Incoming: Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Foo Fighters, Tarfest, Chinatown Moon Festival, Lobsterfest, Desert Stars Festival, Blonde Redhead, Glass Animals, Ringo Starr, Chelsea Wolfe, Mew, Paul Van Dyk, Brandon Flowers, Titus Andronicus, Silversun Pickups and more.
“Chasing White Light,” the sophomore album from the Los Angeles quintet, was produced by John Vanderslice and will be out Oct. 4.
Your Tuesday night agenda: ► San Diego goth/electro/industrial outfit Prayers, whose album “Young Gods” is just out on Travis Barker’s LaSalle Records, celebrate the release with a show at the Roxy, supported by Death March and MXMS. Above, Prayers’ video for the title track. The sold-out show will be webcast here. ► Texas singer-songwriter Robert […]
Incoming: Chinatown Summer Nights, Lolipalooza, Until the Ribbons Breaks, Oberhofer, Hunny, Tennis System, the Crash Kings, Tashaki Miyaki, Client Liaison, Prayers, PPL MVR, Little Red Lung, the Vonneguts, the Lonely Wild, Ed Sheeran, Nate Ruess, Bilal, the Very Best, Emily Kinney, the Gears, Bell Biv Devoe, Bad Rabbits, Houndmouth, Vic Mensa, Los Crudos, Algiers, Young […]
Ryn Weaver, the Lonely Wild, Cathedrals, Two Girls, Typesetter, the Lowest Pair, Tom Brosseau, Dead Leaf Echo, Natalie Prass “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” — Kurt Vonnegut (Typewritten message given to me by a performance artist […]
“Running,” the new single from the Lonely Wild, starts in a walk, with Jessi Williams’ mournful violin, then breaks into a trot and finally charges, seemingly into battle, with the cry “Don’t stop running!” It’s a typically sanguine outlook from the quintet of Andrew Carroll, Dave Farina, Ryan Ross, Andrew Schneider and Williams, whose brazen […]
‣ The annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas returns for its 25th year. Day 1, which is happening at the Forum, features a lineup that includes Linkin Park, Rise Against, Incubus, Bush, System of a Down, Fall Out Boy, Walk the Moon, New Politics and Royal Blood. ‣ The Lonely Wild headlines the Bootleg HiFi in celebration of “Holidays.” […]
Incoming: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Dave Stewart & Friends, Madi Diaz, Sego, Opeth, Augustana, Eric Hutchinson, Kan Wakan, Dear Boy, Eastern Conference Champions, JMSN, James Blake, Andrew Bird, Tune-Yards, the Ataris, Ryn Weaver, Big Search, FMLYBND, Kingdoms, Howie Day, Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Allah-Las, the Icarus Line, Black Belt Karate, Pepper, Gaby Moreno, De Lux, […]
“Just don’t freak out,” the Lonely Wild sings as they trade in tears for holiday cheer albeit the effort doesn’t last for long. The John Lange video doesn’t stick with the sugar coating to portray the peppermint and cinnamon-filled season. Instead, there are two stories here, one that is internal and the other that is […]
The Lonely Wild’s debut long-player “The Sun As It Comes” was filled with the kind of vein-bulging anthems about emotional duress and social upheaval that somehow made you feel better about the said conditions after you heard them. The quintet – Andrew Carroll, Jessi Williams, Andrew Schneider, Dave Farina and Ryan Ross – addresses different neuroses on […]
