Tonight in L.A.: Ariel Pink’s, the Black Keys, Robyn Hitchcock, the Big Pink, Zola Jesus, the Offspring, the Maccabees, the Helio Sequence, Dr. Dog, the Head & the Heart, She Wants Revenge, Jason Mraz
Our frantic Friday: ‣ Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti headlines the Fonda Theatre behind its new album “Mature Themes” (that’s the video for “Only in My Dreams,” above). Bodyguard and Dam-Funk support. ‣ Filter magazine’s Culture Collide continues at various venues in Echo Park, tonight’s lineup highlighted by the Big Pink, School of Seven Bells, Zola […]
Culture Collide, Filter magazine’s four-day tour de Echo Park, has announced set times. The third annual festival brings 60-plus artists representing 25 countries to stages big and small in the Eastside neighborhood, capped by a free block party in and around Taix French restaurant on Sunday featuring Of Montreal, the Wombats, School of Seven Bells […]
Of Montreal, which has a rarities collection titled “Daughter of Cloud” on the way (Oct. 23, Polyvinyl), will join the Wombats, the Big Pink, Zola Jesus, Diiv, Niki & the Dove and Dean Wareham at the top of the bill for this year’s Culture Collide Festival, Oct. 4-7 at multiple venues throughout Echo Park. Junip […]
Tonight in L.A.: Wild Flag, Gotye, the Big Pink, Santigold, Pulp, Frankie Rose, Nico Vega, School of Seven Bells, Spindrift, CSS, Buddy
Another massive night of Coachella “sandwich” shows, and some other gems: ‣ Wild Flag, the all-star quartet featuring Carrie Brownstein [pictured] and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) along with Mary Timony (Helium) and Rebecca Cole (the Minders), was one of our Week 1 Coachella highlights. They join two other artists playing the two weekends in the desert, […]
Contributor Scott Dudelson shares images from all around Saturday’s second day of Coachella 2012, including some performance that we could not make because of conflicts. Concert photography by Scott Dudelson
The new material from Best Coast – whose sophomore album “The Only Place” arrives May 15 – seems soaked in “woe-is-me” and “I-don’t-know,” but there was no lack of certitude Friday at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, where the L.A. quartet was second-billed at the annual SPIN party during South by Southwest.
[Recent remixes that have tickled our ears … ] The Big Pink, “Stay Gold (araabMUZIK remix)” – The single “Stay Gold” from the U.K. duo’s forthcoming album “Future This” (out January 2012 via 4AD) packs in an extra noteworthy punch by way of producer AraabMuzik. Even with the hip hop influences, this remix reminds shoegazers […]
When the Big Pink blasted onto the scene in 2009 with the industrial-strength electro on “A Brief History of Love,” a whole bunch of shoegazer hearts fell like “Dominos.” It’s taken a while, but the U.K. duo of Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell are returning with a second album, “Future This,” which will come out […]
What has it been – more than two years since IO Echo began mesmerizing L.A. audiences with its haunting, Goth-tinged shoegaze? The duo of Leopold Ross and Ioanna Gika took their act on the road before it was really fully formed, but they’ve spent the past year supporting the likes of Florence + the Machine, […]
Who: The Big Pink at the Mojave Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Falling like dominos. I’ll Forget All But One Song By the Time I Walk Back to the Main Stage Because: The Big Pink, one of the U.K. bands that did not fall victim to volcanic ash-related travel problems (they’re on a seven-week […]
