Monday, and it’s already a ridiculous night for shows: That familiar face you can spot playing the early set tonight at Gangi’s residency at Spaceland is actor/director Adam Goldberg, who will be fronting his musical project LANDy. Goldberg has written songs for years and has been an occasional collaborator in the L.A. band the Black […]
[A light night in the city, unless you like residencies, which we do, or have a spot at the invite-only Yusuf show at the El Rey Theatre, which we don’t …] Gangi’s residency at Spaceland ratchets up the volume, with Ikey Owens’ Free Moral Agents, Crooked Cowboy and Saint Motel on board for Week 2. […]
[Happy birthday to Merle Haggard, good riddance to my jet lag, and let’s see if after a few days in a land far, far away I can get back in the swing of things …] I only need to visit my Midwestern hometown a few days before realizing how good, as a fan of live […]
[Birthdays wishes go out to Robin Zander … now, if making through this weekend’s concert schedule were only a cheap trick:] Today: Chris Pierce [pictured] has been spreading his feel-good R&B around his native Los Angeles since he was a teenager, and the young soul man has amassed enough devotees that he has the headlining […]
To hear Juliette Commagere tell it, she needed a break — not so much from music, but from the rough-and-tumble business of fronting a perpetually-on-the-verge rock band. So the keytar-slinging singer of the dance-rock quartet Hello Stranger struck out on her own. “I guess I was feeling a little bit frustrated — we had just […]
[Around in Internet quicker than you got tired of Britney’s new single:] ‣ OK Go’s next album is being produced by David Fridmann? Color me curious … ‣ You want something autographed by Ringo Starr? Better get it in the mail Monday. Yeah, right, peace and love … ‣ Great account of the Palladium’s reopening […]
