Incoming: Arcade Fire, HARD Day of the Dead, Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare, Ronnie Spector, Tori Kelly, Demi Lovato, Slayer, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Bonobo, Danny Elfman, Megadeth, CocoRosie, the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, Iron & Wine, the Cartel, Andy Clockwise, Geronimo Getty, the Neighbourhood, Gov’t Mule, Lewis Watson, Hiatus Kaiyote, Kirin J. Callinan, Falling in […]
Not sure anybody this far north on the Golden State Freeway has made a big deal of this, but the Doheny Days Festival – Sept. 8-9 at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point – has assembled a formidable lineup including Jane’s Addiction, the Flaming Lips, Jimmy Eat World and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. […]
On Thursday, I relayed the story of how Nick Logie, Ashleigh Allard and Adam Ashe drove 22 hours from L.A. to Oklahoma City to knock on Wayne Coyne’s door and give him their HOTT MT album as a birthday present. The stunt turned into a 4 1/2-day stay at Coyne’s compound, during which the young […]
Talk about your crazy stunts. Nick Logie of L.A. indie-rockers Telegram, his girlfriend Ashleigh Allard and their pal Adam Ashe last week drove 22 hours to Oklahoma City to deliver a birthday present to the home of Flaming Lips main man Wayne Coyne. What happened last Friday when they arrived unannounced on his doorstep? I’ve […]
By Molly Bergen Hollywood Forever Cemetery was transformed into a Flaming Lips wonderland on Tuesday night. Electric icicles dripped from the trees, and a halved disco ball the size of a Volkswagen spun, suspended from scaffolding resembling a tambourine with giant silver hubcaps that spun with Christmas lights. Even the solemn mausoleums got jazzed up […]
‣ Folk harmonizers the Civil Wars punctuate a big week in L.A. (shows at Largo, Amoeba, and an appearance this morning on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic”) by headlining the El Rey Theatre. Opener James Vincent McMorrow (that’s his video for “Sparrow and the Wolf”) is worth your early arrival. ‣ The Flaming Lips do another […]
Cozy shows, crazy shows – we’ll start small and work our way big: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe features Luz Elena (pictured), Chris Accardo and Mark Lane. Luz Elena is the frontwoman of the Portland indie-folk Y La Bamba, and she’s in town working on material for a solo […]
[The second in the weekly Stolen Lyric series. Check out last week’s.] ||| Source: The Flaming Lips, “The Sound of Failure” ||| Live: The Flaming Lips perform Monday at the Greek Theatre and Tuesday at the Fox Theater in Pomona.
A friend recently pointed me in the direction of Maryland’s Cotton Jones – the nom de tune of Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw. How I’d missed their disarmingly beautiful throwback pop before I’ll never know, but their debut, 2007’s “The Cotton Jones Basket Ride,” and their two 2008 EPs were great revelations. Now the duo […]
My only quibble with “New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets” is the “tribute” part, which seems a bit presumptive. Call me stuffy, but only the truly seminal bands should get tributes; the good ones can be saluted, and the others, well, covered. In a decade-plus of tailoring the Bauhaus aesthetic to […]
