Incoming: Sonny Boy Thorn, Beach Party, Soak, Motopony, Sleep State, Calexico, Indigo Girls, Lianne La Havas, Astronauts Etc., Muna, Two Sheds, Spurs, Russell Howard, the Mowgli’s, Landlady, Max and the Moon, Lukas Rossi, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Son Lux, Jurassic 5, Dopapod, Morris Day, Breakestra, Verite, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, Frontier Ruckus, Berner, X, […]
Lord Huron’s cinematic folk music evokes the expansive vistas of the American West — imagine a heartsick man ahorseback tortured by the life he left behind, or expectant about the one he’ll find. Singer-guitarist Ben Schneider and mates squeezed every ounce of ennui out of it in front of the misty-eyed multitudes at the Wiltern […]
Quite a Saturday we have ahead: ► The KROQ Weenie Roast goes off at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, with Muse, AWOLNATION, Vance Joy, X Ambassadors, James Bay, Saint Motel, Of Monsters & Men, Big Data, Walk the Moon, Florence & the Machine, All Time Low, Cold War Kids, Death Cab For Cutie and Panic! At […]
Incoming: KROQ Weenie Roast, Joshua Tree Music Festival, L.A. Vegan Beer & Food Festival, the Bird and the Bee, Cillie Barnes, the Moth & the Flame, Lapsley, Golden Coast, A House for Lions, Dead Sara, Sepultura, Reggie Watts, Sick of Sarah, the Wombats, Nick Mulvey, Waka Flocka Flame, Torres, Elvis Perkins, Thrice, Froth, the Temperance […]
Ben Schneider describes “Strange Trails,” his new album as Lord Huron, as an anthology of weird fiction with “no direct narrative connection” between this sophomore effort and 2012’s widely lauded “Lonesome Dreams.” “The stories here are separated by time, location and characters,” the L.A.-based Michigan native explains, although “many of the themes have carried over […]
Have a Monday: ‣ Goo Goo Dolls perform at the Embrace the World Benefit Concert, benefiting the Good Shepherd Shelter, at the Troubadour. Run River North open. ‣ Another benefit at the El Rey Theatre – Lord Huron headlines a show for the David Lynch Foundation, with Escondido opening. ‣ Tijuana Panthers head up the the […]
Incoming: Smashing Pumpkins, Goo Goo Dolls, Lord Huron, Tijuana Panthers, Marie Digby, HIM, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Francisco the Man, Smoke Season, Schoolboy Q, Corners, Ryan Adams, Meiko, Art Alexakis, Scott Kinnebrew, the Power Cords, Weezer, Dustin Kensrue. Matt Pryor, Jonwayne, Intronaut, the Dan Band, Fishbone, Mystic Braves, Royal Machines, Stevie Wonder, Dillon Francis, Infected Mushroom, […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ The Ace Hotel Theatre in downtown L.A. continues to host the LA Bluegrass Situation. The 2-day festival features Lord Huron, Blind Pilot, Shakey Graves and Langhorne Slim tonight. ‣Â Damien Jurado [pictured], the Record Company, Los Amigos Invisibles, Salt Petal and Eric Lilavois all gather at Taste of South Lake (251 S. Lake, […]
Incoming: Belle & Sebastian, Lorde, Boy & Bear, Justin Townes Earle, Dave Rawlings, Mark Gardener, Carbon Leaf, Aeges, Dream Boys, Planets, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, the King Khan & BBQ Show, Angus & Julia Stone, Robert Plant, Bishop Allen, Drowners, Halfbluud, Ought, Kasabian, Sondre Lerche, Twenty One Pilots, Shonen Knife, Wartime Recitals, Rose’s Pawn […]
A mariachi band at the beginning and confetti at the end – Lord Huron knew how to close out a tour right. The L.A.-based quartet, the vision of Ben Schneider, brought its Western-flavored jams to the Fonda Theatre for two shows over the weekend that turned out to be epic performances. For those who saw […]
