So how’s your summer going? Great? Well, this will make it even better. Soft Swells – whose bright self-titled debut album gave everybody a head start on the summertime vibe when it was released back in February – have unveiled a new single. “Summer” sounds like a classic the moment Tim Williams picks the first […]
Thursday things: ‣ Black Star, the groundbreaking duo of Mos Def and Talib Kweli, do a makeup gig at Club Nokia for an L.A. date originally scheduled in October. ‣ The first night of the annual Invisible Children benefit concerts at the Troubadour features Jon Foreman (Switchfoot), Matt Pryor (the Get Up Kids), Aaron Gillespie […]
The 13th annual Eagle Rock Music Festival has it wired. The daylong neighborhood affair along Colorado Boulevard will feature 11 scions of the L.A. beat scene – the Low End Theory stage boasts performances by Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing and the Gaslamp Killer, among others – and enough of this city’s top indie music to […]
Your Tuesday show shortlist: ‣ Tenlons Fort plays its first L.A. show in more than a year tonight when Jack Gibson (pictured in spring 2010 at the Silverlake Jubilee) and friends headline Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park. The Sweet Hurt, CMG & We Are the Night and […]
Like his Rilo Kiley bandmates, bassist Pierre de Reeder has stayed busy since the L.A. indie-rockers last released an album in 2007. To inventory: Jenny Lewis has released a solo album, and then last year’s “I’m Having Fun Now” with Jenny & Johnny; Blake Sennett emerged this year with new Elected album, “Bury Me in […]
[Birthday shout-outs today to the legendary Robbie Robertson, local rocker Andy Siara and blogger-in-arms Justin Gage/Aquarium Drunkard …] If the schedule seems a bit light tonight, don’t worry. By the end of the week, you’ll be crushed: ‣ Nashville-based quartet the Greencards – with their fifth installment of “newgrass,” titled “The Brick Album,” just released […]
Anthony Polcino emerged from the shadow of his role as guitarist in Low Vs Diamond last autumn, when, doing business as Soft Pipes, he self-released a very good homemade album “When You’re Done Here You Get to Go Home.” Since then, abetted by Christopher Pappas and Miracle Parade, Polcino has assembled a live band and […]
It’s a full-up Friday: ‣ U2. The scrappy band from Ireland. Angel Stadium. ‣ The Wooden Birds, the latest project from American Analog Set’s Andrew Kenny, bring something of an all-star lineup to the Echo for a show in support of their new album “Two Matchsticks.” Kenny’s lineup is populated by three members of Matt […]
Tonight’s fare our for fair city: ‣ The monthly Rumble show hits the Echo tonight, with a couple of rising L.A. bands, White Arrows and Milo Greene, joined by Seattle duo My Goodness. It’s free with an RSVP. [The latest on White Arrows here; introducing Milo Greene here.] ‣ Australian duo An Horse – a […]
Tuesday’s things: ‣ Queens of the Stone Age celebrate the reissue of their debut album (expanded and remastered, of course) with a sold-out show at the Wiltern Theatre. ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter series goes off a Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park, featuring J. Irvin Dally, Soft Pipes, Miracle Parade and Wayne Everett. […]
