It’s a full-on Friday night: ‣ Four bands associated with the 1980s movement known as the Paisley Underground – the Bangles, the Three O’Clock [pictured at Coachella in April], the Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade – team up at the Fonda Theatre for a show benefiting music education programs in L.A. ‣ The Skirball Cultural […]
Incoming: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, De Lux, Cat Power, Froth, VUM, the Wild Reeds, Xiu Xiu, BLEAUX, Entrance Band, Sam Smith, Howie Day, Tapioca & the Flea, Mikal Cronin, Redd Kross, Pretty Lights, Beyonce, Pusha T, Bright Light Bright Light, LA Font, Conquistador, Every Time I Die, Mirror Days, Problem, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, the […]
‣ Anybody going to see Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z at the Rose Bowl? The “Legends of the Summer” tour date is sold out. The Bay Area show on Friday night was a blast. See the Rose Bowl’s advisory for attendees right here. Wearing a “Suit & Tie?” Probably not recommended. ‣ Brooklyn post-punkers Weekend celebrate […]
Incoming: Wolfmother, the Postal Service, Savages, Bastille, Davis Fetter, Futurebirds, PAPA, the Happy Hollows, NO, Candlebox, the 1975, Big Freedia, Hockey, Saint Motel, the Belle Brigade, Modest Mouse, Skylar Grey, No Age, Night Terrors of 1927, Glassjaw, Dan Wilson, Twin Shadow, Bauhaus, Rancid, Viva Pomona, International Pop Overthrow, the Cult, Courtney Love, Frightened Rabbit, Fitz […]
Big stuff, small stuff, and Buzz Bands LA’s stuff: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night goes off at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park with a eclectic quartet of acts – the Quick Hellos, 7Horse, Frankel and Jack Burnside. Get all the details here. ‣ Jay-Z & Kanye West do another installment of the […]
There’s free, and not free, on this soggy Monday: ‣ Not free: The second night of the “Watch The Throne” spectacle, with Jay-Z & Kanye West, at Staples Center. ‣ Also: Dinosaur Jr. performs its album “Bug” and chats with Henry Rollins in a big night at O.C.’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa […]
Sunday’s merriment: ‣ Night 2 of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas boasts a lineup that includes Jane’s Addiction, the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Death Cab for Cutie and Noel Gallagher, along with the likes of Foster the People and Grouplove. The evening will be webcast right here. (P.S.: There’s an after-party at Hemingway’s where a […]
Back in April, we told you about “Shapes and Variations,” the covers EP by L.A.’s Robotanists that takes material by the likes of Joe Jackson, the Black Keys and Lykke Li and treats it like silly putty. Included there was “Exiled State of Mind” – a rather shapely variation of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” […]
Who: Jay-Z at the main stage. In 3 or Fewer Words: Rap’s king, crowned. I’ll remember this set for at least the next year because: Jay-Z’s full-band set was the moment that hip-hop became a fully-functioning member of Coachella nation. Sure, it’s been represented – even exhaulted – before (case in point: a pre-backlash surprise […]
Three things that took the shine off Friday’s opening day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival: 1) Volcanic ash. The fallout from the Icelandic volcano continued to stifle European air travel, and among those trapped across the Atlantic were Coachella-bound bands the Cribs, Frightened Rabbit and Bad Lieutenant, who canceled their appearances. I […]
