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L. A. Burning, West Coast Concert Picks, December 2nd To 8th
Angel Olsen has 2 dates at the Palace Theatre
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, MAY 7TH TO 13TH
The Afghan Whigs and Built To Spill are at the Wiltern on Thursday
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, APRIL 23rd TO 27th
Cigarettes After Sex are at the Ace Hotel on Friday, at the Fonda Theatre on Saturday
Rolling Loud Festival At Nos Events Center, San Bernardino, Saturday December 16th 2017
whether you know them or not, they are the rock stars of the moment
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, DECEMBER 11th To 17th 2017
including a rare solo performance by the Radiohead frontman himself.
US Top 10 Albums March 15th, 2014
After moving over a million units the first week, and half a million the second week, Beyonce has been on the charts for the entire year and counting. 11 weeks? Which makes it the album of the year so far. Meanwhile… the Schoolboy Q and the Kid Cudi have their moments FYI.
rock nyc's top 10 songs Week Of February 24th, 2014
“Wild Wild Love” is stickier than toffee apple in a three year old girls curls, and the rest of this includes two quasi experimental performers going mainstream and a garage band from the 1970s still doing t to tremendous effect in 2014. The past two weeks have been easily the best of the year.
10 Songs: Saturday, March 1st, 2014
It is like grunge without the loud/soft stuff and with much more sonic pounce in its step, but also without the sense of a scene to make sense of it, unless you consider former members of Male Bonding a scene – B+
10 Songs, wednesday, February 26th, 2014
The least weird song on the album is still pretty weird, a dance number but it sounds like Robyn on a jittery caffeine high but suffering a fit of manic depression and she just can’t shake it until in a wild rhythmic breakdown she pauses and regroups none the better – A
Be Here Now: Snap Shot Reviews Of New Releases For February 25th, 2014
Country boy Dierk is good where nearly everybody else isn’t because he has a great voice for this but also because he plays country rock with backbone and intricate clicked in arrangement, maybe because he isn’t a boy any more If he was better lyrically he’d be blowing Brad Paisley away, just the way he did when he opened for Brad at MSG – ALBUM OF THE WEEK – B+
Sneak Peaks: New Releases Week Of 2-25-14
Everything we’ve heard from Beck’s Morning Phase (his self professed follow up to Sea Change) have been excellent; there is nothing to choose between “Wave”, “Waking Light” and “Blue Moon”, they are first rate return to forms. Otherwise, Schoolboy Q, St. Vincent, Neneh Cherry, maybe Wild Beasts.