Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis mixes it up on new CD
Jenny Lewis had done polished. It was time for a real free-wheelin’ family, ahem, ‘jam.’
Jenny Lewis no longer calls Silver Lake home, but she hasn’t moved to Laurel Canyon. The woodsy bungalow she shares with her companion and musical collaborator, Johnathan Rice, sits in an obscure corner of the San Fernando Valley, not too far from either of the neighborhoods favored by L.A.’s rock elite, but on its own ground.
Calexico comes to Henry Fonda Theater
The eclectic Southwestern band boasts a confident new album, ‘Carried to Dust.’
Joey Burns is a very busy man. The co-leader of Southwestern rock alchemists Calexico has been writing the soundtrack for an upcoming Taylor Hackford film, recording an in-studio set for a Tucson radio station and preparing to support the band’s latest album, “Carried to Dust,” with a tour that stops at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood tonight.
The New Year at The Echo
But the wait may be worth it. The indie band rings in its third album in nine years tonight at the Echo.
On the long list of indie bands that deserve wider hearing — Quasi, the Ladybug Transistor, the Clientele — sits the New Year, a mild-mannered group whose songs begin as reflective, melancholy odes and transform themselves into chiming cathedrals of sound.
Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn at the Hotel Café
A little Brit folk invasion hits L.A.
For a young person fresh out of school and craving energy-channeling structure and tradition, there are many options: Join the Army; get a grad degree in something useless; try a career in folk music. Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn are two wide-eyed English singer-songwriters who chose the latter. During a two-night stand at the Hotel Café over the weekend, they each updated the UK tradition of the pastoral balladeer by pairing involved acoustic arrangements with the self-awareness characteristic of their Twittering mates.
As his legendary 24-hour French diner closes for the first time, it is being mourned as the sad passing of an era. But Morellet regrets nothing. 
A field guide to the Costume Institute gala?s fashion team-ups. 
