Sunset Junction is off. The L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday unanimously rejected the Sunset Junction Street Fair’s permit for this weekend’s festival, ending a week’s worth of drama that included impassioned arguments for and against the two-day event, initial rejection of the festival’s application and a frantic 36-hour fund-raising effort by organizers to […]
UPDATED, 5:30 p.m.: Sunset Junction organizers have raised the $141,000 in city fees to resubmit their case to the L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday morning. The morning post: Organizers of the beleaguered Sunset Junction Street Fair are scrambling to collect donations in an effort to reach the $141,000 they need to induce the […]
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works voted this morning 3-1 to deny a permit for this weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair – but the matter may be reconsidered at the commissioners’ next meeting on Wednesday morning. With only Commissioner Valerie Lynn Shaw – who admitted she’d never heard of Sunset Junction until this year’s […]
The fate of next weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair will be decided on Monday morning at a meeting of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works. The meeting, which is open to the public (live audio is available here), is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Room 350 at City Hall. At issue are fees […]
This just in from our friendly neighborhood local newspaper: Sunset Junction’s permits may be withheld until festival organizers pay $267,000 the city is owed. Stay tuned.
Sunset Junction is barely more than three weeks away? Time to plan. Here’s how to get tickets, and after the jump, the complete set times (with one “special guest” still to be announced):
Lots and lots to start your weekend: ‣ Rooney and Voxhaul Broadcast team up at the El Rey Theatre. Rooney’s latest batch of power-pop “Eureka” is edgier than their first two albums; Voxhaul’s debut “Timing Is Everything” came out in March. ‣ Black Lips and Cerebral Ballzy bring the party to the Music Box. Black […]
The video for Voxhaul Broadcast’s single “Leaving on the 5th” was inspired by “Thomas Edison’s’ ”˜Serpentine Dance’ on hand-tinted film,” director Justin Franklin tell Spinner, where the clip debuted today. It works, especially with the song’s pin-prick guitar line and grandiose yearning. The L.A. quartet’s debut “Timing Is Everything,” came out last month after a […]
Taylor Locke has all the makings of a pop star. He has the comportment of a rock frontman, the requisite guitar licks and a boyish tenor that sounds oh so earnest when he belts out all those songs about girls. He has apprenticed as guitarist in the L.A. quintet Rooney. And suddenly, about two years […]
This happens sometimes: You like the side project more than you like the real deal. Such is the case with Taylor Locke & the Roughs – the four-piece anchored by the Rooney guitarist, along with Chris Price, ex-Like bassist Charlotte Froom and drummer Mikey McCormack. In April, Locke released “Grain & Grape” (including the track […]
