There are so many shows to recommend tonight my recommending muscles are tired: ‣ It’s not often a guy who’s won a Kennedy Center Living Legend Award visits the Echoplex, so tonight’s show with Jimmy Scott ought to be special. With a career spanning more than six decades, the 85-year-old vocalist has performed with most […]
Top 4 ways to keep that summertime adrenaline pumping: ‣ Jets Overhead have jetted in from Canada – that’s their new video for “I Should Be Born,” above – and since I’ve advocated for them before, I’ll do it again. They play the Roxy on a KROQ Locals Only bill (hmm, KROQ now reaches all […]
There’s a lot of the sun-splashed Sixties in the music of A B & the Sea, the Bay Area quintet that was founded in Wisconsin by guitarists Koley O’Brien and Joe Spargur. Two years after O’Brien and Spargur packed up the van and headed west, they’ve combined with Troy Lawton, Zak LaVigne and David Hunt […]
[Have a sane Fourth of July weekend, folks. Really. And if you go the Hollywood Bowl for any of those Vince Gill/fireworks shows, please mosh safely.] My favorite 5 reasons to mix some music with your pyrotechnics: ‣ Baths, the musical manifestation of L.A. wunderkind Will Wiesenfeld, celebrate the release of their Anticon debut “Cerulean” […]
