More than one participant – and even the attendees felt like participants – at Saturday night’s Tribute to the Movies likened the affair to an Irish wake. There were songs and drinks and tears and photos and video projections, and all of it was very good, if not cathartic. The Movies, beloved Silver Lakers whose […]
Kicking off the first weekend in March: ‣ Releasing an album, “Gemini,” followed by an EP, “Golden Haze,” Virginia’s Wild Nothing won a lot of indie hearts last year. Songwriter Jack Tatum and band bring their dream-pop to this month’s installment of First Fridays at the Natural History Museum, where they are supported by L.A.’s […]
[Birthday greetings today go out to Stephin Merritt …] Calling it just another manic Monday: ‣ New Jersey punk rockers Screaming Females (that’s their video for “Wild,” above) bring their riot grrrl-inspired shredding to the Echoplex, supported by La Sera and Lovely Bad Things. ‣ Expect to hear some new songs when Great Northern plays […]
Tonight’s top 4 reasons to grab an umbrella and go: ‣ It’s the live debut of Middle Brother – the collaboration between John McCauley of Deer Tick, Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes [see our post last week] – at the Troubadour as part of the big benefit for Invisible Children. […]
Scottish rockers Dananananaykroyd, who were scheduled to arrive in the U.S. this week, have been forced cancel their appearance Saturday night at Spaceland because of visa problems. L.A. indie-rockers Wait. Think. Fast. – whose sophomore album “Luces Del Sur” came out earlier this fall, much to our delight – have agreed to join the bill […]
Wet & Reckless, the L.A. quartet of Emily Wilder, Whitney Blank, Jessica Gelt and Deanna deVries, has been added to the bill for Saturday’s “A Night With Buzz Bands LA” show at Spaceland. The foursome, who recently wrapped up an October residency at the Silverlake Lounge, replaces Teddy Geiger, who had to cancel because of […]
[Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, whom you know as Katy Perry, was born on this day in 1984. Cheers.] Tonight’s top 3 visitors from foreign lands: ‣ UNKLE (new album “Where Did the Night Fall” and new EP “The Answer”) makes its first visit to L.A. in more than three years at the El Rey Theatre. That’s […]
Top 3 U.K. acts to see in L.A. tonight (and the best one is not a Mercury Prize nominee): ‣ The RSVP-only It’s a School Night at Bardot features the French Horn Rebellion, Mia Doi Todd and secret guests from across the pond. I hear it’s a Manchester band signed to a local label. Be […]
Top 1 show for a special occasion if were in charge of the special occasion: ‣ Teenage Fanclub and this blogger go way back. Not quite to when I was teenage, but I got “Bandwagonesque” early and never hopped off. Tonight, the Scottish quintet visits the El Rey Theatre behind their new album “Shadows,” supported […]
Just when we’d hoped the five minutes for boy-obsessed girl groups had passed, Wet & Reckless spring their first single on the world, and it’s “New Guy.” The L.A. quartet trades in wry, undercooked garage pop with some nifty lyrical subterfuge, but this first single – released as part of a 7-inch split single (b/w […]
