Details on funeral arrangements and a memorial service for Pablo Castelaz, the 6-year-old son of Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz who died of cancer on Saturday, have been posted on the PABLOg! website. In addition, it was announced today that the concert Wednesday night at the Echo featuring Dangerbird bands Eulogies and Bad Veins, along […]
Seems like Spaceland talent buyer Jennifer Tefft has been a fixture on Silver Lake scene since before there was a Silver Lake scene. She’s worked with thousands of bands along the way, and now some are rallying to help her raise funds to defray the daunting costs of medication for her ongoing battle with blood […]
Big night at the Hollywood Bowl, where Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood team up. … There’s really not too much strange about the Strange Boys [pictured] – except maybe that their take on “Nuggets”-era garage rock sounds so fresh. Touring behind their debut “The Strange Boys … And Girls Club,” the young Austin quartet hits […]
That rock cliché about smoky vocals took on a whole new meaning when Leslie Stevens and her band were recording their new album. It was 2008, and “the wildfires were raging,” Stevens says. “You could see on the hills, there were chunks of ash in the air, and you could smell it in the room.” […]
Pablo Castelaz, the 6-year-old son of Dangerbird Records founder Jeff Castelaz and Jo Ann Thrailkill, died Saturday after a long battle with bilateral Wilm’s Tumor, a rare form of children’s cancer. If you knew Pablo, or rooted and prayed for him as you followed his travails on the family’s PABLOg!, it was impossible not to […]
[Good morning … See the promo box in the first sidebar at right to win Ed Harcourt tickets for tonight …] Ed Harcourt, the Londoner who just released the gorgeous EP “Russian Roulette” [see last week’s post], plays an intimate show at downtown’s Bordello. … John Vanderslice [pictured], getting some of the best reviews of […]
Buzz Bands photographic contributor Kristy Sparow has relocated to Paris for a creative freshener, and in addition to adding an intercontinental edge to her portfolio, she will be sending this website occasional music-related galleries. In one of her first outings last week, she visited Olympia Hall, where L.A. songstress Juliette Commagere was opening for Ry […]
[Anybody else have a Michael Jackson hangover? Here’s an excellent obituary.] Today: The Vans Warped Tour [2008’s crowd, above] kicks off in Pomona. The past two years I live-blogged it and succeeded each time in finding something I liked. I’m passing on it this year, but it’s a pretty good bargain at under $35 a […]
Michael Jackson, the pop icon who was plotting a major comeback after several years of personal and legal woes, died today at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The reclusive star was 50. The L.A. Times has extensive coverage. Jackson, who arrived in the public conscious in the late 1960s as a kid singer with the […]
Sky Saxon [at right], frontman of the 1960s garage rockers the Seeds, died today in an Austin, Texas, hospital at age 63. Spinner has an obituary.
