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
Also: Zac Brown Band, Song Dongye, Tom Morello, Vulfpeck, Dark Star Orchestra, Duke Dumont, Autre Ne Veut, Funeral Party, Little Red Lung, Line & Circle
By Chris McRitchie U.K. quartet the Darkness often inspires spirited debate over where to draw the line between parody and reality, and what makes a band too cheeky. There was no time for such discussions on Wednesday night at Club Nokia during a show that was broadcast live on AXS TV. Everybody was too busy […]
Winging it on a Wednesday: ‣ U.K. quartet the Darkness rocks Club Nokia behind its comeback album “Hot Cakes.” You want camp? You should check out the video for “Everybody Have a Good Time,” which we can’t quite bring ourselves to post here ‣ Joss Stone visits the Wiltern behind her new album “The Soul […]
Incoming: Bob Dylan, Kaki King, Mika, Jason Lytle, Shiny Toy Guns, Beth Orton, Toadies, Taking Back Sunday, Joss Stone, Calexico, the Darkness, RZA, Motion City Soundtrack, Two Door Cinema Club, Matt & Kim, Tiger Army, Matthew Dear, Flying Lotus, Z-Trip, Jane’s Addiction, the Presets, Macklemore Above: Northern Irish rock band Two Door Cinema Club play […]
‣ Reunited British quartet the Darkness – Super Bowl ad placement under their arms and their first album since 2005 on the way – headline the sold-out House of Blues, with Foxy Shazam supporting. ‣ New Americana trio Broadcast Station headlines the Bootleg Bar, with David Rosales and Cave Country on the bill. Also:
Nobody told the Darkness the joke was over. The cartoonish Brits found more than 720,000 saps customers for their 2003 debut “Permission to Land” (it sold 1.3 million in the U.K.) before going quietly into the booze- and drug-filled night, its second album face-planting at 100,000 in sales and frontman Justin Hawkins ending up in […]
Hollywoody quartet the Dance Party makes the kind ’70s-leaning synth-rock that past generations used to take right up the nose. And who knows, maybe they still do, but the foursome, fronted by singer-schoolteacher (now there’s an alter ego) Mick Coogan, have dialed into to a pretty undeniable party vibe, executed more with a smile than […]
