Dylan, Kaki King, Mika, Jason Lytle, Shiny Toy Guns, Beth Orton, Toadies, Taking Back Sunday, Joss Stone, Calexico, the Darkness, RZA, Motion City Soundtrack, Two Door Cinema Club, Matt & Kim, Tiger Army, Matthew Dear, Flying Lotus, Z-Trip, Jane’s Addiction, the Presets, Macklemore Above: Northern Irish rock band Two Door Cinema Club play […]
Stream: Jason Lytle, ‘Dept. of Disappearance’
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We’d barely gotten ourselves prepped for the Grandaddy reunion show (Aug. 13 at the Fonda, with their Central Valley brethren Earlimart) than the news hit that Jason Lytle has a new album on the way. “Dept. of Disappearance” arrives Oct. 16 via Anti-, and the title track is signature Lytle – swirling electronics, whimsical lyrics […]
Valentines for Admiral Radley’s ‘I Heart California’
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Admiral Radley’s debut album “I Heart California” is out today digitally, and the band – a collaboration between Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch of Grandaddy and Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray of Earlimart – plays the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum next Thursday, July 8. I talked to the principals […]
SXSW Day 3: Party all day, rock all night and …
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My assignment for SPIN.com kept me tied up at the SPIN 25 party at Stubb’s all afternoon for nonstop music capped by Hole’s first North American concert in more than a decade. The highlight of the support bands that day was the indoors set from Harlem [above], whose crackling garage rock made me wish I […]
