A splendid show selection for your Friday: ‣ Big night at the FIGat7th Downtown Festival, which returns after the holiday weekend off with Akron/Family, Peaking Lights and Lonnie Holley doing a free show in the plaza. ‣ Hunter Hunted and Harriet team up with artist Gary Baseman at the Skirball Center’s “Into the Night: Secrets […]
Incoming: Future Bible Heroes, Todd Rundgren, Western Lows, Tokimonsta, the Webb Brothers, Amadou & Miram, Queen Latifah, Crash Kings, Yes, Surfer Blood, Inc., Ximena Sariñana, Incan Abraham, Olafur Arnalds, Portugal. The Man, Akron/Family, Hunter Hunted, Say Anything, Vieux Farka Touré, Young Dubliners, Las Cafeteras, Lightning in a Bottle festival Slightly Stoopid, Colbie Caillat, Psychedelic Furs, […]
‣ Two beloved acts who released their debut albums within three months of one another in early 1980s – the Psychedelic Furs and X – highlight the six-week summer concert series at Pershing Square in downtown L.A. The free series runs six consecutive Saturdays starting July 13 and features, among other headliners, Dave Alvin, the […]
Top 4 reasons my dog will miss me tonight: ‣ Fitz & the Tantrums wind up their Spaceland residency; it’s the last chance to catch them before their July 15 appearance at the Hammer Museum as part of the Also I Like to Rock series. ‣ Speaking of soul men, Eli “Paperboy” Reed plays the […]
[Double-barreled birthday wishes go out Saturday to Tegan and Sara. It’s Jarvis Cocker’s birthday too. Now for your busy weekend, starting with two festivals:] Head east: The third annual Clean Air Clear Stars festival goes off at Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, with a heaping helping of excellent psych-rock tonight, Saturday and Sunday. Support global […]
Happy Mondays were pioneers in fusing psychedelic rock and soul with house music, becoming a standard-bearer of the club culture-mad Manchester scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s. The heyday of the Factory Records period was depicted in the movie “24 Hour Party People,” which got its name from a Happy Mondays hit. Those […]
[One sentence or so, over and out …] The roster at Anti- Records gets even more eclectic with today’s news of the signing of Dead Man’s Bones, the project of Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling and fellow actor Zach Shields, whose debut album (produced by Ima Robot’s Tim Anderson) will come out Oct. 6. (Click on image […]
