Incoming: Make Music Pasadena, Ink-N-Iron Festival, the Preatures, Hugh Laurie, French Style Furs, Until the Ribbon Breaks, Nacosta, Joel Jerome & Babies On Acid, Gold Star, Justin Hayward, Hudson, Johnnyswim, Electric Wire Hustle, Trans Am, the Squids, Them Howling Bones, Gabriel Kahane, Dan Suga, Timber Timbre, Tijuana Panthers, Bear Attack, Adan Valdez, Kelis, Barry Gibb, […]
Maybe it’s the musical climate or maybe it’s the time the band spent with production svengali Richard Swift in Oregon, but Tijuana Panthers appear poised to break free of their surf-garage-rock chains. The Long Beach trio’s new album “Wayne Interest” comes via Innovative Leisure on June 3, about a year after 2013’s tight, retro-tasty outing […]
The First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum got all garage-y for April, with Mikal Cronin and his band, hair flying, holding forth with songs from last year’s album “MCII” and more. Long Beach trio Tijuana Panthers set the tone in the North American Mammal Hall with a dose of their taut surf-rock. Electro-pop […]
Mikal Cronin, whose 2013 album “MCII” earned plenty of well-deserved props, will play April 4 at the Natural History Museum as part of its First Fridays series. Tijuana Panthers will support. Tickets are on sale here. That’s Cronin’s video for “Peace of Mind,” above.
L.A. favorites FIDLAR, Allah-Las, Bleached, Together Pangea, Tijuana Panthers and Gap Dream will join the previously announced Black Lips as some of the more than 50 bands playing Burger Records’ Burgerama 3 on March 22-23 at the Observatory in Orange County. The Black Lips will headline the first day, which also features Death, Nobunny, the […]
It was a massive night for L.A.-based Innovative Leisure Records on Friday at the El Rey Theatre. It was also a huge night for sweat. Three of IL’s artists (that’s about 20 percent of the roster) brought their blood-pounding rock to the El Rey, headed up by Hanni El Khatib, touring behind the sophomore album, […]
Incoming: Arcade Fire, HARD Day of the Dead, Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare, Ronnie Spector, Tori Kelly, Demi Lovato, Slayer, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Bonobo, Danny Elfman, Megadeth, CocoRosie, the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, Iron & Wine, the Cartel, Andy Clockwise, Geronimo Getty, the Neighbourhood, Gov’t Mule, Lewis Watson, Hiatus Kaiyote, Kirin J. Callinan, Falling in […]
It got wild and woolly Thursday night at the Santa Monica Pier for this week’s edition of the 29th annual Twilight Concert Series. L.A. noisemeisters No Age, with a new album “An Object” on the way, ripped through a set, preceded by surf-punks Tijuana Panthers, whose new album “Semi-Sweet” came out in May. The Panthers’ […]
Some nights, you just wanna recommend everything … ‣ If you’re an indie-rock fan and you’ve been wondering about the FIGat7th Downtown Festival, tonight’s your night – PAPA, NO and LA Font team up for a show on the plaza at the downtown L.A. retail center. ‣ It’s a blast at the beach as Modest […]
Forays for the last day of May: ‣ Suddenly huge Scottish electro trio CHVRCHES, with only this year’s “Recover” EP to their credit (they are currently mixing their full-length), hold forth at the Fonda Theatre, with London duo Still Corners opening. [Chvrches at the Echo in March.] ‣ Tijuana Panthers celebrate the release of their […]
