I’m taking a holiday break for some badly needed R&R – rest for the blogger and re-evaluation of this little enterprise. Best wishes to you and yours this holiday season, and thanks to everybody who supported Buzz Bands in 2009. ||| Live: If you go to one show next week, I recommended the New Year’s […]
Here’s my twist on a best-of-the-Noughties list: It’s 3 a.m. on a recent chilly evening and I’m on my couch, away from my record collection and my iTunes, with a notepad in my lap. I’ve assigned myself to come up with 50 songs from 2000 to ’09 that I love – at least the ones […]
I have only to glance at Stereogum’s post on the most anticipated albums of 2010 to be assured that next year will be better than 2009, when my most-visited album was the Stone Roses’ reissue. [Heartfelt thanks again to the person who gifted me that; you know who you are.] That said, ’09 had some […]
[Happy birthday to Rick Nielson. And here’s my last daily post of the year …] Three SoCal bands with big releases coming in the new year play the Echo – Local Natives, Voxhaul Broadcast and Chief. Local Natives’ “Gorilla Manor” is out Feb. 16 on French Kiss; the NYC-birthed, Santa Monica-based Chief will have an […]
[Has everybody reined in for the holidays? A few more posts, and Buzz Bands will be taking a little break. Meanwhile, here’s how get your Christmas week off to a good start:] Go see Helen Stellar [pictured] support residents Mere Mortals at Spaceland. … Go see Samuel Stewart support residents Links at the Silverlake Lounge. […]
The headline says “favorite,” not “best,” and I will not pretend to have allowed much in the way of objectivity to meddle with this list. Not in 2009, a difficult year, one that perhaps above any other I consumed music with my heart, not my head. It was a trying year, and probably for many […]
[Our weekly Stolen Lyric:] ||| Source: Local Natives, “Airplanes” ||| Live: Local Natives perform Tuesday at the Echo.
[Fun, festive fundraisers. Cool concerts. Punchy parties. And the Pity Party. This weekend has it all, and I must be quick so I can try to find my godawful-est sweater for the Christmas Sweater Festival on Saturday:] Tonight: Foreign Born [pictured] headlines Spaceland. I hope they use the sleigh bells if they play “Union Hall.” […]
Leave it to experimental duo the Pity Party to make one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in a while. Directed by Joaquin Poblete, “Wanting Want” is a collision of subversive images that support an equally subversive song, which features M (Marc Smollin) and Heisenflei (Julie Edwards) at their best. By the way, the pair […]
[File under: Things I have seen, heard or read:] There is plenty of intriguing music in the cooker for 2010, but one release I’ll be particularly interested in hearing is the album made by a band called Admiral Radley. The foursome is a collaboration between Earlimart’s Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray and Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle […]
