Incoming: The Neighbourhood, Wolfmother, Dessa, the Greyboy Allstars, the Cat Empire, Alabama Shakes, Matchbox Twenty, Sergio Mendes, Mayer Hawthorne, Belle & Sebastian, Fol Chen, White Arrows, Meshell Ndegeocello, Wiz Khalifa, Red Baraat, Passenger, the Dan Band, Pink Martini, Chinatown Summer Nights, Dillinger Escape Plan, Matthew Sweet, Rogue Wave, Heh Marseilles, Camper Van Beethoven, Shooter Jennings […]
[Buzz Bands lite again today. I’m on an island somewhere.] Friday’s night’s Tribute to Neil Young (mounted by When You Awake) drew a great crowd to the Bootleg Theatre, and there were some sterling takes on Young’s catalog too – none that I enjoyed more than when Leslie Stevens of Leslie & the Badgers, fronting […]
Jump Clubb calls itself “an anonymous band from Beverly Hills,” which sounds really suspicious since nobody from Beverly Hills is anonymous, or evens wants to be. The act – which we hear may involve this electronic artist and member of the Def Jux family – this week released its debut album, “The Love of No […]
Welcome news dept.: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is working in Hollywood on a new album to be released in early 2010. In the meantime, the L.A.-based trio have announced it will release “Live,” a two-DVD, one-CD package on Nov. 11. The release, on the band’s own imprint through a partnership with Vagrant, features more than […]
[Random observations on a Tuesday afternoon …] Ozzy Osbourne, who will be honored Sept. 10 at the House of Blues as the kickoff to the Sunset Strip Music Festival, has been added to the bill to perform the final set on the festival’s outdoor stage on Sunset Boulevard on Saturday, Sept. 12. Korn, Pepper, Kottonmouth […]
With their highly anticipated sophomore album “Cosmic Egg” coming Oct. 13, Australian rockers Wolfmother played a surprise show Wednesday night at the Roxy. Check out my review at SPIN.com.
A busy night just got busier – Australian rockers Wolfmother are playing a surprise show [update: at 6 p.m.] at the Roxy. It’s for Yahoo! Music, and Andrew Stockdale [pictured] and his (new) bandmates, who teased L.A. audiences with a show back in April at the Natural History Museum and who crashed last weekend’s Sunset […]
[Notebook entries, once sentence apiece …] Wolfmother [visit the site to sign up for the download of the new single “Back Round”] sure was great a couple Fridays ago in the Natural History Museum’s Mammals Hall (imagine that), but I was surprised that the set started and ran so late, since the museum’s First Fridays […]
[A quick happy 70th birthday to Judy Collins, and a happy May Day to you. Other responsibilities are going to force me to be very brief with this update – see Duke for a bigger rundown.] Tonight: If I’m still standing by this evening, it will be Wolfmother and the Ruby Sons at First Fridays […]
One album, three or so delirious years and a lot of patter about being the next Led Zeppelin later, Australia’s Wolfmother disintegrated in 2008 in a cloud of “irreconcilable personal and musical differences.” Frontman Andrew Stockdale has now replaced original members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett with a new lineup and is finishing up a […]
