Your sizable song-filled Saturday touts: ‣ Aimee Mann [pictured above] returns with her traditional Christmas show over at the Wiltern with friends such as Paul F Tompkins, Michael Penn, Tim Heidecker, and many more. ‣ NYC’s Cavemen plays another SoCal show at Orange County’s Detroit Bar with support from L.A.’s Races. [Check out their video […]
Your Sunday evening possibilities: ‣ Their new album “No Witch” just out in February, the Cave Singers, joined by Lia Ices and Frank Fairfield, play an early show (7 p.m.) at the Autry Museum. ‣ French pop trio Revolver does a free instore at Amoeba (5 p.m.) ‣ And New Zealand’s Street Chant was apparently […]
Slow Club, the U.K. duo gaining attention for its quavering folk-pop, makes its L.A. debut tonight at Spaceland. The band’s debut album “Yeah So” is due March 30 on Moshi Moshi Records. … More beautiful folk at the Troubadour, where Dawes, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons and Jason Boesel perform. … It’ll be considerably […]
[We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.] Haven’t had a chance until now to tout the new Cave Singers’ sophomore album, “Welcome Joy” [download below], a nice slice of laid-back folk that came out in August. The Seattle band hits the Echo tonight. … Swedish quartet Sahara Hotnights kind of vanished from my radar […]
[I’m a few days ahead of myself, but I would be remiss if I did not point out that the Cure’s headlining set Sunday at Coachella falls two days before Robert Smith’s 50th birthday. Let’s all get our eyeliner just so, OK?] Buzz Bands is in Indio, where highs are forecast in the upper 80s […]
