Incoming: Mike Stinson, Courtney Love, Sonny & the Sunsets, Purity Ring, Alt-J, Icona Pop, Wayne Shorter, Dave Mason, Evan Voytas, Shwayze, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Cee Lo Green, Trombone Shorty, Moderat, Dende & Band, Everest, Black Sabbath, YACHT, Jenny O., Café Tacvba, War, Joe Satriani, Riverboat Gamblers, the Dickies Above:Â The video for the […]
Here’s an encouraging note for the bands around town who try and try and try some more: Leslie & the Badgers’ self-released album “Roomful of Smoke” (which we loved when it came out last year) has been picked up by Nashville-based label Thirty Tiger (home to Elizabeth Cook, Justin Townes Earle, Jim Lauderdale and Those […]
Set times have been announced for this weekend’s Sunset Strip Music Festival, a three-day affair highlighted by Saturday’s party on Sunset Boulevard. The street will be closed on Saturday between Doheny Drive and San Vicente Boulevard to accommodate two outdoors stages – with music going on inside the Roxy and the Key Club, there will […]
The Black Lips, Lucero, No Age [pictured], Lightning Bolt and the Thermals will be among the acts playing Sean Carlson’s FYF Fest (formerly known as the F Yeah Fest), scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 5, at Los Angeles Historic State Park in downtown. The lineup, announced today, includes locals such as Darker My Love, Dios, Avi […]
[Joel and Benji Madden celebrate their birthday today, on what apparently is a popular day to be born, judging from the number of reminders on my pesky my social networks. Can we just automate the huzzahs?] It’s not his birthday until Saturday, but tonight’s installment of Low End Theory at the Airliner is being called […]
[Bluesman Jonny Lang will always seem like a teenager to me; hard to believe he’s turning 28 today. Although tht stillmakes him a whiz kid to me …] Nikolai Fraiture [pictured] of the Strokes – under the nom de tune Nickle Eye – released his debut “The Time of the Assassins” this week, and while […]
[Second of two parts] The past few years, in the halcyon days when I toiled for the local newspaper, I wrote an annual L.A. music review, handicapping the bands I thought might, for one reason or another, have the stuff to break out of the local scene. Following are my Bands to Watch 2009 [and […]
