What a party Saturday’s 14th annual Eagle Rock Music Festival turned out to be. Recent LA Weekly coverboy the Gaslamp Killer tearing it up on the Stones Throw Stage … Imperial Teen (est. 1996) cracking wise about playing the Emerging Artists Stage … Helicopters circling and people on the rooftops for the performance of “Bizarre […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ The Eagle Rock Music Festival, with Imperial Teen, the Henry Clay People, La Sera, Peanut Butter Wolf and a performance of “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde,” goes off along Colorado Boulevard many more. See updated schedule. ‣ Filter magazine’s Culture Collide with Of Montreal, Icona Pop, Niki and the Dove and many […]
When does an identity crisis become an existential crisis? Somewhere in the two thrashing minutes of the Henry Clay People’s “The Fakers,” that’s where. “Our mothers and fathers gave us faces no one remembers,” Joey Siara rages in the song, from the L.A. punk-rock quartet’s equally raging new album “Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our […]
Stay cool, stay calm, hydrate: ‣ It’s time for the fifth annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, with Marilyn Manson, the Offspring, Steve Aoki, Bad Religion, Black Label Society, Far East Movement, De La Soul and more playing on the outdoor stages and clubs shows featuring Wax, Das Racist, Wallpaper, Matt Skiba, Love & a .38, […]
Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Rock the Bells, Grandaddy, the Kills, Alabama Shakes, Michael Kiwanuka, Dead Can Dance, Regina Spektor, Peter Murphy, Neil Diamond, Amadou & Miriam, HoneyHoney, the Henry Clay People, Zola Jesus, Fun., Filter and more. Above: Peter Murphy, the 55-year-old “Godfather of Goth,” recently told the Sunset Strip Music Festival blog that […]
Jotted on a napkin while free-associating with the Henry Clay People’s album “Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives,” coming out June 26 on TBD Records: We know that what we are doing is transitory, and we will very likely – although reluctantly – grow out of it. We know that what we are doing […]
Your Wednesday show picks: ‣ Portugal. The Man, which recently wrapped up another big tour behind last year’s album “In the Mountains In the Clouds,” visit UCLA’s Royce Hall for a concert also featuring Haim and The Ten Thousand. ‣ Rocco DeLuca headlines the Satellite behind his haunting new album “Drugs ’N Hymns.” ‣ Xander […]
Nothing mundane about this Monday: ‣ If this isn’t the most helter-skelter It’s a School Night ever, you can slap my hand with a ruler. On the bill (chronologically) for the RSVP-only night at Bardot are Malibu-bred beach-vibe duo Brandon & Leah; followed by Bobby Woods’ horn- and string-laden Les Deux Love Orchestra featuring special […]
