Here’s your Thursday options: ‣ Queens of the Stone Age headline a sold-out show at the Wiltern in a show that will be webcast by NPR. ‣ L.A. indie-pop octet the Mowgli’s [pictured] whose major-label debut “Waiting for the Dawn” will be released June 18 on Photo Finish/Island Records, headline the Roxy Theatre, where they’ll […]
‣ Jens Lekman visits the Fonda Theatre behind his new album “I Know What Love Isn’t.” Opening: Taken By Trees, the solo venture of Victoria Bergsman of the Concretes, and Big Search, the solo venture of L.A.’s Matt Popieluch (Foreign Born, Fool’s Gold). That’s Lekman’s video for “Become Someone Else’s,” above. ‣ A Place To […]
Sunday things: ‣ Austin’s Shearwater, the band which features Okkervil River’s Jonathan Meiburg, brings their psychedelic folk rock to the Echo in support of their latest album “Animal Joy.” [That’s their video above for the “You As You Were.”] Fellow Sub Pop label mates and Aussies Husky will support. Hardly Art artist Gold Leaves opens […]
Soaking it up on the final Monday in March: ‣ Twenty-two-year-old electro whiz Nicolas Jaar plays his first official L.A. show at the Echoplex behind his 2011 album “Space Is Only Noise.” ‣ The Henry Clay People rock the Viper Room, supported by TS & the Past Haunts and the Mowgli’s. ‣ NO’s residency at […]
Big start to the week: ‣ One more night of Guns N’ Roses, this time at the House of Blues. ‣ Berlin-based Sascha Ring (pictured), whose latest album as Apparat “The Devil’s Walk” was lauded as one of the best electronic releases of the 2011, plays a full-band show at the El Rey Theatre. Apparat’s […]
A manic Monday, starting with four fine free residencies: ‣ Voxhaul Broadcast, the release of their debut album and a follow-up EP in 2011’s rear-view mirror, roar into 2012 with some new songs and the Satellite residency. Opening night features support from Eastern Conference Champions, sibling duo Blondfire and the Little Richard tribute band Big […]
‣ Bob Mould, whose three decades in rock includes seminal bands such as Hüsker Dü and Sugar and an estimable catalog of solo work, is feted in the program “See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould” at Disney Hall. The program, hosted by veteran DJ Matt Pinfield, features […]
Races started innocently enough. Frontman Wade Ryff, who’d been playing in the Janks, was asked by a friend to do a set of solo material he had in the works. “I thought, ‘My dream band – who would it be?’” the singer-guitarist says. “So I got on the phone and called the people I wanted. […]
Thursday’s menu: ‣ Irish rockers Two Door Cinema Club visit the Wiltern Theatre, with local quintet Grouplove opening. Above is Grouplove’s recent video for “Tongue Tied,” off its debut “Never Trust a Happy Song.” ‣ The Janks celebrate the release of their album “Hands of Time” with a show at the Bootleg Theater. American Tomahawk […]
L.A. rockers the Janks have stuffed a whole lot of rock history into their sack full of tunes “Hands of Time” (out Sept. 27) – so much, in fact, their debut album threatens to split at the seams. Classic rock, sprawling glam-tinged arrangements, shimmering balladry, blues stomps, lovingly twangy folk: The Janks’ principals, brothers Zack […]
