Show picks for your midweek: ‣ Two generations of Grammy-winning singers tonight at the Hollywood Bowl, where Anita Baker – her first album in eight yeras is due in October – and Esperanza Spalding perform. That’s the video for Spalding’s “Radio Song,” above. ‣ Tashaki Miyaki celebrates the release of a new single with a show […]
Incoming: Everest, Poliça, Neil Diamond, Two Gallants, Anita Baker, Esperanza Spalding, Civil Twilight, Cults, Diana Krall, AM & Shawn Lee, Echo Park Rising and more. Above: Fresh off her remarkable performances supporting Sigur Ros, Julia Holter brings the emotive sound collages on her album “Tragedy” (based on the Greek play “Hippolytus”) to the Echo on […]
Around town tonight: ‣ Panic! at the Disco, Fun and Funeral Party play to a sold-out Wiltern. Love it when pop-punk bands bust out the strings. ‣ Strong local bill at the Satellite, where Manhattan Murder Mystery is joined by Death to Anders and George Glass. ‣ Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel, aka Two Gallants, […]
As the songwriting half of San Francisco duo Two Gallants, Adam Haworth Stephens has plenty of stories to tell. The narratives continue with “We Live on Cliffs,” his solo debut out Sept. 28 on Saddle Creek. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli, and featuring a litany of guest musicians from My Morning Jacket’s Patrick Hallahan and Bo […]
Please excuse this self-promotional interlude: I will be in Austin next week at South by Southwest, hoping to open my ears to some new flavors and blogging as much as humanly possible – as well as co-hosting the “Buzz Bands at Cheers” party Friday afternoon at Cheers on 6th. The party features sets by seven […]
