Shut out of Coachella? Don’t want to deal with the desert? So in love with your favorite artist that you want to tack on another show besides the festival? Goldenvoice has lined up a bunch of luminaries playing the festival (April 12-14 and 19-21 in Indio) to perform at other southern California venues. The dizzying […]
Here’s the Coachella lineup. Ticket info: Festival passes for both weekends go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. Festival passes for Weekend 1 must be purchased with a shuttle pass or a car camping pass. New for 2013, the price you see is the price you pay – prices reflect all fees included. […]
Updated: Since the download of this album has expired, we’ve included the stream below. File under limited-time offers: Jim Fairchild, the former guitarist for Grandaddy and the current guitarist in Modest Mouse, has been busy touring and working on his third album as All Smiles. I backgrounded it last November when All Smiles made a […]
[Happy birthday, Paul Weller. What I wouldn’t give for a little Jam this morning:] Top 5 ways to make merry musically in Los Angeles tonight: ‣ Watch enchanting Australian brother-and-sister folkies Angus & Julia Stone – their new album “Down the Way” is awfully sweet – on the first of their two sold-out nights at […]
All Smiles – the nom de tune of songwriter-guitarist Jim Fairchild – this week released a new EP, “Fall Never Fell,” the follow-up to his sophomore album “Oh For the Getting and Not Letting Go” (which is also finally seeing physical release). Fairchild, the former Grandaddy guitarist who is now touring axeman in Modest Mouse, […]
Billy Corgan has been holed up in L.A. in recent months, writing new Smashing Pumpkins material, and at the Sky Saxon Tribute on Friday night at the Echoplex, he sprung one on the audience. Fronting a one-night-only band called Spirits in the Sky, which featured members of Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Electric Prunes (as […]
[Happy birthday to Abe Vigoda – not the band, silly, the actor. Abe’s 88 today, and we love him as much as Conan O’Brien does.] The pride of Issaquah, Wash., Modest Mouse [pictured], hits town tonight for a show at the Palladium that, as of early this morning, was not sold out. Mimicking Birds (signed […]
Modest Mouse has announced a 12-date tour that includes a Feb. 24 stop at the Hollywood Palladium, with sometimes-L.A. resident and ex-Grandaddy guitarist Jim Fairchild rejoining the band. Fairchild, who’s completed but not released his sophomore album as All Smiles, takes the place of ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr – who, when not involved in academic […]
