Incoming: Frank Turner, Wavves, the Dodos, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, Sleigh Bells, Simple Minds, Free the Robots, Disclosure, Atoms for Peace, Haim, Clannad, Langhorne Slim, Reuben & the Dark, Devildriver, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, City & Colour, Kaskade, Little Dragon, MS MR, Braids, Hindu Pirates, Adult, Typhoon, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Gwar, Tim Kasher, […]
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, […]
Incoming: The Rolling Stones, the Killers, Metallica, Los Lobos, Paramore, HIM, Built to Spill, Metz, Alice Russell, Robyn Hitchcock, Marnie Stern, Killing Joke, Chad Valley, Big Black Delta, Clinic, Vietnam, Keaton Simons, Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, Javelin, Maps & Atlases, Little Boots, Pyyramids, Os Mutantes, Lisa Germano, Armin Van Buuren, Helmet, K’s Choice, Saint Motel, […]
Our friendly neighborhood rock radio giant flexes its muscles today by throwing the annual KROQ Weenie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre. If you’re shut out of the sold-out show, or simply don’t want to battle traffic, crowds and the inevitable rowdy dudes stoked to see Stone Temple Pilots, Buzz Bands is hosting the live […]
[Birthday greetings today to roots-rock king Dave Alvin, who, by the way, will be playing one of the upcoming West Coast, Left Coast events at Walt Disney Concert Hall – he’s there Dec. 6 with Brian Wilson and the Living Sisters (Inara George, Becky Stark and Eleini Mandell). Here’s what’s up tonight:] Australia-by-way-of-Chicago’s Via Tania […]
The first show of Paramore’s 19-date U.S. tour on Tuesday night at the Fox Theater in Pomona was cut short after the frontwoman of the Nashville pop-punkers, Hayley Williams, lost her voice. Here’s my review on Spin.com.
[Birthday greetings go out to Rufus Wainwright today. Meanwhile, big doings all over SoCal tonight:] No Doubt’s return to the road has been triumphant, from all the reviews, and it finally hits the band’s native southern California tonight. Paramore is the main support band at the sold-out Gibson Amphitheatre, and although they don’t seem to […]
