Incoming: Leonard Cohen, Refused, Jens Lekman, A Place to Bury Strangers, Andrew W.K., Metz, Japandroids, Titus Andronicus, Cat Power, Delta Spirit, Smoking Popes, Barbra Streisand, Afghan Whigs, Minus the Bear, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Trail of Dead, Y La Bamba, Tilly & the Wall, Sea Wolf, Mumford & Sons, the Monkees, the Sea & Cake, […]
Is everybody properly giddy over this new song from Mumford & Sons? The band last month announced its sophomore album “Babel” would arrive Sept. 24, and the brisk first single “You Will Wait” premiered on the BBC today. It sounds like what they do: gospel-inspired folk-meets-bluegrass. Sound the horns. ||| Stream: “I Will Wait” Photo […]
One good idea spawned another Saturday evening at South by Southwest. Last spring’s Railroad Revival Tour – the train journey that carried Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show from Oakland to New Orleans and stopped for six shows along the way – was documented by director Emmett […]
Sunday’s merriment: ‣ Night 2 of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas boasts a lineup that includes Jane’s Addiction, the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Death Cab for Cutie and Noel Gallagher, along with the likes of Foster the People and Grouplove. The evening will be webcast right here. (P.S.: There’s an after-party at Hemingway’s where a […]
Your fabulous Friday fare … ‣ Eastern Conference Champions’ new album “Speak-Ahh,” its first full-length of new material in four years, is due out on Tuesday, and the L.A. trio celebrates with a show tonight at the Echo with Hands and Hot As Sun supporting. ‣ The Railroad Revival Tour – which features three bands […]
Mumford & Sons followed Bright Eyes with a main stage-worthy set on Saturday night at Coachella, their three-part harmonies wafting over the festival grounds like a desert breeze and their emotional folk music augmented by a horn section. Photographer Jim Donnelly provides the sights.
Top 3 U.K. acts to see in L.A. tonight (and the best one is not a Mercury Prize nominee): ‣ The RSVP-only It’s a School Night at Bardot features the French Horn Rebellion, Mia Doi Todd and secret guests from across the pond. I hear it’s a Manchester band signed to a local label. Be […]
Mumford & Sons have it down pat. Maybe even too pat. When the West London quartet brought its folkbluepopgrass* to the Fonda Theatre for the first of two sold-out shows on Thursday night, the lads were everything that Angelenos have come to love in visitors from Old Blighty: handsome and dapper with snappy British accents, […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Suzi Quatro …] Top 5 ways to feed your ears tonight: ‣ Get some soul – Fitz & the Tantrums, whose debut album “Pickin’ Up the Pieces” isn’t out until Aug. 24, stokes the fires by kicking off a Thursday night residency at Spaceland. ‣ Canadian indie-rockers Born Ruffians […]
||| Source: Mumford & Sons, “Little Lion Man” ||| Live: Mumford & Sons play Thursday and Friday at the Fonda Theatre. More: Stolen Lyric artist: mumford & sons
