Concert Reviews
Tinariwen Unleashes a Saharan Dance Party
Tinariwen are “people of the desert,” poets and musicians from the southern Sahara, who wandered into UCLA’s Royce Hall stage Saturday night to share the sound and vision of a world apart.
Cold War Kids’ Lukewarm Friday Night at the Wiltern
Cold War Kids’ Lukewarm Friday Night at the Wiltern
Bon Iver at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
On the precipice of Sunday morning, amid Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s tombstones and mausoleums, the misty fog and leaning palm trees, Bon Iver provided an ethereal soundtrack to sunrise.
Fischerspooner at the Avalon
Is this hipster Vegas?
Silversun Pickups
A slice of the Los Angeles music community visited the dark basement space of the Echoplex for a benefit concert intended to raise awareness and money for children with cancer. All proceeds from the sold-out Silversun Pickups show, which was announced only three days in advance, went to the Pablove Foundation, an organization supporting cancer research and arts, music and play programs for young cancer patients.
Mika would make a Muppet proud
Floppy haired piano popster Mika plays a Perez Hilton sanction show at the Roxy
Tender Buttons
TENDER BUTTONS @ LOW END THEORY
LA Record
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 2007:
With his handlebar mustache curling up at the ends, Zack Wentz from Tender Buttons wailed out low tones into a vintage microphone, while reverse skunk-haired Kate Wince triggered the galloping beats and early ’90s industrial rhythms that dominated their Wednesday set at the Low End Theory. […]
Earthless/ Psychic Paramount
EARTHLESS / PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT @ SIXTH STREET GALLERY
LA Record
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2007: The Psychic Paramount, from New York, create a swell of sound meshed with the tumbling inertia of freight-train bass and bombastic beats. Their experimental instrumentals surge with intensity as every riff and rhythm interlock into a rising tide, growing louder with each […]
Concert Review: The Horrors
The Horrors at the Echo
LA Record:
MONDAY, MARCH 19 2007: If in some strange future world, someone looked into an expansive compendium of music from the 21st century, under the heading “Nightmare-Mod-Rock” would be a single photo of The Horrors. Yet at the U.K. band’s first show in Los Angeles, they probably resembled the Sex Pistols […]
The Mountain Goats
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS @ THE EL REY
LA Record
SUNDAY, MARCH 11: The bulk of the Mountain Goats’ music is fueled by the expansive imagination and playful lyricism of signer/ songwriter John Darnielle, and this show at the El Rey Theater provided a glimpse into the troubled relationships, suburban backyards, and tightly knit communities populating Darnielle’s world. […]
