Tuesday’s big deals: ‣ Frightened Rabbit and Augustines bring their rafter-rattling indie-rock to the Avalon Hollywood. ‣ U.K. lightning bolt Jake Bugg headlines the Fonda Theatre, supported by Honeyhoney. ‣ Phosphorescent visits the El Rey Theatre behind its brilliant album “Muchacho.” Indians support. ‣ Portland-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs plays the Bootleg Theater behind her new […]
Incoming: Way Over Yonder festival, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Savages, Arctic Monkeys, Dr. Dog, Yacht, Terraplane Sun, Menomena, Frightened Rabbit, Jake Bugg, Phosphorescent, Laura Veirs, Kitten, Olafur Arnalds, Depeche Mode, Travis, Moby, Allah-Lahs, Noah & the Whale, Simone White, HOTT MT, Filter, the Cold & Lovely, Matt Nathanson, You Me At Six, Youth Lagoon, Foreigner, […]
‣ The Icarus Line celebrates the release of its new album “Slave Vows” at the Roxy Theatre, supported by Lido Beach, Retox, Gateway Drugs, Wake Up Lucid, Cherri Bomb and Badflower. ‣ The Presets are joined by Tanlines, Robert DeLong and FMLYBND for an X Games-related show at Club Nokia. ‣ Kitten rocks a sold-out […]
Incoming: System of a Down, Sunset Strip Music Festival, HARD Summer, Writer, Bad Rabbits, Sebadoh, Franz Ferdinand, We the Kings, Dr. John, Joan Jett, Xavier Rudd, Son Volt, Shye Ben-Tzur, El-P, the Decoders, Ours, Casey Veggies, the Sword, ZZ Top, Tony Bennett, the Presets, Kitten, the Icarus Line, Daughn Gibson, Blackalicious, José James, Ozomatli, Scott […]
The opener of the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival might have been light on the crowds, but there was no shortage of energy from the performers. Kitten [top photo], Trash Talk, the Black Lips and Obliterations peeled what was left of the paint off the the downtown warehouse complex that hosted the venue, and whether […]
For all its promotional heft, the reinvented, relocated Jubilee Music & Arts Festival on Friday felt like Introduction to Concert-Going. That owed mostly to the crowd, which was not only alarmingly sparse but very young. Rosy-cheeked fans moved in gaggles, bouncing to music from peers such as teenaged quartet Cherry Glazerr, moshing to rough-and-tumble rockers […]
So much Friday fun: ‣ Jubilee Music & Arts Festival, the 2-day with street festival between Santa Fe Ave. and 6th St. in downtown L.A., kicks off today with acts such as the Black Lips, Trash Talk, Bleached, Free Energy, Kitten and many more.  Check out the complete set times here. ‣ Capital Cities, Gold Fields and DWNTWN all return […]
The Jubilee Music & Arts Festival made it official tonight: The Drums, Black Lips, Free Energy and Kitten top the bill for the two-day event June 7-8. Promoters have extended the availability of pre-sale weekend passes, at $35, until Thursday. Formerly known as the Silver Lake Jubilee, the festival this year has moved from the […]
In one of the more unusual stunts in the annals of festival promotion, the newly relocated and newly re-christened Jubilee Music & Arts Festival today leaked a flyer for its two-day event. Local blog The Scenestar published the big reveal, and you don’t need an advanced degree in the Daily Jumble to figure it out: […]
@KRBronson on Friday at SXSW: SPIN may no longer be a print publication, but they still know how to throw one heck of a party. And if the outlet keeps booking acts like Kenrick Lamar and Solange for their annual South by Southwest event, they may want to solicit deodorant companies as sponsors. “All hands […]
