Tag Archives: El Rey

Featured Gallery Music Wallpaper Gets You #STUPiDFACEDD

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
January 30, 2012 - 1:54 pm

If you haven’t yet heard of Wallpaper., it’s time to tune in. Since being selected as MTVs PUSH Artist of the week, the innovative quartet, fronted by vocalist Ricky Reed, has been skyrocketing in popularity. The band is known for their hit single, #STUPiDFACEDD, which catalyzed a Twitter hashtag sensation and landed the band on Top 40 radio stations across the country. Wallpaper. recently packed Los Angeles’s El Rey theatre and treated a captivated audience to their signature “booty-shaking-bass-dropping hits.”

ChinaShop caught up with Wallpaper. following their recent stop in LA. Check out the interview after the jump:

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Gallery Music Hungry for seconds? PB & J Double Up at the El Rey

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
May 18, 2011 - 11:32 am

Los Angeles residents love their Peter Bjorn and John – so much so that the Swedish indie rock trio was able to pull off two shows at the El Rey in one night, selling out the first. May 14th’s early set brought a flood of excited fans into the venue as soon as the doors opened.

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Gallery Music Chicks Dig ‘Em: Uh Huh Her

by Jeff Nau and E.M.S.
April 4, 2011 - 12:30 pm

At first listen it doesn’t look or sound like Uh Huh Her is doing much new. Like countless others, they’re riding the 1982-87 New Wave for all it’s worth, packing their stage full of vintage synths, programmed drums, and guitars drenched in delay. Watching their spirited performance at the El Rey on Friday night, it was still hard not to think of Gozer from Ghostbusters and those slicked-down backup dancers from that Robert Palmer video.

But unlike so many others, UHH gets it right, capturing the post-punk spirit of what made bands like Joy Division and The Creatures so catchy. Songs like “I See Red” are infectious and ethereal, even dreamy; “Never the Same” (a preview from their upcoming album Nocturnes), is awash in an astral noise that’s somewhere on the spectrum between Enya and top 40 pop.

And judging by the rapturous applause, they stole hundreds of girls’ hearts tonight. As for the boys, who cares.

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Gallery Music AWOLNATION Lands at the El Rey

by Jeff Nau and Sidney Bensimon
November 25, 2010 - 3:09 pm

AWOLNATION crashed on Wilshire Blvd on Wednesday night, their spacey dance-punk and multi-genre madness a perfect foil for the El Rey’s decadent ballroom elegance: chandeliers and wine glasses shook to the pounding rhythms of  “MF” and “Burn it Down” as the quintet — dressed down in some seriously dapper duds (and braving some wicked feedback early in the set) –  took to the stage performing their first big hit, “Sail.”

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Gallery Music Fitz and the Tantrums Take the El Rey Back in Time

by Jeff Nau and Sidney Bensimon
November 24, 2010 - 12:08 pm

” I know one thing,” declares singer Michael Fitzpatrick near the opening of his set — his mop of hair and brow already caked with sweat after a mere three or four songs –  “WE DON’T NEED NO LOVE SONG!!” And predictably for fans, the 8-piece thus dives head-first into their song of the same title, off their head-spinning debut.

But when you look around, there’s room for nothing but love at the ‘ol El Rey tonight. Couples of all ages and races and lifestyles are groping each other, cuddling, coddling; Fitz and his gang are clearly an audio aphrodisiac and I’m going to start buying some of their records.

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