Your Monday show options: ‣ Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden team up for a big show at the Hollywood Bowl. What it was like Friday night Irvine. ‣ Fresh off an appearance at FYF Fest, Midwestern post-hardcore outfit La Dispute rocks the El Rey Theatre. ‣ Clockwise heads up the lineup at It’s a School […]
‣ Ska-punk is apparently still going strong. L.A.-based quartet the Interrupters celebrate this week’s release of their Tim Armstrong-produced album with a show at the Roxy Theatre, supported by L.A. stalwarts Left Alone. Oceanside Sound System and HB Surround Sound also perform. Above, the Interrupters’ video for “A Friend Like Me.” ‣ Freedom Fry [see […]
Incoming: The Interrupters, the Futures League, Mauldin Strangers, Smoke Season, Tete, Liam Bailey, Mother, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beardyman, Figs Cision, Wild Cub, Herbie Hancock, Christopher Owens, Spoon, Deer Tick, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Coathangers, Deep Purple, Haim, Arctic Monkeys, the Haden Triplets, Eminem, Michael McDonald, Jagwar Ma, the Temper Trap, the Good […]
Gabrielle Wortman and Jason Rosen – the L.A.-based duo known as Smoke Season – stage their sultry, mysterious single “Badlands” in a forlorn desert outpost in the lush new video for the song. Directed by Scott Fleishman and produced by APLUSFILMZ, “Badlands” finds our protagonists wrestling with their demons in Joshua Tree National Park – somebody gets […]
Smoke Season, the duo comprised of L.A. musicians Gabrielle Wortman (TEMP3ST) and Jason Rosen (Honor Society), returns with a new single to follow up their “Signals” EP. “Badlands,” a track that still teases with their smoky Americana ambience, is a lush arrangement that lingers just 10 seconds over four minutes. Wortman’s soulful wails and Rosen’s […]
‣ HARD Summer Festival continues over at the Los Angeles State Historic Park with Justice (DJ set), Empire of the Sun [that’s their video for “Alive” above], Flosstradamus, Azealia Banks, Crystal Castles, Bassnectar, Dillon Francis, Baauer, Claude Vonstroke, Busy P and many more. ‣ Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros headlines the Hollywood Bowl where […]
Happy Sunday: ‣ King of R&B R. Kelly headlines a night at the Staples, but supporting acts aren’t too shabby either… New Edition and the Jacksons, anyone? ‣ Gospel singer Kirk Franklin has a big night at Club Nokia. ‣ Damian Marley, Stephen Marley, Third World and the Ghetto Youths Crew take over the Hollywood Bowl. ‣ Smoke Season [Check […]
Quite a Saturday we have for you: ‣ Say you love ’em? Fleetwood Mac play to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl. ‣ Norwegian punk outfit Turbonegro rock the El Rey Theatre, supported by Tweak Bird. ‣ Bay Area indie-pop quartet Imperial Teen returns to the Satellite – their great 2012 album “Feel the Sound” is coming […]
New York City-born, UCLA-educated singer Gabrielle Wortman launched her career as rock frontwoman before segueing to the electronic project Tempest (aka TEMP3ST). However, upon meeting fellow New Yorker Jason Rosen – the ex-keyboardist and guitarist for the pop-rockers Honor Society – things took a turn. And from the sound of their new side project Smoke […]
