Incoming: Echo Park Rising, Incubus, GZA, Washed Out, Matthew Sweet, Pokey Lafarge, Sam Hunt, Jill Scott, Royal Blood, Neon Indian, Willie Nelson, Warpaint, Helado Negro, Margaret Glaspy, Dayme Arocena, Atmosphere, Brazilian Girls, X, Midnight Oil, Shabazz Palaces, 311
Also on Monday: JP Saxe, Nightmare Air, Brian Hill & the Noh Starrs, Chastity Belt, Thunder Gut, Steel Panther
Incoming: Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, KRS-One, Priests, Alt-J, Neil Diamond, Steve Miller Band, Suzanne Santo, Diana Krall, the Avett Brothers, Hans Zimmer, Ed Sheeran, James Vincent McMorrow, Steve Earle, Dreamcar, Yo La Tengo, Nite Jewel, Alice Cooper, more
L.A. shoegazers Nightmare Air head in a more pop-friendly direction on their two new singles, the lush “Sign of the Times” and “Who’s Your Lover.”
Happy middle of the week. Here’s your Wednesday: ‣ Minneapolis’ Polica visits the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “Shulamith,” just out on Mom+ Pop Records. Marijuana Deathsquads open. ‣ Back with a new EP titled “AHJ,” Albert Hammond Jr. holds forth at the El Rey Theatre, with Rathborne opening. That’s the new video for […]
L.A. quartet Saint Motel will headline this year’s Tarfest, a free day of music and art in Hancock Park adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits. The musical lineup also includes Nightmare Air, Tapioca & the Flea and Echosmith, with a fifth band possibly to be added. The 11th annual event, which runs from 2 […]
The crowd was decidedly old-school on Wednesday night at the Satellite, peppered with once-a-monthers who used to be thrice-a-weekers back in the days three or four or five years ago when Silver Lakers were united in the opinion the Happy Hollows could be the next big thing. They still could, but to their credit the […]
Monday’s things: ‣ Wolfmother is back for one more round at the Troubadour. Get there early to see singer-songwriter Kieran Leonard. ‣ So many residencies, so little time. Crashing the Miner residency at the Bootleg Bar tonight is Florida’s Roadkill Ghost Choir, whose indie twang has earned comparisons to Wilco, My Morning Jacket and a […]
Let’s get this Monday started: ‣ Future Bible Heroes visit the Echo, but without a turn from principal songwriter Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), who continues to suffer the effects of an ear ailment that makes it painful for him to perform live. Future Bible Heroes’ new album “Partygoing” is just out on Merge (who also […]
Nightmare Air’s long-in-the-works debut “High in the Lasers” is the sound of three people at the volume of 3,000 – blissful layers of guitar, bass and drums that isn’t so much shoegaze as it is sonic neurosis. It’s the brainchild of guitarist and pedal geek Dave Dupuis, who played in Film School and paid some bills […]
