Punk legends X kicked off a four-night residency at the Observatory on Thursday night on the heels of an announcement that morning that guitarist Billy Zoom has been diagnosed with bladder cancer. ||| Photos by Monique Hernandez Zoom, 67, born Tyson Kindell, vowed to participate in Observatory shows, which celebrated X’s first four albums — […]
Your Thursday show menu: ‣ Public Enemy – just announced this week as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – visits Club Nokia, performing along with X-Clan, Monie Love, Schoolly D and Leaders of the New School. ‣ Gee, does anybody like Social Distortion? The veteran punk band’s string of sold-out southern California […]
Bloomfest, the annual one-day arts, music, crafts and food event in the downtown Los Angeles arts district, not only got bigger and better this year, it seemed to grow even more eclectic. Saturday’s free street party offered attendees a relaxing afternoon and evening in and around the shops, galleries and restaurants near 3rd and Traction, […]
Aussie songstress Grace Woodroofe, Echo Park quintet NO and India-born singer Helena [pictured] have been added as main-stage attractions for Bloomfest, the downtown arts distict’s one-day music, art and community extravaganza on Saturday, July 21. The one-day street festival (2 to 10 p.m.) will also feature a punk-rock stage with Mike Watt and the Minutemen, […]
‣ If it’s the first Sunday of the month, that means Daniel Ahearn and the Sunday Night Jones will be playing at the Satellite. L.A. band Taylor Locke & the Roughs and Canadian alternative folk-rock band Deep Dark Woods [See “West Side Street” ] also join in on the fun. ‣ Judson McKinney celebrates the […]
Groupies, this laugh is on you. Margaret Cho’s video for “Baby I’m With the Band” (from her comedy music album “Cho Dependent”) was made at this year’s Bonnaroo 2010, where she romped with rock luminaries too numerous to mention. (Check out the look on Brendan Benson’s face at 1:15.) It’s posted here not just because […]
Tonight … tonight … tonight: ‣ L.A.’s favorite track-suited Norwegians, Datarock, are sprinting across the U.S. in suport of their new album “Music for Synchronization” and touting what they’ve called “the most extravagant single in the world,” the track “Catcher in the Rye.” The song is available on a 4GB USB stick – that also […]
[From our Dept. of Anti-Grammys:] Back in the early days of this Internet portal, we introduced you to composer/producer Chris Schlarb, along with his project I Heart Lung. The Long Beach-based multi-instrumentalist has collaborated with myriad musicians on the avant-garde tip, but it’s his tour de force that got our attention last November. His album […]
[Birthday greetings go out to Kristin Hersh, long may she rock …] Today: Color me curious about this weekend’s shows by Elefant, the New York City quartet who made a modest splash with their tamed-for-radio dance-punk back in 2003-04. “Misfit” was pretty irrestistible, and the band’s male model-type frontman Diego Garcia did a great job […]
[Happy birthday to Duff McKagan, rock star, online columnist and … mountain climber.] My, what a diverse music menu you have tonight, Los Angeles. Let’s start with a couple intriguing small shows, like at the Silverlake Lounge, where Andy Friedman & the Other Failures are in from Brooklyn. Friedman is a New Yorker cartoonist-turned-poet-turned-folk singer […]
