Here’s your show menu for the last Saturday of 2012: ‣ Father John Misty (pictured above), who made several year-end lists (including this one) with his album “Fear Fun,” headlines the El Rey Theatre. Fellow L.A band Icy Demons supports. ‣ Queen of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson shows fans she’s still got it with a show […]
Incoming: Reverend Horton Heat, Social Distortion, Jane Monheit, Jeffertitti’s Nile, GRMLN, Donavon Frankenreiter, the Growlers, Fishbone, Erykah Badu, Father John Misty, Wanda Jackson, Peter Murphy, FMLY Fest, the Aggrolites, Wolfgang Gartner, Ludacris, the Fixx Above: So Many Wizards [see of tops-in-L.A. albums list] are one of about 50 artists playing this weekend’s FMLY Fest at […]
The last time I witnessed the Henry Clay People play a New Year’s Eve show: The Satellite was known as Spaceland; the Henry Clays covered “Sometime Around Midnight” at, well, about midnight; there was an onstage marriage proposal; the band played 90-plus minutes of classic rock covers in addition to an hour of their own […]
Top show options on a busy Monday: ‣ Wanda Jackson, backed by Jack White and the Third Man House Band, plays a second night at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ On the eve of the release of their third album, “Mine Is Yours,” Cold War Kids play the Bootleg Theater. ‣ White Lies, their new […]
[Birthday greetings today to Cat Power … Now on to the weekend:] Five very different shows that pique my interest: ‣ Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson, the 73-year-old Queen of Rockabilly whose new album “The Party Ain’t Over” (out next week) was produced by Jack White, starts a two-night stand Sunday night […]
