Your spectacular Saturday: ‣ The Greek Theatre embraces nostalgia along with the start of summer with radical rock group the B-52s and pop legends Squeeze. ‣ Fool’s Gold continues the summer series in Pasadena with an outdoor show at Levitt Pavilion. ‣ It’s a stacked roster of pop at Universal City walk’s Gibson Amphitheatre with […]
[For your planning pleasure, here’s a straight-up list of what’s ahead this week, with our picks:] Incoming: Graffiti6, Warships, 2:54, the Heavy, Gardens & Villa, El-P, Keane, Jonathan Richman, the B-52’s, Squeeze, Mystery Jets, Foster the People, the Soft Pack, Standing Shadows and more. Our staff picks of the week: @KRBronson recommends: U.K. funk-soul dynamos […]
Featuring the Soft Pack, Princeton, Maya Jupiter, Incan Abraham, the Lonely Wild, Summer Twins and more Photographer Jeff Koga shares this gallery from Sunday’s Silver Lake Jubilee. Check it out after the jump:
For the middle day of your long weekend: ‣ The Roots (pictured), Booker T. Jones and Gary Clark Jr. highlight the lineup for the 26th annual UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival at Drake Stadium. ‣ Day 2 of the third annual Silver Lake Jubilee comes loaded with Aloe Blacc and the Soft Pack headlining the two […]
Our heads are spinning already … and two weeks of this to come: ‣ Madchester favorites James, with a deluxe boxed set “The Gathering Sound” (all 11 of their studio albums on USB stick, 3CDs, a DVD, vinyl and more – whew) on the way, play a pre-Coachella show at the El Rey Theatre. Elizaveta opens. […]
Your Oscar-night music agenda: ‣ Nineties indie-rock provocateurs Archers of Loaf are back, with a remastered, deluxe version of 1995’s “Vee Vee” just out on Merge and similar editions of “All the Nation’s Airports” and “White Trash Heroes” due later this year. Dipping into the Chapel Hill quartet’s vaults has yielded (previously only VHS) videos […]
‣ The Echo’s birthday month – the venue blows out 10 candles in December – swings into high gear with an Aquarium Drunkard-presented bill featuring the Soft Pack, Abe Vigoda, So Many Wizards and Slang Chickens. ‣ Genre-bending hometown heroes Ozomatli hold forth at Club Nokia. ‣ Sara Bareilles and Joshua Radin play to a […]
[Happy Buddy Holly Day … He would have been 75 today, and he will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this morning and a star-studded tribute concert tonight at the Music Box, which will be taped for a PBS special to air in December.] Fare for your muggy midweek: ‣ Viva Brother, […]
A festival and other festivities: ‣ Hard to believe there’s a better bargain than this year’s FYF Fest (especially if you bought your tickets at the screamin’-cheap presale rate). If the involvement this year of über-promoter Goldenvoice eliminates or even alleviates the embarrassing logistical problems of the past two years, FYF 2011 could be a […]
The Soft Pack and Hanni El Khatib accentuated the rock in the Also I Like to Rock series on Thursday night, delivering scorched-earth performances to a big crowd in the Hammer Museum courtyard. The Soft Pack previewed a handful of new songs the L.A. quartet has in the works for a new album, and Hanni […]
