Last weekend’s installment of the inaugural FIGat7th Downtown Festival ended with high-fives. It began with high jinks. A formidable lineup of L.A. indie-rock bands – PAPA, NO and LA Font – rocked the plaza between two high-rise office buildings for 2 1/2 hours on Friday night, each band playing a lot of new material and […]
Your massive Thursday: ‣ The free Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier roars back into action tonight with No Age – whose fourth album “An Object” is coming next month – and Tijuana Panthers. ‣ On another beach, the Faint, Twin Shadow and FMLYBND perform at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington […]
Incoming: Wolfmother, the Postal Service, Savages, Bastille, Davis Fetter, Futurebirds, PAPA, the Happy Hollows, NO, Candlebox, the 1975, Big Freedia, Hockey, Saint Motel, the Belle Brigade, Modest Mouse, Skylar Grey, No Age, Night Terrors of 1927, Glassjaw, Dan Wilson, Twin Shadow, Bauhaus, Rancid, Viva Pomona, International Pop Overthrow, the Cult, Courtney Love, Frightened Rabbit, Fitz […]
Indie-rock sextet NO [pictured], folk-rockers Chief and indie adventurers So Many Wizards have been announced as headliners for the Los Angeles Zoo’s annual summer music series, this year going by the name “Roaring Nights.” The 18-and-older events also feature comedy, food, libations and other adventurous encounters, with the zoo’s residents and zookeepers. The series runs […]
Sunny pop, wacky rap, mind-bending psychedelia, indie anthems, roaring blues-rock – Day 2 of the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival had a little bit of everything. On a gorgeous Saturday night, it was reason, as DWNTWN’s Jamie Leffler [top photo] showed, to toss your hair around. Here are some photographic highlights from Carl Pocket, and […]
“What’s Your Name” may be a common question – especially the morning after a one-night stand – but it’s also the name of NO’s latest single which is now available on their 7-inch single with “Eleven Eleven” via White Iris Records. And just like their romantically dramatic video for breakout single “Stay With Me” off […]
Happy 1st of May … ‣ Paramore visits the Wiltern behind its wildly popular new self-titled album. Fans are “Still Into You,” as the video suggests. ‣ The Killers do the first of two SoCal dates, this one at Honda Center. ‣ U.K. provocateurs (and masked men) Clinic, doing their first U.S. tour since 2010, […]
The Jubilee Music & Arts Festival made it official tonight: The Drums, Black Lips, Free Energy and Kitten top the bill for the two-day event June 7-8. Promoters have extended the availability of pre-sale weekend passes, at $35, until Thursday. Formerly known as the Silver Lake Jubilee, the festival this year has moved from the […]
In one of the more unusual stunts in the annals of festival promotion, the newly relocated and newly re-christened Jubilee Music & Arts Festival today leaked a flyer for its two-day event. Local blog The Scenestar published the big reveal, and you don’t need an advanced degree in the Daily Jumble to figure it out: […]
It’s been a year and a half since quintet-turned-sextet NO released its free EP and defied the laws Googleable band names by becoming a favorite on the L.A. scene. So there were plenty of sing-alongs at the Echo Park band’s first big show of 2013 on Thursday when a sizable number of Eastsiders flocked to […]
