Your Friday night show options: ‣ South Bay punk-rockers Joyce Manor celebrate the release of their album “Never Hungover Again” with a show at the El Rey Theatre. That’s the video for “The Jerk,” above. ‣ The Figat7th Downtown Festival continues with a free show featuring the Internet and BJ The Chicago Kid. It kicks […]
Incoming: Erik Hassle, Mötley Crüe, Lady Gaga, Martha Wainwright, Twin Atlantic, Nico Vega, Goo Goo Dolls, Kawehi, Cymbals, Triple Dippers, Honey County, Gold Star, OK Go, Man or Astro-Man, Nightmare and the Cat, Tori Amos, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Kaneholler, Hot Karate, The Crookes, White Lung, the Frights, A Place to Be, A Million Billon Dying Suns, […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ It’s a big night at the Hollywood Bowl with Broadway actress-singer Kristin Chenoweth, the Go-Go’s and Pink Martini. ‣ Kuenta i Tambú (aka KIT) provides the sounds at the Getty Center as part of the Saturdays Off the 405 series. ‣ If you’re looking for an outdoor show a little closer to […]
Incoming: Warped Tour, Ed Sheeran, Alex & Sierra, Blackwater Jukebox, Garate, Seven Saturdays, Bernhoft, Metronomy, the Mountain Goats, Crash Kings, Atomic Ape, Emily Wells, Fyfe Dangerfield & Aristazabal Hawkes, Them Howling Bones, Bad Suns, Clean Bandit, Kaya, Cowboy Junkies, Failure, Gavin DeGraw, Rodigro Amarante, Sabrina Antoinette, Chad VanGaalen, Adrian Sherwood, Sam Outlaw, Victoria Reed, Bones […]
As fans have seen throughout her teenage growth spurt, Chloe Chaidez is a changeling. Fronting L.A. quartet Kitten, Chaidez – now all of 19 – can play ferocious rocker girl, electro-pop starlet, angsty confessor and New Wave princess with equal aplomb, making the foursome’s live shows a spectacle of surprises. When Kitten’s self-titled debut album […]
Thanks for the good times, 2013. Now on to the hottest prospects for 2014. Last year’s Bands to Watch cited more than 20 Los Angeles acts who were already signed and ready to release full-lengths. Most of them did – although the vagaries of the record business and the occasional pratfalls of the creative process […]
There may have been 202 local albums released this year (yes, 202), but sometimes you can’t get have a successful finale without putting out a little teaser first. EPs are often overlooked when making year-end lists, but we at BBLA HQ believe the preview is just as important as the finished product. Short releases are […]
Incoming: Desaparecidos, Charli XCX, Deerhoof, Diego Garcia, Geographer, Teen Daze, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Bolts, the Lonely Forest, Destroyer, Meat Puppets, Switchfoot, Atlas Genius, Blink 182, Selena Gomez, the Parson Red Heads, Blitzen Trapper, Crocodiles, Mazzy Star, the Gaslamp Killer, Those Darlins, Tired Pony, the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Jonathan Wilson, GZA, the Lonely […]
Is Monday night the new weekend, or what? ‣ Animal Collective brings its spectacular stage show to the Wiltern Theatre, where Dan Deacon opens. ‣ Best Coast headlines the Fonda Theatre behind this week’s release of its new mini-album “Fade Away.” It’s a benefit for the Los Angeles Animal Rescue, and Baby Alpaca and Death […]
Offerings for a fabulous Columbus Day: ‣ Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls headline the Fonda Theatre behind Turner’s widely praised album “Tape Deck Heart.” The Smith Street Band and Koo Koo Kanga Roo open; that’s the video for “The Way I Tend to Be,” above. ‣ Canadians star at tonight’s installment of It’s a […]
