[Since I can’t be everywhere at once, I cajoled Friend of Buzz Bands Brian O’Neal into reporting on what was one of the final rock shows at the Derby.] By Brian O’Neal This weekend, the last notes of live music will ring from the stage of the Derby, the legendary room known for its connections […]
[Holy cow, kids, I’m running behind today because of the Coachella lineup frenzy. Birthday greetings today go out to Phil Collins, who is not playing Coachella – that we know of. And here’s some weekend shows; I’ll update this post later, so check back, please …] Tonight: Franz Ferdinand’s 7 p.m. set at Amoeba [which […]
Headliners for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival include Paul McCartney, the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, the Killers, Franz Ferdinand and Morrissey. The festival just posted the full lineup for the three-day event April 17-19 in Indio. Among the other performers: X, Paul Weller, Amy Winehouse, Public Enemy, TV on the Radio, the Yeah […]
This might seem like merely an excuse for me to publish another one of my photos from Coachella 2008, but it’s not. KROQ-FM has announced they will have the lineup for this year’s festival on Friday’s morning show. That is all. For now.
At its recent performance at Check One Twosday at the Echoplex, L.A. six-piece Castledoor unveiled a raft of impressive new material – including the soaring ballad “Hush.” Spaceland Recordings is offering a free download of the live track. Here’s the video … you can do the download thing right here.
The latest album from Australian quartet Youth Group [pictured], “All This Will Pass,” will finally get a U.S. release on April 7, via World’s Fair and the Aussie imprint Ivy League. The band’s swoon-worthy Britpop made a mark here – at least with me – on “Skeleton Jar” (2004, Epitaph) and “Casino Twilight Dogs (2006, […]
Modest Mouse has announced a 12-date tour that includes a Feb. 24 stop at the Hollywood Palladium, with sometimes-L.A. resident and ex-Grandaddy guitarist Jim Fairchild rejoining the band. Fairchild, who’s completed but not released his sophomore album as All Smiles, takes the place of ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr – who, when not involved in academic […]
[Bluesman Jonny Lang will always seem like a teenager to me; hard to believe he’s turning 28 today. Although tht stillmakes him a whiz kid to me …] Nikolai Fraiture [pictured] of the Strokes – under the nom de tune Nickle Eye – released his debut “The Time of the Assassins” this week, and while […]
Nope, nothing new on the Coachella lineup in the last hour. Here, however, is some nice festival news: Atmosphere [pictured], Tech N9ne, Living Legends, Brother Ali and B-Real have been announced as the acts to head up the fourth annual Paid Dues independent hip-hop festival on March 28 at the NOS Events Center in San […]
So this wait for the Coachella lineup is agonizing, isn’t it? I confess that I don’t have a single ounce of insight – although I did do spit take last night when somebody said, “Dude, did you hear about Phish?” Which, considering how some thought our beloved festival in Indio jack-johnsoned the shark last year, […]
