Incoming: HARD Summer, the Strokes, Flight of the Conchords, the Jayhawks, Modest Mouse, the Melvins, Augustines, the National, Tyga, Protoje, Sinkane, Elohim, Magic Giant, Chris Isaak, Duran Duran, Bonnie Raitt, Woods, Honeyhoney and more.
The Strokes’ only L.A. appearance this year will be a show benefiting three local charities — July 25 at the Wiltern.
Catfish and the Bottlemen have released a new single, “Soundcheck,” ahead of their new album, “The Ride,” due out May 27. They play tonight in the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever.
Reviews: The Strokes, Haim, Blood Orange, Tanlines, Mac DeMarco, Kindness, Pink Mountaintops.
Because there’s not enough happening around the USC campus today, there’s a yoga show at the Shrine Expo Center, in case you want to skip FYF: ‣ Day 2 of this year’s FYF Fest goes off at the L.A. Sports Arena & Exposition Park, featuring the Strokes [above], Haim, the Blood Brothers, Flying Lotus, Blood […]
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 […]
Is it me, or does this song barely sound like the Strokes? “One Way Trigger” was just posted on the band’s website, ostensibly a song from the New Yorkers’ forthcoming fifth album. Maybe they got in a wrestling match with a New Wave band and lost? Maybe they’re becoming a New Wave band? Maybe I’m […]
Heard on the street, jotted in my notebook: ‣ Word on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake is that L.A.-based Evan Voytas, whose fuzzy pop is equal parts synth, soul and space, will be releasing an EP in October on Dovecote Records, home to Hooray for Earth and Wise Blood, among others. Voytas recently returned from […]
Who: The Strokes on the main stage In 3 or Fewer Words: Statute of limitations. I’ll Remember This Until: I find something to expunge the memory of Julian Casablancas marveling, bro-like, about how there was “a lot of tail out here” at Coachella. A magazine writer reported, via Twitter, spotting two young people fornicating in […]
Julian Casablancas’ residency at the Downtown Palace Theatre got off to a visually dazzling and sonically rip-roaring start on Friday night. My review of the Strokes frontman’s solo turn for SPIN.com is now up. Above, Casablancas does the Strokes rarity “I’ll Try Anything Once,” stumbing a bit on the lyrics.
