Your Sunday fare: ► Bay Area rockers Train team up with the Fray and Matt Nathanson for a big night at the Hollywood Bowl. Above, the video for the title track to Train’s latest album “Bulletproof Picasso.” ► Magic Wands have a new album coming the fall, titled “Jupiter,” and they’re playing it tonight at […]
Incoming: Lana Del Rey, Wolf Alice, the Tallest Man on Earth, Tanlines, Jessie J, Pretty Sister, the Milk Carton Kids, Dead Sara, Jimmy Gnecco, Neil Diamond, Joy Williams, San Fermin, Prides, Emery, Susanne Sundfor, Shakey Graves, Too Short, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Rocco Deluca, Daniel Lanois, Hiatus Kaiyote, Trapdoor Social, the Diamond Light, Herbert […]
Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Jane’s Addiction, Failure, Cold War Kids, Empire of the Sun, Mayer Hawthorne, Tarfest, Hunter Hunted, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Mosco Rosco, Fenech-Soler, Soft Swells, Rise Against, Andrew Belle, Daedelus, Karen O, Buzzbocks, Coldplay, Train, De Lux, Magic Mirror, Vulpeck, Augustines, Chuck Ragan, Cheap Trick, Diana Ross, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, […]
And Sunday’s fun: ‣ New Order‘s North American tour brings the influential synth-pop band (sans founding member Peter Hook) to the Greek Theatre. La Roux opens. ‣ Brooklyn indie-rockers the Antlers are back for a second night at the Troubadour behind their new album “Familiars.” Above, the video for “Hotel.” Yellow Ostrich supports. ‣ X […]
Here’s your list for 7/11: ‣ Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds visit the Shrine Auditorium, supported by Warpaint. ‣The Summer and Music series in Long Beach continues with “Twisted at the Pike” (95 S. Pine), a free show featuring De Lux, Fartbarf, Wild Pack of Canaries and Free Moral Agents. ‣ X does the […]
Free concerts, record-release parties, music legends … a thriller of a Thursday: ‣ The Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier kicks off with indie acts Cults and James Supercave. Free and all-ages, the festivities start at 7 p.m. Above, Cults’ video for “High Road.” ‣ Legendary singer-guitarist Richard Thompson visits Levitt Pavilion MacArthur […]
Incoming: Zak Waters, Cher, Hi Ho Silver Oh, Corners, LA Font, S. Carey, the Bolts, Kilo Virga, Skin N Bones, KISS, Def Leppard, Joshua bell, Town in the City, Los Mysterious, Prayers, The Herbert Bail Orchestra, Peter Matthew Bauer, John Murry, GoldStar, The Mowgli’s, Waters, Cloud Nothings, METZ, The Count Basie Orchestra, Via Echo, Charlie […]
Some historical-type things at the top of your Wednesday: ‣ The Fabulous Forum [above] – $100 million in renovations later – reopens tonight with a concert featuring the Eagles. It’s their first of five shows there. ‣ The Whisky a Go Go’s 50th anniversary celebration continues with a show from iconic punk rockers X. ‣ A […]
Incoming: Eagles, the Crystal Method, John Newman, DWNTWN, Vanaprasta, Criminal Hygiene, James Supercave, Froth, Ominiflux, 3 Doors Down, Janelle Monae, Johnny Rivers, Wild Ones, Falling in Reverse, X, Colin Meloy, Nightmare & the Cat, Bonfire Beach, Connan Mockasin, Unwritten Law, Pepper, Dengue Fever, Maria Taylor, Parquet Courts, Superhumanoids, Pinback, Buckcherry, Harriet Above:Â That’s the video […]
It’s a full-on Friday night: ‣ Four bands associated with the 1980s movement known as the Paisley Underground – the Bangles, the Three O’Clock [pictured at Coachella in April], the Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade – team up at the Fonda Theatre for a show benefiting music education programs in L.A. ‣ The Skirball Cultural […]
