Incoming: Glass Animals, Fitz & the Tantrums, the Shelters, Incan Abraham, Jonathan Richman, the Sounds, Eagles of Death Metal, Yasiin Bey, the Afghan Whigs, Rooney, Metallica, Weyes Blood, the Dandy Warhols, Dios, James Supercave, TV on the Radio
Before embarking on their “Groundswell” tour, Rooney will play a free hometown show. Their first album in six years, “Washed Away,” came out in July.
Rooney’s resurgence, and their new album “Washed Away,” made for a celebratory headlining show on Friday night at the Teragram Ballroom.
Also on Friday: Kaskade, Explosions in the Sky, Sun O))), Dream Theater, Blaqk Audio, Hippo Campus, Tom O’Dell, Sonny Boy Thorn, Julianna Barwick, Brightener,
Incoming: Duran Duran, Tegan and Sara, Rihanna, the Subways, Pete Yorn, Peter Murphy, Mayer Hawthorne, Bleached, Explosions in the Sky, Lucius, Dungen, X, Rooney, Sunn O))), Violent Femmes, Big Freedia, Lacuna Coil and more.
On “Washed Away,” out May 6, songwriter Robert Schwartzman re-boots the Rooney brand after five years of other projects and legal disputes with former bandmates.
In 2010, about the time the wheels started to wobble for California popsters Rooney (who were releasing and touring behind their final album), the quintet’s guitarist Taylor Locke was just getting rolling. His side project Taylor Locke & the Roughs released two albums seven months apart. But except for launching the (great) cover band Rumours: […]
As the principal songwriter for three albums and an EP by Rooney, Robert Schwartzman penned unfailingly hooky power-pop tunes. So it stands to reason that his new venture into electro-pop would have the same quality. Working under the name Starsystem, Schwartzman in October released the EP “Pleasure District,” a six-song foray into the happier corners […]
On the surface, Taylor Locke does not have it rough. He’s poster-boy handsome, dispenses guitar licks with the best of ’em and has played with Rooney for a decade or so. But Locke does wear his heart on his sleeve, and there lies the source material for the music of Taylor Locke & the Roughs, […]
Voxhaul Broadcast is one Los Angeles’ finer musical offerings who offer up a tight package of bluesy rock with melody and grit. Earlier this year they released “Timing Is Everything” (their debut full-length album which boasts the passionate “Leaving on the 5th” and the funky punk of “Cheetah”) and now the boys are taking it […]
