Tonight in L.A.: The Orwells, the Lonely Wild, Kraftwerk, Galactic, Milagres/Boogarins, INVSN, Lost in the Trees, the Belle Game, Nobunny, Ballerina Black, the Moth & the Flame, Yellow Red Sparks
It’s a monstrous Thursday: ‣ It’s a big Burgerama warmup show at the Observatory – the Orwells, Twin Peaks, Corners, Thee Rain Cats, Bronch,  L.A. Witch, Criminal Hygiene and more rock the O.C. venue in preparation for the Saturday/Sunday festival there. That’s the Orwells’ video for “The Righteous One,” above. ‣ Kraftwerk continue their tour de catalog, playing “Computer […]
Your Wednesday things to do: ‣ Nashville quintet Wild Cub – its independently released album “Youth” just re-released via Mom + Pop Records (and its single “Thunder Clatter” picking up steam – visits the Bootleg Theater. Above, Wild Cub’s video for “Drive.” ‣ Singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco, his new album “Salad Days” on the way in […]
Happy Saturday (we think): ‣ Darkside – DJ Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington – visit the Fonda Theatre behind their acclaimed debut “Psychic.” ‣ Local quintet the Lonely Wild brings their effusive indie Americana to the Bootleg Bar, supported by Dark Furs and White Dove at the Bootleg Bar ‣ Canadian producer Ryan Hemsworth […]
Incoming: Justin Timberlake, Gilby Clarke, Islands, Josh Ritter, Tom Brosseau, Betty Who, Goldie, Eagles, Cloud Control, Max Bemis, Faith Evans, Sarah Jarosz, RL Grime, Imagine Dragons, Francisco the Man, Dent May, Belmont Lights, Of Montreal, Afternoons, Jake Buggs, Trombone Shorty, STS9, Machine Gun Kelly, Wodden Shjips, Prefuse 73, Bart Davenport, Robert Glasper Experiment, Great White, […]
The best and the rest of Wednesday: ‣ Rosanne Cash, appearing with John Leventhal, plays songs from her new album “The River and the Thread” (out next week) at the Troubadour. ‣ Pop provocateur Ethan Gold headlines the Bootleg Bar, playing his 2011 gem “Songs From a Toxic Apartment” in its entirety – and projecting […]
Preface: More than 200 Los Angeles-sired albums landed on Buzz Bands LA’s doorstep this year, and they came in all sounds and styles. There is something to recommend in a startling number of them. But to avert writing the same introduction I did last year, I will simply say, in dispensing with the notion of […]
Tonight in L.A.: Nine Inch Nails, Mike Doughty, Alejandro Escovedo, Lamb of God, the Lonely Wild, Liam Gowing, Crocodiles, Mirror Talk, Tired Pony, Lady Sinatra, RAC, Keller Williams, Harper Blynn
Fun for your Friday: ‣ Nine Inch Nails play Staples Center behind their new album “Hesitation Marks.” Hard to believe the band had never performd on network TV until last night’s appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” ‣ Roots music legend Alejandro Escovedo does a headlining date at the Mint. ‣ Mike Doughty, whose latest album […]
Incoming: Desaparecidos, Charli XCX, Deerhoof, Diego Garcia, Geographer, Teen Daze, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Bolts, the Lonely Forest, Destroyer, Meat Puppets, Switchfoot, Atlas Genius, Blink 182, Selena Gomez, the Parson Red Heads, Blitzen Trapper, Crocodiles, Mazzy Star, the Gaslamp Killer, Those Darlins, Tired Pony, the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Jonathan Wilson, GZA, the Lonely […]
With its vein-popping choruses and spaghetti Western-fueled arrangements, the Lonely Wild’s debut album “The Sun As It Comes” is equal parts blood and dust. Those qualities come to life, or maybe death, in the quintet’s new video for their grandiose, 5 1/2-minute track “Buried in the Murder.” Out in the dusty landscape the Lonely Wild […]
If there was any hangover from Saturday’s massive first day of Echo Park Rising, it didn’t show on Sunday. The Lonely Wild, Body Parts, James Supercave and Hot As Sun gave exhilarating outdoor stage performances; Holy Folk played one of several memorable sets at the Echo; and not unlike the South by Southwest music festival, […]
