Also on Friday: Ghostface Killah, Porches, Hot Flash Heat Wave, Faith Healer, Convey, Current Joys, Cutty Flam, the Naked and Famous, She Wants Revenge, Cifika, Walk Off the Earth, Coin
Incoming: Gogol Bordello, k.d. lang, SYML, U.S. Girls, Architects, Billie Eilish, Talib Kweli, Albert Hammond Jr., Son Lux, Jawbreaker, Lord Huron, Mt. Joy, Drugdealer, Run River North, Glen Hansard, Steve Aoki, Coin, Porches, Current Joys, Moaning, Ghostface Killah, Eden, Protomartyr, the Wedding Present, New Politics, Antibalas, ZZ Ward
Luna Shadows’ latest single meditates on the fleeting nature of all relationships. It the second song the dream-pop siren has released since last summer’s debut EP.
Also on Tuesday: Dream Boys, Princess Nokia, the Electric West, Ramonda Hammer, the Golden Tongues
A mighty enticing Thursday night of shows: ‣ Forty-six years after the release of their masterful album “Odessey and Oracle, the Zombies (with just two original members, Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent, steering the ship) play the Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier. Mystic Braves open. ‣ Transcendent Canadian punks (and how often […]
Incoming: FYF Fest, Beatles’ 50th with Dave Stewart, John Legend, Reckless Kelly, Avid Dancer, High on Fire, the Four Seasons, Frankmusik, Myron & E, SOJA, Horse Thief, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Future Islands, Rick Springfield, Hawthorne Heights, Quilt, Little Daylight, Black Gatsby, SD3, Tanlines, Mikky Echo, Lake Street Dive, the Zombies, Fucked Up, Blood Orange, the […]
Kiwi band the Naked and Famous didn’t have trouble keeping the momentum once they released their smash hit “Young Blood” off their debut “Passive Me, Aggressive You” back in 2011. Singles such as “Punching in a Dream” kept fans of electronica, post-punk and dream-pop near before they launched into songs like “Hearts On Fire” off of […]
It’s a wicked-good Wednesday: ‣ New Zealand’s the Naked and Famous headline the Wiltern, supported by Now, Now [see yesterday’s post] and Vacationer. That’s the Naked and Famous’ video for “No Way,” above. ‣ NYC’s Yellow Ostrich visits the Bootleg Theater behind its sophomore album “Strange Land” on a night that will also feature the […]
[Here’s Claudine V. with our look ahead to next week’s shows, along with the video for “Calling Me Names” by Good Old War, playing next Sunday at the Avalon:] Incoming: The Temper Trap, Nada Surf, Sharon Van Etten, Of Montreal, the Naked and Famous, Lucero, the Magnetic Fields, the Ting Tings, the Lumineers, Y La […]
The Naked and Famous’ album title “Passive Me, Aggressive You” certainly applied Tuesday night the at the Music Box. The New Zealand popsters surveyed their candy-coated electro to a sold-out crowd of aggressively adoring fans who’ve found a place for the Kiwis’ confections alongside their MGMT and Passion Pit records. L.A.’s White Sea, the solo […]
