There are elegant chandeliers above the stage in the Champagne Room at Taix restaurant, and during a few of the sets on the Buzz Bands LA Stage on Saturday at Echo Park Rising, you worried for their health. Plenty of show-stealing transpired over the course of the afternoon and evening, and the highlights were many: […]
Chinatown welcomed the Year of the Horse over the weekend with a parade, pageantry and a healthy dose of local rock ’n’ roll – the latter coming via 11 bands performing on the Chinese New Year Festival’s Local Music Stage. On Saturday, the Happy Hollows and Parade of Lights closed out the stage amid showers […]
A strong Saturday night:Â ‣Â If you’re up for a night of free music and fun downtown, the Chinese New Year Festival kicks off at Chinatown’s Central Plaza tonight. The LA Weekly Live Music Stage featuring a Buzz Bands LA-curated lineup includes the Happy Hollows, Parade of Lights, Line & Circle, Raw Geronimo, A House for […]
Indie-rock provocateur Sarah Negahdari can be a shreddy, yelping, guitar-tapping agitator when she is fronting the trio the Happy Hollows, but her side project Pisces is not that. Here she explores psych-pop that occupies spacier, wall-of-sound territory. After releasing promising singles in 2001 and ’12, Pisces fell silent – Negahdari was busy with the Happy […]
The Happy Hollows, Parade of Lights and Act As If head up a huge lineup of local bands playing the LA Weekly Live Music Stage during the two-day Chinese New Year Festival in Chinatown on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1 and 2. The festivities welcoming the Year of the Horse include the 115th Golden Dragon […]
Happy middle of the week. Here’s your Wednesday: ‣ Minneapolis’ Polica visits the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “Shulamith,” just out on Mom+ Pop Records. Marijuana Deathsquads open. ‣ Back with a new EP titled “AHJ,” Albert Hammond Jr. holds forth at the El Rey Theatre, with Rathborne opening. That’s the new video for […]
Incoming: Chvrches, Body Parts, SOHN, Against Me!, Ben Harper, Beth Orton, Deptford Goth, Jessie Ware, Neil Finn, Graham Nash, Alice Glass, Albert Hammond Jr., Polica, the Happy Hollows, Moonface, Norma Jean, Autolux, Drake, John Vanderslice, Prima Donna, Screaming Females, Obits, Over the Rhine, Cayucas, Anthony Green, the Black Crowes, Thomas Dolby, the Handsome Family, EOTO, […]
Sunset what? Echo Park Rising, the upstart neighborhood celebration of music that emerged when the long-running Sunset Junction festival went bust, expanded to two days this year, and early returns were that the festival was a smash hit. From the outdoor stage at Taix to the Echo and Echoplex to smaller rooms all over the […]
The crowd was decidedly old-school on Wednesday night at the Satellite, peppered with once-a-monthers who used to be thrice-a-weekers back in the days three or four or five years ago when Silver Lakers were united in the opinion the Happy Hollows could be the next big thing. They still could, but to their credit the […]
A sweet Wednesday night of shows: ‣ The Happy Hollows celebrate the release of their sophomore album “Amethyst” with a show at the Satellite, supported by Nightmare Air and Son of Stan. ‣ Manchester rockers the 1975, whose self-titled debut is on the way Sept. 10, headline the Troubadour, supported by Bad Suns. That’s the […]
