Entries from Sarah Tomlinson: Blog tagged with 'concert review'
GET ICKY PUMPED
6.20 The White Stripes @ Icky Thump Records “I feel like I’m at my friend’s bah mitzvah, and The White Stripes got paid a million dollars to play,” my friend Brett said as we stood, waiting eagerly and sweating profusely,...
LA ROCK CITY
6.11 Juliette Lewis and the Licks @ Spaceland Burning Brides @ The Echo Either everyone in the city of Los Angeles has spring fever, or local music fans are all about supporting their hometown heroes, because the rock clubs were...
BURN BABY BURN: COACHELLA INFERNO
4.27 – 4.29 Coachella Six hours is a long time to spend in the car, especially when completing a drive that should only take two. But welcome to the first feat of endurance associated with the Coachella music festival, held...
COULDA SHOULDA WOULDA
4.6 David Vandervelde @ 6th & Alameda I know it’s irksome, how music fans in the know get so smug and gloaty about that time they caught some once-in-a-lifetime moment that will go down in the annals of rock history,...
EVERYTHING THERMALS
4.6 The Thermals @ EXPLX It’s so unbelievably great when good things happen to nice people. And so it was extra special to see the enormous crowd of sweaty, bouncy, sing-a-long-happy kids rocking their hearts out to The Thermals at...
SMILEY, HAPPY MUSIC
4.4 The Little Ones @ The Troubadour How cute are The Little Ones? First off, you’ve got to love a band so full of good feeling that one of their songs features back up singing that’s nothing more than laughter....
IDIOT SAVANT OR GENIUS?
4.3 Andrew W.K. @ Safari Sam’s To be fair, Andrew W.K. did preface his show with an exposition about how, if you really want to party, you don’t prepare anything in advance. But the kick off to his heroically titled...
THE RATATAT ROOM AT CASA DEL SARAH
4.2 Ratatat @ The Henry Fonda The Brooklyn-based duo Ratatat proves you don’t need a bunch of band members, or even any lyrics, to create gorgeous, cinematic soundscapes. And the fans at their sold out Henry Fonda show proved really...
DON’T HATE THEM BECAUSE THEIR BEAUTIFUL
3.22 Dragonforce // Killswitch Engage @ The Wiltern Sort of like the UN, but dressed in leather, and wielding the loveliest rock locks this side of the late ‘80s, Dragonforce is an international heavy metal experience like no other. You...
SXSW ROUNDUP: THE REST IS JUST A BLUR
Well, that’s not exactly true. But since this batch of SXSW coverage has already taken longer than the actual festival lasted, let’s go ahead and get this sucker wrapped up already. So, here’s what the people want, anyhow: The highlights!...
3.15 SXSW DAY TWO: LET’S GET DOWN TO IT
Things got into full swing early on Friday, with the New West Records mid-afternoon party offering a set by Tim Easton, along with the lure of free tacos and beer. A California-based singer-songwriter with wry charm and an unabashed political...
SXSW DAY ONE: CHILDLIKE EXCITEMENT
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 Off the airplane (following a flight that offered the trip’s first ultra rock hair sighting: The Melvins) and out into the melee. While eating a veggie burger standing up at a lunch counter, I spied Martha Wainwright...
A Chanteuse's Chanteuse
3.12 El Perro del Mar @ ExPlex How lovely and rare. It’s not until you hear a talent like El Perro del Mar perform live that accolades like chanteuse and songbird are actually imbued with meaning. She made the cavernous...
Jeepers, Creepers, Where'd You Get Those Peepers?
2.7 Bright Eyes @ The El Rey They love him so, so much. And they know it will make him hate them. But they can’t help themselves. Sort of like playing chicken, or those poor folk who drunk dial their...
You Can't Sing Along to a Snappy Stage Look
3.5 Great Northern @ The Viper Room It’s been chic of late for new bands to draw on the atmospheric sounds of ‘80s New Wavers from The Smiths and U2 (ah, remember when?) to The Cure and Siouxsie and the...
Let Your Freak Flag Fly
3.4 Fuckwolf // Dani Wind @ The Echo So, normally experimental noise and avant garde indie rock shows aren’t necessarily my jam. I can intellectually understand why the music is interesting and novel and good, but I just don’t feel...
I Want to Sleep with Common People
2.28 Georgie James @ Spaceland The audience may not have gotten the memo, but it was an indie rock dance party when Georgie James took the stage at Spaceland on Wednesday night. This D.C.-based quartet plays songs jammed with enough...
On a Roll
2.27 Unbusted @ Silverlake Lounge It was like Little Boston at the Silverlake Lounge on Tuesday night, when the Unbusted held court with a whole crew of old friends in the house to support them. Bassist Farley Glavin was rocking...
Yes, Verily, So Be It
2.23.07 Om @ The Echo Generally speaking, Friday nights are not my designated time for spiritual uplift and enlightenment. But when such lofty pursuits are delivered on a maelstrom of hypnotic rock heaviness, who can argue? And Om definitely delivered...
Wild as a Bird Now
2.22.07 The Wildbirds @ The Echo Maybe it was all of the Bruce Springsteen and Pretenders I heard around the house growing up, but I will always love the rock, first and foremost, now and forever. Even with so many...
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