Also: Battles, Aer, People Under the Stairs, Zac Brown Band, C.C. Catch & the Bad Boys Blue, JR JR, R. Kelly, The Bird and the Bee, Daniel Romano, Aquilo, The Wild Reeds, OYLS
Including: Ariel Pink, the Black Lips, Rudimental, Charlie XCX, Beirut, Julia Holter, Ben Howard, Paul Weller, Telekinesis, Garbage, Culture Collide, the Fratellis, the Bangles, Festival Supreme, Don Henley, Battles, JR JR, My Morning Jacket.
Boy-meets-girl in the karaoke-themed video for the title track from the L.A. duo’s fourth album.
A Saturday afternoon of music also features Run River North, the Colourist, Freedom Fry and Attic Empire. It’s free and all-ages.
In the music she has made with Touché and Obi Best, Alex Lilly’s production has leaned toward the jazzy and left-field while her lyrical themes ventured into the playful and subversive. The singer-songwriter’s next step is to release music under her own name — and today she unveiled the funky new gem “Paranoid Times,” which […]
“You have no idea what I do during the day,” singer Inara George told a rather giddy crowd Tuesday night at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. If you didn’t know any better — or if you’d seen the promo photos for the Bird and the Bee’s forthcoming album “Recreational Love” — you’d think it […]
Tuesday’s shows: ► The Wombats headline the Fonda Theatre in support of their latest album “Glitterbug.” Fellow Brits A Life in Film, whose debut “Here It Comes,” came out last week, and Philadelphia’s Cheerleader open. ► Dead Sara rocks the Troubadour, the first of two-sold out nights there, behind their new album “Pleasure to Meet […]
The Bird and the Bee’s sophisti-pop imagines a world where meticulous application of eyeliner is favored over face paint, designer cocktails trump designer hallucinogenics and “retro” is something of a class distinction. The duo — singer Inara George and multi-instrumentalist/all-star producer Greg Kurstin — haven’t released any original music since 2009’s “Ray Guns Are Not […]
Have a solid Monday: ► The Bird and the Bee, their new album “Recreational Love” coming in July, does the first of two sold-out nights at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ► The Moth & the Flame and Freedom Fry continue their co-residency at the Echo, with Irontom warming things up. ► At […]
Incoming: KROQ Weenie Roast, Joshua Tree Music Festival, L.A. Vegan Beer & Food Festival, the Bird and the Bee, Cillie Barnes, the Moth & the Flame, Lapsley, Golden Coast, A House for Lions, Dead Sara, Sepultura, Reggie Watts, Sick of Sarah, the Wombats, Nick Mulvey, Waka Flocka Flame, Torres, Elvis Perkins, Thrice, Froth, the Temperance […]
