Quickly, once around your Sunday: ‣ The Black Angels and Sleepy Sun team up for a night of psych-rock at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ TV On the Radio, with IO Echo supporting, plays the Fox Theater in Pomona. ‣ Big Sunday, a benefit for the Harmony Project, has assembled a pretty great lineup for […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Greg Dulli, whose Twilight Singers are coming to town May 25 …] Tonight’s picks: ‣ Elvis Costello and the Imposters bring their “Spectacular Spinning Songbook” – fans spin the wheel and the band plays whatever comes up – to their sold-out show at the Wiltern. ‣ TV On the […]
Gerard Smith, the bass player for indie-rock standouts TV on the Radio, has died of lung cancer. He was 36. The band, which just released its new album “Nine Types of Light,” had revealed Smith’s diagnosis in March. A statement on the band’s website today said: “We are very sad to announce the death of […]
Depeche Mode, Tool, the Killers, Jane’s Addiction, the Beastie Boys and Kings of Leon were announced as headliners for this summer’s Lollapalooza – topping a roster that includes the strong Los Angeles contingent of the Silversun Pickups, the Airborne Toxic Event, No Age and the Henry Clay People. Silversun, Airborne and No Age represented for […]
[Contributor Ali MacLean stations herself at the main stage:] On Saturday, the main stage at Coachella resembled the KCRW World Music extravaganza, Paolo Nutini, Michael Franti, M.I.A., and, ahem, representing the exotic Las Vegas Mormon contingency, the Killers. But no group was more of the world than TV On The Radio. Touring on their new […]
[If you can get your noses out of your taxes for a moment, raise a glass today for birthday girl Loretta Lynn …] Another Coachella warm-up show hits the Glass House in Pomona – tonight it’s TV on the Radio, joined by Ikey Owens and Free Moral Agents. … Kimya Dawson, whose latest post-Moldy Peaches […]
The Top 10 1. M83, Saturdays=Youth” (Mute) 2. The Whigs, “Mission Control” (ATO) 3. The Futureheads, “This Is Not the World” (Nul Records) 4. Friendly Fires, “Friendly Fires” (Beggars/XL) 5. Cut Copy, “In Ghost Colours” (Modular) 6. Portishead, “Third” (Island) 7. MGMT, “Oracular Spectacular” (Columbia) 8. Mercury Rev, “Snowflake Midnight” (Yep Roc) 9. The Duke […]
[Thank the stars that I have people looking over my shoulder. I think. These two missives arrived in my inbox this morning, and since the writers (thanks, guys) took the trouble to share, I thought I would, too:] Dear Buzz Bands: While you were running around hipster bars last night you missed quite a spectacle […]
