Los Angeles’ perennial hip-hop MC Murs has a new imprint called Label 316, and he has put together a new posse-showcasing track titled “S.O.S.” The Pharaoh Davis-directed music video was shot at the Beach Hut Deli in Reno, Nev., full of old-school arcade games, and features Highland Park’s Reverie, New Jersey’s Kosha Dillz, Oklahoma City’s […]
Incoming: Desaparecidos, Charli XCX, Deerhoof, Diego Garcia, Geographer, Teen Daze, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Bolts, the Lonely Forest, Destroyer, Meat Puppets, Switchfoot, Atlas Genius, Blink 182, Selena Gomez, the Parson Red Heads, Blitzen Trapper, Crocodiles, Mazzy Star, the Gaslamp Killer, Those Darlins, Tired Pony, the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Jonathan Wilson, GZA, the Lonely […]
Shows to go with your sunny Saturday: ‣Â It’s a perfect day to head down to Santa Monica Pier, especially when Poolside, YACHT, Kisses and Them Jeans play as part of the summer series “All Bands On Deck” starting at 4:00 P.M. An after-party will follow featuring DJ sets by Poolside, Guns in the Sun and […]
‣ Jackson Browne and friends perform a benefit for KCSN at the Valley Performing Arts Center ‣ Latin Grammy nominee Ana Tijoux heads up a night at the Echoplex, supported by Kamasi Washington and Chicano Batman. That’s her video for “Volver,” above. ‣ Omaha dance-rockers the Faint [see last week’s post] headline the Fonda Theatre, […]
The feast on Thanksgiving eve: ‣ Quite a night ahead on Hollywood Boulevard – Morrissey plays the first of his three SoCal dates at the Music Box, and less than two blocks away the Cure closes out its three-night stand at the Pantages Theatre. ‣ Lucinda Williams does the second of her two nights at […]
Sets by Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest and Lauryn Hill (top) highlighted Saturday’s Rock the Bells festival at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, where a crowd estimated at 25,000 got their old-school hip-hop on. I will leave the reviewing to my former colleague Jeff Weiss, the only man who write […]
[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 […]
[A heaping helping of birthday wishes to David Byrne, and now to capsulize a busy night in the city:] Even if you steer clear of the boldfaced names playing the bigger rooms – Mos Def at the House of Blues, Murs and Tech N9ne at the Key Club, the Indigo Girls at the El Rey […]
[Around in Internet quicker than you got tired of Britney’s new single:] ‣ OK Go’s next album is being produced by David Fridmann? Color me curious … ‣ You want something autographed by Ringo Starr? Better get it in the mail Monday. Yeah, right, peace and love … ‣ Great account of the Palladium’s reopening […]
