Thursday things: ‣ JD Samson & MEN visit the Echoplex behind this week’s release of their “Time” EP – the second of four EPs the band plans to release this year. L.A.’s Brother and Touché support. That the video for MEN’s “Make Him Pay,” above. ‣ Retro wunderkind Nick Waterhouse celebrates the release of his […]
Fine fare for your Wednesday: ‣ Portland sextet Blitzen Trapper visits the Troubadour behind their 2011 album “American Goldwing” – that’s director Brian Adrian Koch’s video for “Taking It Easy Too Long,” above. Opening are the Parson Red Heads, the former L.A. residents whose recent turn on “Portlandia” had everybody buzzing. ‣ Two influential rockers […]
Fantastic Friday things: ‣ Old-school R&B adventurer Nick Waterhouse, at work on a debut album coming out in the spring, brings his edgy, vintage sounds to the Bootleg Theater. [Refresher: See the video for “I Can Only Give You Everything.”] The Allah Las and Anna Egge support. ‣ At the Echo, it’s soul phenom Allen […]
[Blues shredder Jonny Lang turns 30 on Saturday. In other celebrations:] Top picks for a frenzied Friday: ‣ Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub and Rocco DeLuca play tonight the El Rey Theatre. ‣ El Ten Eleven and Superhumanoids team up to rock the Central SAPC in Santa Monica ‣ Tonight in the final installment of the […]
[Sorry I’m a little late with this today, I was all flustered trying to think of what to do for Jessica Simpson’s 30th birthday Saturday.] My top 5 reasons to slam in the earplugs this weekend: ‣ When I first heard “Hippies” and posted “Friendly Ghost” in March, I knew I’d be hooked on Harlem. […]
At the risk of inducing blank stares from the hipsterati who are only occasionally hip enough to embrace their progenitors, I’ll take a moment this morning to tout the new album by Peter Case, “Wig!” (out last week on Yep Roc). Crate-diggers might know Case from early pop-punkers the Nerves (excellently re-issued, by the way), […]
When Laura Ann Masura’s longtime friend Josiah Mazzaschi heard she had been injured in a motorcycle accident, he didn’t sit on his hands. He got on the phone. Mazzaschi, the frontman of local indie-rock band Light FM, has organized a benefit concert, Jam for Laura Ann, on Sunday at the Echoplex to help Masura, a […]
[A quick happy 70th birthday to Judy Collins, and a happy May Day to you. Other responsibilities are going to force me to be very brief with this update – see Duke for a bigger rundown.] Tonight: If I’m still standing by this evening, it will be Wolfmother and the Ruby Sons at First Fridays […]
[Random news items from my inbox …] Friends are rallying en masse in support of Peter Case, the L.A. icon who underwent emergency open-heart surgery on Jan. 15. A fund, Hidden Love, has been set up to help defray the medical expenses of the former Plimsouls frontman, 55, who had no health insurance and is […]
