After being championed by Mayor Eric Garcetti this spring, the inaugural Made In America music festival took over Grand Park and surrounding streets this Labor Day weekend, attracting some 34,000 people on Saturday and 37,000 people on Sunday to downtown L.A. With entrances on Temple and 2nd Streets, the Marilyn main stage was situated facing […]
Happy Labor Day weekend: ‣ Made In America, the 2-day festival spearheaded by Jay Z’s Roc Nation and sponsored by Budweiser, kicks off today in downtown L.A.’s Grand Park with Imagine Dragons, Kendrick Lamar, Iggy Azalea [that’s her video for “Black Widow†featuring Rita Ora above], Afrojack, Sublime with Rome, Metric, Capital Cities, X Ambassadors, Dr. Dog, […]
“Lost Kitten,” the latest single from the fifth album by Metric, “Synthetica,” becomes a fanciful story in the hands of video director and fellow Torontonian Sammy Rawal, who imagines a young man’s quixotic quest to Mexico to find his mother, “an angel.” The video stars dancer/actor Sheldon McIntosh (aka Tynomi Banks, the pseudonym he uses […]
‣ The second night of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas goes off at the Gibson Amphitheatre, featuring the Killers, Jack White, M83, Passion Pit, Neon Trees, Of Monsters and Men, fun., Grouplove, Alex Clare and Imagine Dragons. Set times. That’s the Dori Oskowitz-directed video for Jack White’s “I’m Shakin’,” above. ‣ Metric visits the Fox Theater […]
By Gabriel Jones Rock music more or less comes down to two questions: What’s next? And/or, what decade do we resurrect? Metric has spent the better part of a decade bringing back the ’80s, an ebullient new-wave post- (if diluted) riot grrrl act that falls somewhere between Kim Wilde and Blondie. And the Canadian band […]
Tonight’s full plate: ‣ First a word from Buzz Bands LA: It’s our SecondTuesday night at Lot 1 Cafe, headlined tonight by pop-rock quintet Troup, along with Paper Pilots and Mighty Forces. ‣ The Corin Tucker Band visits the Echo behind its new album “Kill My Blues.” Summer Twins and Branden Daniel & the Chics […]
Incoming: The Raveonettes, the Corin Tucker Band, the Wallflowers, Everest, Grimes, Metric, Jeff the Brotherhood, Yelawolf, Grizzly Bear, Circa Survive, Madonna, Bettye LaVette, AWOLNATION, Aon Robin, Gossip, The xx, Patti Smith, Nouvelle Vague, Aimee Mann, David Byrne & St. Vincent, Smashing Pumpkins Above: That’s the Corin Tucker Band’s video for “Neskowin,” a song off the […]
The new single from Metric is a sexy beast, Emily Haines cooing over an alpine guitar line and insistent beats. Makes you want to hear more of the quartet’s fifth album, “Synthetica,” doesn’t it? Well, that’s what Metric is counting on. They’ve turned it into a little game – Synthetica Hide and Seek – in […]
Eastern Conference Champions have no record label, no manager, no publicist and no lawyer. But on Wednesday the woefully under-appreciated [well, not everywhere] Los Angeles trio landed one of the 15 songs on the soundtrack to “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” – putting them in the company of the likes of Muse, Metric, the Dead Weather, […]
