Rains washed out the ski competition at Sunday’s second day of the Air + Style Festival at the Rose Bowl, and the weather thinned the crowd too, but the bands were troupers, slogging through their sets to the soggy masses. Umbrellas, anyone? ||| Photos by Zane Roessell One thing for certain: Neither precipitation nor technical […]
Incoming: Chinese New Year Festival, Air & Style Festival (Kendrick Lamar, Diplo, Phantogram, Flaming Lips, Steve Aoki, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Sleigh Bells, more), Avid Dancer, Banta, Scavenger Hunt, Young Creatures, Charming Liars, Fire in the Hamptons, the Parlor Mob, Monogem, Billy Idol, Over the Rhine, Peter Himmelman, No Parents, the Beta Machine, […]
It was fitting on Sunday at the Treasure Island Music Festival that U.K. quartet Palma Violets opened their set with a cover of “California Sun,” the song the Rivieras made a hit in 1964. There was sun at the festival, but it wasn’t very warm. The entire crowd had learned Saturday that there was a […]
Your fab Friday night: ‣ U.K. rockers Placebo play the Wiltern behind “Loud Like Love,” its first album in four years. The Bret Easton Ellis-narrated video for “Too Many Friends,” above, will test your powers of observation. ‣ Noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells, whose third album “Bitter Rivals” came out this month, visits the El Rey […]
So here’s your Tuesday: ‣ Quite a night ahead at the Echoplex – Wavves headlines behind their recent release “Afraid of Heights,” and along with come King Tuff and Jacuzzi Boys. Above, Wavves’ video for “That’s On Me.” ‣ The Dodos visit the El Rey Theatre behind their recently released “Carrier,” Dustin Wong opening. ‣Â Simple Minds, […]
Incoming: Frank Turner, Wavves, the Dodos, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, Sleigh Bells, Simple Minds, Free the Robots, Disclosure, Atoms for Peace, Haim, Clannad, Langhorne Slim, Reuben & the Dark, Devildriver, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, City & Colour, Kaskade, Little Dragon, MS MR, Braids, Hindu Pirates, Adult, Typhoon, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Gwar, Tim Kasher, […]
Although it was cool of Sleigh Bells – the Brooklyn duo comprised of Derek Miller and Alexis Kruass – to direct their own video for new single “Bitter Rivals” through the Creators Project, it isn’t distracting enough to sway one from comparing them to the Ting Tings. Sleigh Bells’ mashup of R&B, pop, punk and electronica […]
[Photos and capsule reviews of selected sets from the Main Street Stage at Saturday’s FYF Fest:] Refused, M83, Sleigh Bells, Warpaint, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Chairlift, Two Gallants, Moonface, the Soft Pack, White Arrows ||| Photos by Laurie Scavo More photos and reviews after the jump:
Things for 4/4: ‣ Montreal folkies the Barr Brothers – that’s a video of their performance at an Austin bicycle shop during SXSW, above, which included Andrew Barr playing percussion on a bike – swing back through town behind their self-titled debut album. They play the Hotel Cafe on a night that also fetures Ry […]
Is there something overweight about this Tuesday? ‣ Minneapolis’ Polica, the new project from Gayngs’ Ryan Olson and singer Channy Casselle, bring their dreamy psychedelia to the Bootleg Bar, where Pollyn and the One AM Radio open. Polica just released its debut album “Give You the Ghost,” and that’s the new video for “Amongster,” above. […]
