The Pershing Square Summer Series has announced its 2015 slate of free shows, highlighted by double-bills featuring Shelby Lynne [pictured] and the Jayhawks on Aug. 1 and Rickie Lee Jones and Joseph Arthur on July 25. The annual summertime fare at the downtown park kicks off with a series of lunchtime concerts on Wednesdays starting […]
Your Tuesday show options: ► The Weepies [more here] play the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “Sirens,” with the Silent War supporting. ► Sweden’s Seinabo Sey visits the El Rey Theatre behind her strong debut, “For Madeleine,” with L.A. trio James Davis opening. That’s Sey’s vidieo for “Younger,” above. ► Joseph Arthur’s new album […]
Incoming: Playboy Jazz Festival, LA Pride Festival, D’Angelo, Tennis System, Hunny, Crash Kings, Sam Prekop, Scavenger Hunt, Sheppard, the Noogies, Making Movies, Dustin Kensrue, the Weepies, Seinabo Sey, Whitesnake, Joseph Arthur, Drenge, Wardell, Broken Arrows, Lupe Fiasco, Yelawolf, Tyler Lyle, the Kooks, A.R. Rahman, Sam Outlaw, Hexes, Holychild, Cosmonauts, In the Whale, Ray Wylie Hubbard, […]
Tuesday must be singer-songwriter night in the city: ‣ Jack White’s new album “Lazaretto” comes out today. And the world’s most famous former upholsterer headline the Fonda Theatre tonight, supported by Cold War Kids. ‣ Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur visits the Troubadour behind his new album “Lou: The Songs of Lou Reed,” his interpretation of a […]
Incoming: Chinatown Summer Nights, Low End Theory Festival, Klingande, the Darling Buds, Dirty Loops, Jack White, Patrick Park, Gibralter, Jolie Holland, Rocky Votolato, James Bay, Them Howling Bones, Joseph Arthur, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Natural Remedy, T-Pain, Chicano Batman, EELS, Chelsea Wolfe, Kate Brown, King Buzzo, Luciano and Judah Eskender Tfar & the Heartical […]
A heavy-duty Thursday: ‣ Joseph Arthur visits the Troubadour behind his ambitious new album “The Ballad of Boogie Christ,” a psych-soul record with horns, back-up singers and roots, conceptually, in David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character. Ben Haper and Juliette Lewis are expected to play in Arhthur’s band tonight. Above, the slideshow video for “All the […]
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, […]
Our heads are spinning already … and two weeks of this to come: ‣ Madchester favorites James, with a deluxe boxed set “The Gathering Sound” (all 11 of their studio albums on USB stick, 3CDs, a DVD, vinyl and more – whew) on the way, play a pre-Coachella show at the El Rey Theatre. Elizaveta opens. […]
Thursday’s menu: ‣ Irish rockers Two Door Cinema Club visit the Wiltern Theatre, with local quintet Grouplove opening. Above is Grouplove’s recent video for “Tongue Tied,” off its debut “Never Trust a Happy Song.” ‣ The Janks celebrate the release of their album “Hands of Time” with a show at the Bootleg Theater. American Tomahawk […]
Depending on your weather patterns, the gothic dream-pop of Cerise Leang – who just goes by Cerise, thank you – can be haunting or enchanting. It is at the very least cinematic, which is no surprise given that the Brooklyn-based songstress’s acting career and that her first foray into the arts was in film school, […]
