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. […]
Chinatown Summer Nights went off in a big way on Saturday night, with Moving Units’ ferocious dance-punk stoking a rabid crowd into dancing, moshing and crowd-surfing as the midnight hour approached. The set was interrupted briefly when one miscreant disobeyed security, but in the end music prevailed, and there was plenty on this final installment […]
‣ It’s another installment for Chinatown Summer Nights at the Old Chinatown Central Plaza. Moving Units, the Peach Kings, the New Electric Sound, the Cold & Lovely, Magic Bronson and the Rebel Light all perform on the Buzz Bands LA-curated live music stage. KCRW DJSÂ Anthony Valadez and Raul Campos will be spinning at the dance […]
Incoming: The Interrupters, the Futures League, Mauldin Strangers, Smoke Season, Tete, Liam Bailey, Mother, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beardyman, Figs Cision, Wild Cub, Herbie Hancock, Christopher Owens, Spoon, Deer Tick, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Coathangers, Deep Purple, Haim, Arctic Monkeys, the Haden Triplets, Eminem, Michael McDonald, Jagwar Ma, the Temper Trap, the Good […]
The third Chinatown Summer Nights of 2014 is two weeks away: On Aug. 9, Moving Units headline a Live Music Stage lineup that boasts the Peach Kings, the New Electric Sound, the Cold & Lovely, Magic Bronson and the Rebel Light. To get you properly amped for the night, or maybe as a way of […]
Party-starters Moving Units, the long-running dance-punk outfit helmed by songwriter/producer/DJ Blake Miller, will headline the final edition of Chinatown Summer Nights on Aug. 9. Joined in the live lineup now by Mike Delgado. Danny De Leon and Boz, Miller will perform music from last year’s “Neurotic Exotic” (the band’s first album in six years) on […]
‣ Punk-rock foursome OFF! headline the Roxy Theatre behind their new album “Wasted Years,” supported by Cerebral Ballzy and NASA Space Universe. That’s OFF!’s new video for “Red White and Black,” above, directed by the Admiral and featuring comedians Dave Foley (“Kids in the Hall”) and Brian Posehn (“Mr. Show”) as fascists who get what […]
Incoming: Stagecoach, Arcade Fire, Fascinator, Lawrence Rothman, Banta, Mystic Braves, Mosco Rosco, Godflesh, AJR, Tove Lo, The Men, DEATH, Elizabeth & the Catapult, Heaps N Heaps, Xiu Xiu, Asher Roth, Guns N’ Roses, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Daley, Tom Brosseau, Tommy & the High Pilots, Run Things, Flagship, OFF!, Thou, Moving Units, T. Mills, Plan B, Dean Wareham David […]
Here’s your fantastic Friday: ‣ Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks visit the the El Rey Theatre behind their first album in three years, “Wig Out at Jagbags.” That’s Jay Winebrenner’s video for “Cinnamon and Lesbians,” above. ‣ Moving Units and Torches team up for a show at the Roxy Theatre, with House Fire supporting. ‣ […]
