Also on Tuesday: Joe Hill Centenary Concert, Riothorse Royale, Matthew Logan Vasquez, Evanescence, Corrosion of Conformity, Big K.R.I.Y, Lion Babe, Alex & Sierra, Vox Waves, L.A. Drones
Including: The Psychedelic Furs, Low, Seal, Meg Myers, Youth Lagoon, Evanescence, Tom Morello, Zac Brown Band, Halsey, Ryan Bingham, Minus the Bear, Broncho, Hunter Hunted, the Polyphonic Spree, RAC, the Cult, Deafheaven and more.
Meg Myers is “Sorry.” No, she really is. I mean, it hasn’t sounded like it those times she’s bared her teeth on her first two EPs, last year’s “Make A Shadow” and 2012’s “Daughter in the Choir.” But the onetime Jehovah’s Witness from Tennessee, can play contrite as well as unrepentant, both with vein-popping vigor. […]
Forecasting the future, especially at an arbitrary juncture such as year’s end, is a fool’s game. As we learned from our “Bands to Watch 2014,” the timelines for artists’ releases, as well as their creative processes, are frequently capricious. Some things take time. Other things happen overnight. There’s probably some already-signed artist woodshedding right now […]
EPs can be funny little beasts. They often serve as kind of a hi-how-ya-doin’ introduction rather than a broad artist’s statement – a handful of songs, a particular single, maybe a remix or three, a taste of what is to come. They vary so much in breadth they are difficult to review. So the Buzz […]
Three years and two EPs since she was serving food at a restaurant down the block, Meg Myers headlined the Echo on Thursday night, proving every bit as enigmatic as she was when she introduced herself as a “Daughter in the Choir.” ||| Photos by Carl Pocket, courtesy of the Echo Myers’ short-ish set – […]
A dizzying array of great shows for your Thursday: ‣ Neutral Milk Hotel, so sublime at Coachella heads up a great lineup at the Hollywood Bowl that also features the Breeders and Daniel Johnston. Caveat: The notoriously camera-shy Jeff Mangum has stipulated that Neutral Milk Hotel’s set not be shown on the Bowl’s big screens. […]
Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Jane’s Addiction, Failure, Cold War Kids, Empire of the Sun, Mayer Hawthorne, Tarfest, Hunter Hunted, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Mosco Rosco, Fenech-Soler, Soft Swells, Rise Against, Andrew Belle, Daedelus, Karen O, Buzzbocks, Coldplay, Train, De Lux, Magic Mirror, Vulpeck, Augustines, Chuck Ragan, Cheap Trick, Diana Ross, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, […]
Here’s what’s up on a terrific Tuesday: ‣ Meg Myers celebrates the release of her “Make a Shadow” EP (out today) with a show at the Bootleg Bar. Irontom and Bom Bom support. Above, Myers’ video for “Desire.” ‣ Indie-rock trio Augustines, back with a self-titled second album, rock the Troubadour, supported by My Goodness […]
Incoming: Spiritualized, Failure, Jessica Childress, Jarell Perry, Augustines, Band of Horses, Meg Myers, St. Lucia, Sylvan Esso, Royal Teeth, Pontiak, Mother Falcon, Greg Laswell, Hospitality, Blackbird Blackbird, Imagine Dragons, Touché Amoré, Breakestra, Biffy Ckyro, the Vivian Girls, Secret Chiefs 3, Peter Bradley Adams, Eagles of Death Metal, Falling in Reverse, Thao & the Get Down […]
