Recommended Shows :: February 28th – March 6th

Monday, February 28th
J. Tillman with Jenny O. @ Bootleg Theater
Eulogies with Family of the Year @ Bardot

Tuesday, March 1st
Arbouretum with Endless Boogie @ The Satellite

Wednesday, March 2nd
Swans with Wooden Wand and Devendra Banhart @ El Rey Theatre

Thursday, March 3rd
He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister @ Los Angeles Central Library
The Entrance Band with Sun Araw and Mavis Staples (early show) @ The Satellite

Friday, March 4th
Wild Nothing @ Natural History Museum
Autolux with The Soft Moon @ echoplex
Sweater Girls with Neverever @ echo
Cut Chemist @ Amoeba Music
JJ Grey @ Hotel Cafe
Trey Anastasio @ Music Box

Saturday, March 5th
Baths with Braids @ Troubadour
Matthew Hemerlein @ Hotel Cafe (7pm Show)

Sunday, March 6th
Yemen Blues @ Troubadour
Morcheeba @ Music Box


Autolux

Wild Nothing – Golden Haze
Jenny O. – Well OK Honey
Sweater Girls – Haven’t Got a Clue
Wooden Wand – Bobby
Soft Moon – Breathe the Fire

Recommended Shows :: December 6th – December 12th

Monday, December 6th
Big Search @ Spaceland
The Greenhornes with Hacienda @ Troubadour

Tuesday, December 7th
Spin Magazine Presents: Warpaint / WAVVES / Peanut Butter Wolf @ The Music Box

Wednesday, December 8th
The Fling with Darker My Love and Delta Spirit @ The Music Box
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band @ the echo

Thursday, December 9th
Hanni El Khatib @ the echo
Night Beats with Strangers Family Band @ Spaceland

Friday, December 10th
Warpaint @ Troubadour
Henry Rollins – Rare Cuts and Conversation @ echoplex

Saturday, December 11th
The Black Crowes – The Palladium

Sunday, December 12th
Warpaint @ Troubadour


Hanni El Khatib

Big Search – That’s All (Light’s On)
Night Beats – They Came In Through The Window

Friday, October 22
Widespread Panic @ Greek Theatre
Mark Sultan @ Spaceland
Taj Mahal with Vieux Farka Toure @ Royce Hall

Saturday, October 23
Interpol with White Rabbits @ The Greek Theatre
Sufjan Stevens with DM Stith @ The Wiltern

Sunday, October 24
Sufjan Stevens with DM Stith @ The Wiltern

Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day [Live]
Interpol – Lights
Widespread Panic – Superstition (Stevie Wonder Cover)

Recommended Los Angeles Shows for October 26th – October 30th

Monday, October 26th
Olin And The Moon @ Echoplex

Tuesday, October 27th
Wires In The Wall @ Silverlake Lounge

Wednesday, October 28th
Seven Saturdays @ Bordello

Thursday, October 29th
Alela Diane and Marissa Nadler @ Echo
Zodiac Death Valley with The Black Apples @ Silverlake Lounge
Land of Talk with The Eulogies @ Spaceland
Built to Spill @ Echoplex

Friday, October 30th
Fort Knox Five, Kraak & Smaak DJ Set and Ursula 1000 @ The Roxy
Florence and the Machine @ Troubadour
Built to Spill @ Echoplex
Dead Man’s Bones @ Echo

The Black Apples

Olin And The Moon – No Traffic, No Trees
Fort Knox Five – Blowing Up the Spot (Ft. Akil Dasan)
The Black Apples – Mutiny On
Florence and The Machine – You’ve Got the Love (The XX Remix)
The Growlers – Average Man
Eulogies – Love Is Strange
Land Of Talk – Some Are Lakes
Alela Diane – Pieces Of String
Times New Viking – Move To California
Seven Saturdays – A Beautiful Day

Bowerbirds with Megafaun
The Echo
August 4th @ 8pm (Purchase Tix – $10)

MP3: Megafaun – Kaufman’s Ballad
MP3: Megafaun – Lazy Suicide
MP3: Bowerbirds – Northern Lights

Bowerbirds – Upper Air out July 7th via Dead Oceans (Pre-Order)
Megafaun – Gather, Form & Fly out July 21st via Hometapes (Pre-Order)

“I tell you this, I don’t know what’s going to happen man, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.” Jim Morrison on astrology

It’s a pretty good week for new releases. The debut album from Strokes’ drummer Fab Moretti’s side project Little Joy is the best of the bunch. Moretti is joined by Los Angeles native Binki Shapiro and Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos). The band is playing December 7th @ The Troubadour. Tickets are still available (Buy Tix $15). I assume this show will sell out soon; hipsters paradise. That said, I just bought tickets.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan’s album Sunday At Devil Dirt is great.

Anathallo has created quite a buzz. Some bloggers are calling Canopy Glow one of the best albums of the year. I wouldn’t go that far. The musical arrangements are nice, but I still need to give it a few more listens.

I haven’t heard The Doors album, safe bet it’s good. Ditto with Belle & Sebastian.

Download:
Little Joy – Little Joy (iTunes)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Sunday At Devil Dirt (iTunes)
The Doors – Live At the Matrix, 1967(iTunes)
Anathallo – Canopy Glow (iTunes)
Belle & Sebastian – The BBC Sessions (iTunes)

Download
MP3: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Black Mountain
MP3: Little Joy – Unattainable
MP3: Anathallo – Cafetorium

I have a pair tickets for TV on The Radio this Thursday @ The Wiltern. The band is being backed by members of the Antibalas horn section led by Stuart Bogie.

I will post the tickets on Monday (Los Angeles residents only).

Download:
TV On the Radio – Dear Science (iTunes)
Antibalas – Who Is This America? (iTunes)

David Cross – Phone Call From A Cranky Terrorist

Download:
David Cross – Shut Up, You Fucking Baby (iTunes)
Arrested Development Season 1 (NetFlix)

Rollo & Grady // David Cross – Doesn’t Like Atlanta (Click Here)

I plan on catching Dengue Fever’s set while I’m in Austin for the Fun Fun Fun Fest. The six-member band from Los Angeles is led by charismatic Cambodian singer, Chhom Nimol. She is able to seamlessly mix two languages in their songs, similar to the style of Satomi Matsuzaki from Deerhoof. It’s quirky pop, but worth checking out.

Download:
Dengue Fever – Venus On Earth (iTunes)