Incoming: Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Foo Fighters, Tarfest, Chinatown Moon Festival, Lobsterfest, Desert Stars Festival, Blonde Redhead, Glass Animals, Ringo Starr, Chelsea Wolfe, Mew, Paul Van Dyk, Brandon Flowers, Titus Andronicus, Silversun Pickups and more.
New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus on July 28 will release its fourth album, “The Most Lamentable Tragedy,” a 93-minute rock opera on manic depression and its various manifestations that ranks as the most epic work of punk rock since Fucked Up’s “David Comes to Life” in 2011. It’s visceral stuff, musically and thematically, and, says singer-songwriter […]
Wow, what a Thursday: ‣ The summer’s Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier winds up with a performance by the legendary Jimmy Cliff, along with the Delirians and Ethan Tucker. It certainly won’t the final party of the yer at the Pier – not with next weekend’s The Beach Ball festival and the […]
Incoming: Pixies, Meg Myers, Together Pangea, Austra, Ariana Grande, OneRepublic, Minus the Bear, MGMT, Julia Holter, the Mission UK, AFI, Boz Scaggs, ON AN ON, Meiko, St. Lucia, the Zombies, Jonathan Rice, Jimmy Cliff, Dave Stewart, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Body/Head, Titus Andronicus, AlunaGeorge, the Jacksons, Local Natives, Jose James, Morgan Page, Matt Wertz, Alice in […]
Road trip, anyone? Titus Andronicus, Milo Greene, Wild Nothing, Ra Ra Riot, the Features, Caveman and Pictureplane are among the featured performers in conjunction with the sixth annual San Diego Music Thing, a mini-South by Southwest-styled music conference held in the North Park district of San Diego. The festival runs Sept. 13-14, with New Politics […]
All this in one night? Wonder who’s in charge here … ‣ Seems like about 90% of the punk bands we currently care about are playing tonight in Los Angeles, although at different places. Let’s start with Titus Andronicus, whose new album “Local Business,” is just out. They headline the El Rey, with local heroes […]
Incoming: Leonard Cohen, Refused, Jens Lekman, A Place to Bury Strangers, Andrew W.K., Metz, Japandroids, Titus Andronicus, Cat Power, Delta Spirit, Smoking Popes, Barbra Streisand, Afghan Whigs, Minus the Bear, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Trail of Dead, Y La Bamba, Tilly & the Wall, Sea Wolf, Mumford & Sons, the Monkees, the Sea & Cake, […]
[Check out these new songs from three massive albums we anticipate this year…] Japandroids, “The House That Heaven Built” – When we last saw Japandroids play an FYF Fest set, they revealed a few new songs as they were busy recording their long-awaited follow-up their 2009 debut “Post-Nothing.” We finally have a taste of the […]
If you spent any part of last week in Austin for SXSW, it’s quite possible you’ve not yet recovered. If you spent much time at Mess With Texas – the three-day party co-sponsored by FYF Fest – we’re pretty sure you haven’t. The parties at the 1100 Warehouse featured explosive sets from Girls, Titus Andronicus, […]
@KRBronson on Thursday at SXSW (also see: Jesus and Mary Chain review): Arms makes indie-rock for people who like indie-rock, with sharp guitar and bass lines, sharper lyrics and arresting shifts in tempo and mood that toggle adeptly between nice and gnarly. Mastermind Todd Goldstein once played in Harlem Shakes, who had their 15 minutes […]
