Who: Kimbra in the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: KCRW Kiwi Memorable Because: If you played the last 10 years of Morning Becomes Eclectic Broadcasts simultaneously at moderate volume, it might sound something like Kimbra’s charming afternoon set, so chock-full of references and borrowings from the pleasant sounds of yesteryear (soul, jazz, R&B, […]
Incoming: Coachella, System of a Down, Maroon 5, Odessa, Francisco the Man, Dorothy, Winter, Magna, Civil Twilight, Andrew McMahon, Jenny Lewis, the Fontaines, Jim Lauderdale, Great Caesar, the Used, Dutch Party, Jessie Ware, Ride, Tame Impala, Earl Sweatshirt, the Preatures, Lieutenant, Ariana Grande, Drive Like Jehu, Kimbra, Benjamin Booker, Caribou, the Warlocks, the Underachievers, Odesza, […]
Thursday night things: ‣ British singer Jessie Ware plays the Tower Theatre behind her new album “Tough Love,” out this week. [Check out “Say You Love Me”] ‣ Matisyahu visits Club Nokia behind his new album “Akeda,” with Cisco Adler and Radical Something supporting. ‣ TV On the Radio does a second night at the […]
Incoming: Alt-J, Pentatonix, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Metronomy, White Denim, Banks, Dry the River, Hanni El Khatib, Olin & the Moon, Hobart W Fink, TV on the Radio, Nas, Eastern Conference Champions, Fever the Ghost, the Acid, Matt Ellis, the Brave Ones, Ceci Bastida, Matisyahu, Jessie Ware, the Melvins, Le Butcherettes, Kimbra, Sloan, Tom Vek, Movement, Colin […]
A great big Sunday in store: ‣ Pixies head up a rockin’ night at the Hollywood Bowl that also features Cat Power and Gogol Bordello. ‣ The star-studded George Fest at the Fonda Theatre salutes the music of George Harrison – it features guests such as Brian Wilson, Norah Jones, Brandon Flowers & Mark Stoermer […]
Incoming: Way Over Yonder, Big Star Third, George Fest, Drake, Interpol, Motopony, the Rescues, La Roux, Lykke Li, Tears for Fears, Youth Code, Slash, Denny White, the Raveonettes, A Day to Remember, Jaymes Young, Yellowman, Shyboy, the Eeries, Justin Nozuka, Allen Stone, Temples, the Kooks, Simian Mobile Disco, Rocco DeLuca, Mia Doi Todd, Hank 3, […]
Here’s your Sunday fun: ‣ Day 2 of the Sunset Strip Music Festival with brings audacious Aussies Empire of the Sun to West Hollywood, along with Mayer Hawthorne, Destructo, Iration, Big Data, Tove Lo, Big Freedia, We Came As Romans, Nostalghia, Fenech-Soler, DJ Quik, Killer Mike, N.O.R.E., SPEAK, Babes, PPL MVR, Pterodactyl Jones, FMLYBND and […]
Incoming:Â Long Beach Funk Fest (George Clinton, Karl Denson), Jesse McCartney, KChung Fest, Bear in Heaven, Whirr, James David, Glen Martin, Stiff Little Fingers, David Gray, Leslie Stevens, Strand of Oaks, Zachariah & the Lobos Riders, Shiny Toy Guns, OK Go, City & Colour, Neon Trees, WAZ, Mother Falcon, Kins, Brian Wright, Senses Fail, Dwight Yoakam, […]
Your Thursday things: ‣ New Zealand songstress Kimbra headlines the El Rey Theatre behind her debut “Vows” (a remix EP is just out as well), with the Stepkids opening. Above, Kimbra’s video for “Two Way Street.” ‣ Filter magazine’s Culture Collide festival begins in earnest, the multinational gathering at four venues in Echo Park (the […]
Incoming: The Lumineers, Garbage, Justin Bieber, the Shins, Emmylou Harris, the Jezabels, Deerhoof, Wax Tailor, the Wombats, Conor Oberst, Kimbra, Father John Misty, Nick Lowe, Coheed & Cambria, Dr. Dog, Patrick Wolf, the Offspring, Jason Mraz, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, the Black Keys, the Head & the Heart, She Wants Revenge, the Maccabees, Of Montreal […]
