An L.A. Weekly birthday tribute
Also, Peaches, Killing Joke, Albert Lee and others
Chrissie Hynde and J.P. Jones After 30 years of leading the Pretenders, singer-guitarist Chrissie Hynde has run away and joined the circus. Or, to be more specific, she's joined JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys, a new band with the Welsh singer-guitarist J.P. Jones. In Great Britain, fairg ... More >>
Photo by Laura CrostaChely Wright is a gay country singer, which for some feels like calling someone a clumsy heart surgeon or a nymphomaniac nun. You just can't be both. It's partly this prevailing idea that somehow "gay" and "country star" is an oxymoron that kept Wright in the closet for ... More >>
Billy W. Chernoff, billychernoff.comBen Keith in 1969 at Nashville's Music City RecordersBen Keith, the respected Nashville multi-instrumentalist whose distinctive and evocatively lonely steel-guitar adornments provided an inescapably haunting accompaniment to many of Neil Young's biggest hit ... More >>
Also, Lilith 2010, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Smokey Robinson, Antibalas and others
From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds
Also Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Espers, a Nicollete Larson Tribute, and others.
Also, Rodriguez, the Monolators, Nas and more
Also, Uh Huh Her, James Intveld, Miranda Lee Richards and more
For the week of May 3 10
Concerts Clubs Other Rock & Pop Concerts Clubs Other Country & Folk
Seeing Bright Eyes in the big picture
Mike Stinson in the late great Golden State
onnie Mack’s Barn Dance is lookin’ for love
The truthful way of Billie Holiday
Andy Prieboy scores
