Your show picks for a steamy Wednesday: ‣ Superchunk headlines the El Rey Theatre behind their latest album “I Hate Music.” Colleen Green opens. Jason Narducy fills in for the ailing Laura Ballance on bass for the long-running Chapel Hill, N.C., rockers. ‣ Perfect for your NIN hangover – industrial duo Youth Code rocks the […]
Jonathan Bates’ Big Black Delta, hard-rock quartet Dead Sara and ska-punk veterans the English Beat head up the lineup for the Port of Angeles Lobster Festival, which this year again brings a strong lineup of local bands to Ports O’ Call Village in San Pedro. The three-day festival runs Sept. 13, 14 and 15. Also […]
Chinatown Summer Nights kicked off in exultant fashion on Saturday night, celebrating Chinatown’s 75th anniversary with the unveiling of a 7-foot statue of Bruce Lee, a birthday cake and a lineup of music that climaxed with fans joining headliners Nightmare & the Cat onstage for a dance-party finale. The fivesome, who revealed they had just […]
Here’s what’s ahead on Saturday: ‣ This year’s first edition Chinatown Summer Nights celebrates Chinatown’s 75th anniversary, with Nightmare & the Cat headlining the LA Weekly Local Music Stage (at 11 p.m.). The event kicks off at 5 p.m., and a statue of Bruce Lee will be dedicated at 7:45. The live music lineup features […]
Incoming: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bjork, the 88, Radar Bros., Parson Red Heads, Snowden, Caifanes, Tijuana No, Beth Orton, Fall Out Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Alkaline Trio, Emily Wells, Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Barry Manilow, the Dandy Warhols, CSS, Cold Cave, Ozma, Nightmare & the Cat, Robert DeLong, Robert Earl Keen, the Bats, Peter […]
Soulful indie-rockers Nightmare & the Cat, the Los Angeles-based quintet masterminded by British brothers Django and Sam Stewart, will headline the LA Weekly Local Music Stage at the kickoff to 2013’s Chinatown Summer Nights on Saturday, June 15. The evening’s festivities will celebrate Chinatown’s 75th Anniversary – and, in a special nod to the area’s […]
Whimsy begat more whimsy on Thursday night at the Skirball Cultural Center. The occasion was “Gary Baseman’s House Party” – the gala opening of the fiftysomething artist’s exhibition “Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open” – and it had all the trappings of a house party, maybe the kind your parents might kabosh. Local rockers […]
Big, big schedule for Thursday: ‣ Wavves play a Red Bull Sound Select tonight at the Echoplex, joined by Hands, Incan Abraham and HOTT MT. That’s the video for the title track of Wavves’ latest album “Afraid of Heights,” above. ‣ Upstairs at the Echo, Telekinesis rock the tunes from its latest album “Dormarion,” supported […]
As great as this year was on the Los Angeles music scene, 2012 was only foreplay compared to what awaits in 2013. This year’s “Bands to Watch” could go on and on and on, like one of those “whoa-oh” choruses that populated our 2012 playlists. No fewer than 22 L.A. bands are signed and ready […]
It’s a mighty good Monday (if you ignore the weather): ‣ At the Satellite, where Chasing Kings’ residency roars into its fourth week, U.K. quartet the Chevin makes its L.A. debut. That’s the video for the title track from the West Yorkshire lads’ 2011 EP, “Champion,” above. Tonight’s bonus – you also gets sets from […]
