It’s pretty much a Friday frenzy: ‣ South Bay punk icons Pennywise are celebrating 25 years – and celebrating having singer Jim Lindberg back in the fold – so the first of two sold-out shows tonight at the Palladium ought to be wall-shakers. Lagwagon opens. ‣Â Femi Kuti & the Positive Force bring the good vibes […]
Thursday things: ‣ Louisiana sextet Royal Teeth, winding up an over-the-holidays tour and getting ready to record their debut album for Dangerbird Records, visit the Roxy Theatre, supported by the Active Set, Lakes, Pierce the Arrows at Garrett Lee Robinson. That’s Royal Teetch, above, during their impressive set on October at the Culyure Collide festival. […]
Thousands of bicyclist and pedestrians took to normally car-clogged streets on Sunday as part of the quarterly CicLAvia event, and those who traversed Broadway to visit CicLAvia’s Chinatown hub got a special treat – live music from four L.A. bands and some delicious suds in the craft beer garden. On a picture-perfect afternoon, Sanglorians, Blonde […]
Show picks for Sunday: ‣ Coming off their epic club show Saturday night at the Echoplex, Of Montreal headlines the Culture Collide Block Party (on Reservoir between Alvarado and Sunset in Echo Park, free with RSVP) as the Filter magazine festival comes to a close. The Wombats, School of Seven Bells, Niki and the Dove, […]
The live music at last weekend’s Moon Festival was so much fun that Chinatown is doing it again this Sunday. A matinee show in conjunction with CicLAvia will bring four standout L.A. bands to an outdoor stage near Chinatown’s Central Plaza (specifically, adjacent to the Grand Star Jazz Club). There will be a craft beer […]
CicLAvia, the quarterly community event that ushers pedestrians and bicyclists onto normally traffic-clogged thoroughfares, goes off Sunday on streets in and around downtown L.A. [See map here.] And for this event, four local bands will perform a free, all-ages matinee show at the CicLAvia hub in the Central Plaza in Chinatown. Rising synth-pop quartet Tapioca […]
Voxhaul Broadcast has been added to the Echo Park Rising lineup to anchor the Echo stage, and Hands, Calvin Love, Oh Boy Les Mecs and the Dead Ships have been slotted to play the Echoplex as plans are finalized for the free, one-day neighborhood festival on Saturday. Fool’s Gold (previously announced) highlights a big lineup […]
Buzz Bands LA Stage at Taix to feature Soft Swells, Warships, the Lonely Wild, the Record Company, Pageants and more Remember Sunset Junction? Not the fenced-off, charge-you-an-arm-and-a-leg Sunset Junction, but the free, neighborhood-y festival of its early years? That’s what organizers have in mind for Echo Park Rising – a free, one-day celebration of local […]
Tuesday’s slate of shows: ‣ Lisa Marie Presley, touring for the first time in five years, headlines the Roxy behind her new album of country-blues, “Storm and Grace.” ‣ And speaking of all things twangy, L.A. quartet Infantree [check out “Fibber” here] celebrates the release of its rootsy album “Hero’s Dose” at the Satellite, supported […]
[For your planning pleasure, here’s a straight-up list of what’s ahead this week, with our picks:] Incoming: Graffiti6, Warships, 2:54, the Heavy, Gardens & Villa, El-P, Keane, Jonathan Richman, the B-52’s, Squeeze, Mystery Jets, Foster the People, the Soft Pack, Standing Shadows and more. Our staff picks of the week: @KRBronson recommends: U.K. funk-soul dynamos […]
