Friday’s potpourri: Hear from Sea Wolf, Neil Young, Sofi Tukker, Mating Ritual and more; support the staff at shuttered L.A. venues; listen to Phantom Planet’s updated 2008 song “Quarantine.”
Also on Friday: Motion City Soundtrack, Mariachi El Bronx, Wyclef Jean, Michael Kiwanuka, Mating Ritual, Theo Katzman, Patrick Watson, Agnes Obel, Maria Blues, the Shivas, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Bizou, Fury, Blackbird Blackbird, Death by Stereo, Sophie Meiers, RX Bandits, CAPYAC
Presenting “Popular With Us 2019: Buzz Bands LA’s Albums of the Year” — it’s one of those long lists that sums up our strong feeling that it was one hell of a year.
Finishing up a tour behind their latest album “Hot Content,” Mating Ritual proved warm and engaging at Teragram Ballroom, playing new songs and old.
Also on Saturday: That Dog., Letters to Cleo, Madonna, Melissa Etheridge, Sergio Mendes, Madeon, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Baby Bash, Scary Pockets, Snails, Jonathan Bree, Little Boots, Suzy Jones, Bestial Mouths, Charlotte Martin, Kindness, Grateful Shred, Phora, the Babe Rainbow, Post Malone, Save Ferris, Cosmic Gate
Incoming: Madonna, Adult Swim Festival, The Get Together, Richard Thompson, Andrew McMahon, Simple Creatures, Alessia Cara, Max Bemis, the Menzingers, Frankie Cosmos, Cat Power, Matt Maeson, Jessica Hoop, the Babe Rainbow, Madeon, Chelsea Wolfe, Sylvan Esso, Sleater-Kinney, Twin Peaks, Nahko & Medicine for the People, the Milk Carton Kids, the Paranoyds, Hovvdy, Mating Ritual, Melissa Etheridge, That Dog., Letters to Cleo, Little Boots, Cold War Kids, Plague Vendor, Bad Bunny, Frenship, Ghostland Observatory, Post Malone
With their third album “Hot Content” still getting some heat, relentless and relentlessly catchy L.A. duo Mating Ritual return with a new single, “King of the Doves.” They headline the Teragram Ballroom on Nov. 16.
Mating Ritual simply can’t wait for the future. It’s one of the messages on the duo’s latest album “Hot Content,” their third in three years.
Also on Monday: CAPYAC, Bruce Hornsby, STRFKR, the Palms, Harry Katz & the Pistachios, Balto, Annie Hardy, Carrie Manolakos
Incoming: Ariana Grande, Mating Ritual, the Palms, Gungor, Bruce Hornsby, STRKFR, Tom O’Dell, ASHRR, Bayonne, FKA Twigs, Spencer Krug, the Faint, Sam Gellaitry, Freya Ridings, White Lies, Al Green, Todd Rundgren, Rival Sons, Alec Benjamin, Tim Hecker, Destroyer, Eels, Yann Tiersen, L7, Nico Muhly, HEALTH, OHMME, Bad Suns, Private Island, Like Totally Music Festival, Jenny Lewis, Amanda Palmer, TOKiMONSTA, the Bouncing Souls, Angelo de Augustine, St. Lucia, American Football
