Incoming: Viva! Pomona, Chinatown Summer Nights, In The Red Records 25th Anniversary, Summer on Seventh, Taste of Chaos, Azealia Banks, Mark Lanegan, Deerhoof, BØRNS, Halsey, Shannon & the Clams, Ducktails, Baaba Maal, Diana Ross, Sting and more.
Clocks back, moving forward: ‣Â Jimmy Eat World, celebrating the 10th anniversary of “Futures,” visits Club Nokia, supported by Minibosses. ‣ His new album “Phantom Radio” just out, Mark Lanegan brings his band to the El Rey Theatre. Above, the video for “Sad Lover,” from Lanegan’s “No Bells on Sunday” EP that preceded “Phantom Radio’s” release […]
Incoming: Ben Howard, Circa Waves, Rachael Yamagata, Faded Paper Figures, Delta Spirit, Ab-Soul, London Richards, Live, Shawn Mullins, the Rural Alberta Advantage, the Wild Feathers, B.o.B., the Soft White Sixties, Marilyn Manson, Betty Who, the Airborne Toxic Event, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Steve Aoki, the Stone Foxes, Nick Jonas, Citizen Cope, the Album Leaf, Queens […]
Fare for a fabulous Friday: ‣ Long-running Britpop quartet Travis visits the Wiltern Theatre behind their new album “Where You Stand.” That’s their chilly video for “Moving,” above. ‣ Trevor Powers brings his project Youth Lagoon to the First Unitarian Church, where Pure X opens. ‣ His new album “Imitations” out last month, Mark Lanegan […]
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, […]
Our show picks for Morrissey’s birthday (Moz himself is in San Diego tonight): ‣ The Riverboat Gamblers’ new album “The Wolf You Feed” is out today, and the Texas punk-rock quintet celebrates with a show at the Satellite, supported by Biters and Roll the Tanks. ‣ The Mark Lanegan Band swings back through town behind […]
Your jam-packed Thursday itinerary: ‣ Its new album “Blues Funeral” just out, the Mark Lanegan Band [praises sung earlier this week] headlines the Echoplex. ‣ Brooklyn electro-pop outfit Class Actress – the brainchild of producers Mark Richardson and Scott Rosenthal and singer Elizabeth Harper, headline the Echo behind their recent release “Rapprocher.” That’s Harper and […]
Considered in the moment, the Mark Lanegan Band’s new album “Blues Funeral” seems the perfect antidote to today’s falsetto-wielding pop stars and harmony-high folkies. Of course, Lanegan’s moment has been going on for nigh three decades now, from his early work with grunge gods Screaming Trees to collaborations with Queens of the Stone Age, the […]
[The next-to-last installment of Jonneine Zapata’s journal …] Sept. 22, New York City Lord have mercy on our poor little souls – there’s just no parking the van in the city! We’re in a speculative spot right in front of the club (Bowery Ballroom), but technically you can’t park there until 7 p.m. It’s 5 […]
L.A. rock songstress Jonneine Zapata might be unsigned, but she’s hanging out with the right people. Zapata, whose self-released debut “Cast the Demons Out” remains one of the finest albums to emerge from L.A. this year, will be opening for the Mark Lanegan-fronted Soulsavers on a 15-date national tour in September. Included is a Sept. […]
