Good shows big and small tonight: ‣ Lucinda Williams plays the first of two nights at the El Rey Theatre behind her powerful new album “Blessed.” ‣ Manchester’s Wu Lyf hits the Troubadour behind its Pitchfork-approved debut release “Go Tell Fire to the Mountain,” with Crystal Antlers supporting. That’s Wu Lyf’s video for “Dirt,” above. […]
‣ Bob Mould, whose three decades in rock includes seminal bands such as Hüsker Dü and Sugar and an estimable catalog of solo work, is feted in the program “See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould” at Disney Hall. The program, hosted by veteran DJ Matt Pinfield, features […]
The Cure are taking the “album concert” to another level. The Goth forerunners are planning a “Relections” tour on which they will play their first three albums in their entirety at each show, followed by an encore of other favorites. The Los Angeles dates are Nov. 21, 22 and 23 at the Pantages Theatre, and […]
As night (and, mercifully, temperatures) fell on on the final day of Coachella, it was time for a festival-ending sampler platter. Since I’d seen My Bloody Valentine on Thursday at the El Rey Theatre, I ducked into the Mojave Tent, where U.K. four-piece the Horrors were doing their own take on gloomy, overarching shoegazer rock. […]
Headliners for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival include Paul McCartney, the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, the Killers, Franz Ferdinand and Morrissey. The festival just posted the full lineup for the three-day event April 17-19 in Indio. Among the other performers: X, Paul Weller, Amy Winehouse, Public Enemy, TV on the Radio, the Yeah […]
It’s late at night and I’m feeling ambient, and not a little bit twee — a good time to discover London-based singer-songwriter Erin Lang (a collaborator and co-founder of the upstart label 99X/10 with former Cure keyboardist Roger O’Donnell). On the Canadian-born singer’s recent EP, Jimmy Tamborello (wearing his Dntel hat) gives the remix treatment […]
[Where I was and where I wasn’t this past busy weekend …] I’m sure KROQ-FM threw one heck of a Christmas bash at the Gibson Amphitheatre this weekend, but the Cure’s MySpace-sponsored show at the Troubadour on Saturday night stole all the headlines. Strange to me that the Cure would play opposite the first night […]
