Sunday night, or “New Year’s Eve eve”: ‣ Ludacris and Kelly Rowland do a “pre-New Year’s Eve” party at Club Nokia. ‣ The Aggrolites bring their “dirty reggae” to Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach, where they’ll be joined by the Expanders and the Delirians. ‣ The Fixx, now into their fourth decade and just having […]
Incoming: Reverend Horton Heat, Social Distortion, Jane Monheit, Jeffertitti’s Nile, GRMLN, Donavon Frankenreiter, the Growlers, Fishbone, Erykah Badu, Father John Misty, Wanda Jackson, Peter Murphy, FMLY Fest, the Aggrolites, Wolfgang Gartner, Ludacris, the Fixx Above: So Many Wizards [see of tops-in-L.A. albums list] are one of about 50 artists playing this weekend’s FMLY Fest at […]
Thursday things: ‣ Part 1 of FMLY Fest – two days of music and communing thrown by the L.A. branch of the eco-conscious collective – goes off at Catnap (1726 N. Spring St. in Chinatown). We posted on the preview mixtape earlier this month. And there’s a very good lineup today, featuring Gangi, Gothic Tropic, […]
A quiet but not totally silent night on the club scene: ‣ The Aggrolites bring their dirty reggae to Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach. The hard-touring quintet this year released its fifth album, “Rugged Road” and are on a week-long mini-swing of SoCal venues that includes a date Thursday at the Key Club opening for […]
The 17th annual Vans Warped Tour stormed through southern California earlier this month for two of its 41 national dates, highlighted by performances from perennial Warped standouts Against Me!, “dirty reggae” rockers the Aggrolites, punk veterans Fear, roots-punkers Lucero and rejuvenated O.C. power-poppers Hellogoodbye. Here is a gallery of some of the action – Warped […]
[Birthday greetings to Tricky and Mike Patton, both born on this date in 1968:] Top shows to consider if you’re reading this instead of heading to the Viper Room for today’s 10 a.m. video shoot with Deep Dark Robot, Linda Perry’s new band: ‣ Quite a night ahead at the Echoplex – Israeli punk trio […]
[This weekend’s concert calendar is more crowded than the 405 on a Friday afternoon. Superstars, stars, shoulda-been-stars, rising stars, fading stars – this weekend has it all. And it’s topped off by Sunday’s performance at the Greek by modern-day supergroup Monsters of Folks … see below for the word on the street about that. Here’s […]
[A couple of noteworthy L.A. releases … with more on the way:] Foreign Born, “Person to Person” (Secretly Canadian) – About the 10th time through the L.A. quartet’s sophomore album – a grower if there ever was one – I had a vision that Foreign Born’s were the fingers plugging the dike that holds back […]
Coachella always starts so innocently. The vast expanse of green that is the Empire Polo Field, a cloudless sky, stately mountains in the distance, yawning stages eager to have their mouths full. Then a trickle of humanity that becomes a flow, then a beat that finds a melody, then banter that turns to shouts that […]
The South by Southwest Music Festival has announced a partial list of bands scheduled to perform at this year’s shindig (March 18-22). From L.A.’s neck of the woods: the Crystal Method, Dave Alvin, Franki Chan, LA Riots, Mandi Perkins, Mika Miko, Waz and Port O’Brien. … Meanwhile, there’s a bunch of interesting tours shaping up […]
