Incoming: U2, Spoon, The Moth & the Flame, Freedom Fry, Cillie Barnes, Golden Coast, Refused, Kopecky, Two Sheds, Gold Star, Erick Macek, Aaron Watson, Dignitary, Neutral Milk Hotel, Knox Hamilton, Spirit Club, Bones Muhroni, Will Butler, Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler, Tori Kelly, King Tuff, L7, The Do, Flux Pavilion, Big Search, Little Red Lung, Josh […]
Your end of the weekend options: â–º Eleanor Friedberger opens night two of Tweedy (Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy and his son drummer Spencer Tweedy) at the Ace Hotel Theatre. â–º Back from SXSW, Of Montreal is at the Regent Theater with Yip Deceiver kicking off the night. â–º Playing songs from their new album “Dope Machines” […]
Incoming: The Juliana Hatfield Three, Conway, Ben Ottewell, Salt Petal, Kevin Seconds, Dugas, Safia, Layman, RedRumsey, Flogging Molly, Bad Lands, Redwood Still, Warm Thoughts, Brother Sal, Anthony Jeselnik, Liphemra, Sophia Knapp, Ani DiFranco, Pearl and the Beard, Henry Wolfe, Kingdoms, Bad Romantics, Saviors, Sand Babes, Anthony David & Algebra Blesset, Susanna Hoffs, The Dorian Cheah […]
The Airborne Toxic Event released a new album this week. “Dope Machines” arrived in the mail with a notice touting the L.A. quintet’s reinvention as an electro-pop band and something in the way of an artist’s statement from frontman Mikel Jollett: “We live in a world connected by these dope machines that do all this […]
Friday night’s flurry: â–º L.A. quintet the Airborne Toxic Event [pictured] preview songs from their forthcoming album “Dope Machines” (out Feb. 24) at the Troubadour. FAkers open. â–º Patti Smith returns for a second night at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. â–º Sam Smith is back for a second night at the Forum. â–º Australian […]
Incoming: The Ting Tings, Mates of State, Wolf Alice, Holychild, Wildling, the Fontaines, Hotel Hot Burrito, Ivory Deville, the Vaselines, Mini Mansions, Eric McFadden, Paul Bergmann, the Entrance Band, Blackbird Blackbird, Wale, We Are Scientists, the Hood Internet, Patti Smith, Sam Smith, Body/Head, the Warlocks, Crash Kings, the Haden Triplets, Brooke Fraser, Susanna Hoffs, Magic […]
The striking new video for the Bulls’ languid debut song “Come Unwound” is more about becoming unbound. But you can give them a little rope here – the Evan Mathis-directed video features the work of Kinbaku artist Master K of LA Rope Dojo. Kinbaku is a Japanese style of consensual bondage, and in the video, model […]
Thursday’s highlights: ‣ Homecoming for two bands who originally hail from southern California: Indie-rockers Delta Spirit headline the El Rey Theatre behind their new album “Into the Wide.” And Deep Sea Diver opens. ‣ The Airborne Toxic Event visits the Greek Theatre ‣ Citizen Cope is celelbrating the 10th anniversary of “The Clarence Greenwood Recordings” […]
Incoming: Ben Howard, Circa Waves, Rachael Yamagata, Faded Paper Figures, Delta Spirit, Ab-Soul, London Richards, Live, Shawn Mullins, the Rural Alberta Advantage, the Wild Feathers, B.o.B., the Soft White Sixties, Marilyn Manson, Betty Who, the Airborne Toxic Event, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Steve Aoki, the Stone Foxes, Nick Jonas, Citizen Cope, the Album Leaf, Queens […]
When the Bulls quietly debuted last March at Hemingway’s in Hollywood, it was almost a shock to the senses – seeing Anna Bulbrook without her usual musical appendage, the violin. Then the guitars kicked in and things got interesting, or at least atmospheric. Here, Bulbrook, the multi-instrumentalist and backup vocalist in the Airborne Toxic Event, […]
