Josh Klinghoffer is an axeman extraordinaire – his latest gig, of course, is as John Frusciante’s successor in Red Hot Chili Peppers – but the album he made as Dot Hacker is not a guitarist’s album, at least not in the way the solo works of Frusciante or, say, Graham Coxon are. The music, made […]
Indie rock, benefits and more: ‣ Two of the night’s biggest shows are benefits – the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ gig at Club Nokia (for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music) and Fiona Apple at Largo (for the Littlest Tumor Foundation, a neurofibromatosis charity). ‣ Meiko warms up for a big September tour with a date […]
Joel Graves, guitarist for the Los Angeles quintet Everest, took one look at the cluster of photographers astride the red carpet at Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday night and rolled his eyes a little bit. “What we doing here?” he laughed before he and bandmates Russell Pollard, Eli Thomson, J. Soda and Davey Latter […]
[File under: Things I have heard, seen or read:] Little Radio, R.I.P?: Reports of the demise of Little Radio have been exaggerated. The six-year-old Internet radio station, whose struggles have been bandied about on the Internet recently, remains up and running and webcasting curated playlists, although it suffered a setback earlier this year when it […]
[Birthday cheers go out Sunday to Donovan, and I hope this abbreviated rundown isn’t too late to inform your weekend plans:] Tonight, updated: Here’s where it gets loud – Spectrum, who will be joined by members MGMT, plays Club Underground at the Echo tonight, along with the Entrance Band and Abe Vigoda. … Grand Duchy, […]
