Incoming: Beach Goth, Green Day, Tegan and Sara, Pond, the Temper Trap, Willie Nelson, Patti Smith, James Blake, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Taking Back Sunday, the Faint, Garbage, Young the Giant, the Drums, R. Kelly, Jimmy Eat World
Also on Thursday: Mac DeMarco, Youth Brigade, the Boxer Rebellion, Criminal Hygiene, the Motels, Greg Felden, Enrique Bunbury
NYC quartet the Dig visit L.A. this week with a batch of new music, their first since releasing twin EPs in 2013. They’re remembered fondly from their L.A. residency that summer.
Incoming: The Cure, the Who, James Blake, Tech N9ne, Coasts, HAIM, Ben Folds, Damien Jurado, Phases, Mac DeMarco, Yuna, the Thermals, Pvris, Rudimental, Wild Nothing, Deserted at the Palms, Jennylee, Nada Surf, Frightened Rabbit and more.
Take your pick on this fantastic Friday: ‣ U.K. soul outfit Jungle, whose self-titled debut was leased in July, visits the Fonda Theatre, supported by Beaty Heart. Above, their video for “Time.” ‣ Katy Perry brings her big stage show to Staples Center. Tegan & Sara open. ‣ Scottish electro trio Chvrches party the Hollywood […]
Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Jane’s Addiction, Failure, Cold War Kids, Empire of the Sun, Mayer Hawthorne, Tarfest, Hunter Hunted, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Mosco Rosco, Fenech-Soler, Soft Swells, Rise Against, Andrew Belle, Daedelus, Karen O, Buzzbocks, Coldplay, Train, De Lux, Magic Mirror, Vulpeck, Augustines, Chuck Ragan, Cheap Trick, Diana Ross, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, […]
Tuesday’s touts: ‣ AFI – back this week with “Burials,” its first new album since 2009, headlines the Fonda Theatre, with Touche Amore opening. ‣ Dream-pop trio Au Revoir Simone visits the Echoplex behind its new album “Move in Spectrums” [we shared the video for “Somebody Who,” here”]. Sophia Knapp, CALLmeKAT and My Hawaii support. […]
A heavy-duty Thursday: ‣ Joseph Arthur visits the Troubadour behind his ambitious new album “The Ballad of Boogie Christ,” a psych-soul record with horns, back-up singers and roots, conceptually, in David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character. Ben Haper and Juliette Lewis are expected to play in Arhthur’s band tonight. Above, the slideshow video for “All the […]
Incoming: Camera Obscura, John Grant, Alice Smith, 3OH!3, Peter Tork, Pitbull, Mount Kimbie, Eleanor Friedberger, Kinks’ Tribute, Ida Maria, Kisses, Warships, Joseph Arthur, Vans Warped Tour, Steve Miller Band, Holy Folk, the Dig, Tilly & the Wall, Sea Wolf, La Santa Cecilia, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Jonathan Wilson, Bleu, the Game, Iris DeMent, […]
New York City-based quartet the Dig made plenty of friends in Los Angeles last July, when they summered here and pulled a residency at the Silverlake Lounge. The fact that the foursome of David Baldwin, Emile Mosseri, Erick Eiser and Mark Demiglio brought with them an armload of propulsive, dreamy rock ’n’ roll didn’t hurt, […]
