Your Tuesday show lineup is looking pretty fantastic: ‣ Hey, Kaiser Chiefs, nice to see you back. The Leeds rockers, who release their fifth album “Education, Education, Education & War” in late March, play the El Rey Theatre, with Avid Dancer opening. ‣ Big night for the SoCal tour series that Lucinda Williams in celebration […]
Incoming: Cibo Matto, Sleeper Agent, Kaiser Chiefs, Kins, Lucinda Williams, Lemon Sun, the Last Internationale, Charlie Greene, Mark Mulcahy, Sharon Corr, Decoded, Early Winters, Dr. Dog, Lord Huron, Restavrant, Kodaline, AC Slater, Xemia Rubinos, the Wailers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the Record Company, Capital Cities, Morgan Page, Toni Braxton, the Haden Triplets, Okapi Sun, Com […]
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister – the band built around Lemon Sun frontman Rob Kolar and his thespian sister Rachel – is as much about the spectacle as the songs. Costumed, crazy and even a little bit cartoonish, the Kolars – joined in the core group by tap-dancer Lauren Brown and delightfully mad cellist […]
Their name might be a mouthful – Cannoneers of the New Command – but the music of the new L.A. quartet is easy to swallow: It’s garage rock ’n’ soul that harks back to the swaggering British bands of the early ’90s and to grittier ’70s before. Absent the current scene’s fetish for synths and […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to old pal Don Was. Here’s your Monday menu:] Tonight’s top 4 week-starters: ‣ L.A. lost an indie-pop contender last fall when You Me & Iowa decided to call it quits, but from the ashes of that quintet has sprung the Lonely Wild [pictured], a new project from YM&I’s Andrew […]
Eastern Conference Champions bandmates Joshua Ostrander and Greg Lyons go back a long way. Ostrander was an admiring kid in the days of long-ago Philadelphia-area bands Trip 66 and Dandelion, played in local heroes Ty Cobb and eventually teamed up with the left-handed drummer in Laguardia, who released one major-label album, in 2003. Five roller-coaster […]
Great stuff from touring and local bands alike tonight, starting at the Troubadour where British soul man Jamie Lidell headlines and Minneapolis electro-pop trio Solid Gold [pictured] opens. The Minnesotans (who also play Spaceland on Sunday) recently released their “Synchronize” EP – and the title track got a remix treatment from L.A.’s Morgan Kibby (of […]
What’s in the suitcase? Lemon Sun frontman Rob Kolar finds out in the video for the L.A. quintet’s new single “Touch the Lightning.” The stop-motion film is the brainchild of Emily Wilder (night job: fronting the L.A. trio Wet & Reckless), who stitched together hundreds of photographs to create the piece. ||| Live: Lemon Sun […]
[Happy birthday to Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor, who hits the big five-oh today. It’s just a number, y’know …] Aqualung, the nom de tune of British singer-songwriter Matt Hales, last week released its sixth album, “Magnetic North.” It sounds a bit like Beck-as-a-piano-man in places, Chris Martin-as-Beck in others and Mark Everett-as-Chris Martin in others; […]
