[We’ll burn one this week with a Stolen Lyric favorite:] ||| Source: Neil Young, “Down by the River” ||| Live: Neil Young will be honored as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year at a gala benefit and performance tonight at the L.A. Convention Center, featuring Jack Black, Jackson Browne, T Bone Burnett, Crosby, Stills […]
It all looks so serious, this stuff from Broken Bells – the collaboration between Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) and the Shins’ James Mercer. (They talk about the project in a video interview with NME, in two parts.) The debut album is coming March 9, and this video for “The High Road” is the work […]
[In between all the Grammy prepping and posturing, there is a massive amount of live music to enjoy. Don’t know where to start, really, except to wish Justin Timberlake a happy birthday on Sunday – maybe he can take home one of those cute gramophone trophies from the big awards show …] Tonight: The big […]
[Not even a month into the new year, and Buzz Bands HQ is already swimming in new music. In the interest of servicing your iPods, I’ve batched several recent mailings into one post. These include two label samplers, a promo company’s sampler and Paste magazine’s Songs for Haiti vault. Happy clicking.] L.A.’s Dazzler covers the […]
If you haven’t live this moment, you’ve witnessed it: Singing with the headphones on, consumed by the song, oblivious to your surroundings. The scenario makes for an interesting conceptual video for Fol Chen’s song “The Longer U Wait” (off 2009’s Asthmatic Kitty release, “Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made”). The piece, filmed in India […]
[While sending out birthday wishes to Sam Phillips this morning, I’ll also tip you to her new subscription-based music and art project, Long Play, and to the fact that she’s guest-editing Magnetmagazine.com this week. … Now, on with tonight’s shows:] The Key Club is back in business, although not with a full schedule. I missed […]
Owing to the band having played 4,523 shows last year in southern California, and a few more at varying locales east of here, every avid showgoer on the Eastside has a favorite Local Natives song. “Airplanes” is mine. I liked it way back when (yes, that long ago); I like it now … something about […]
Venice-based the Dustbowl Revival sounds dusty, all right – the ensemble describes its take on orchestral folk “hillbilly jazz” and harks to an era when a washboard and kazoo were cutting-edge. The 10-member-strong group, fronted by Zach Lupetin, will release its sophomore album, “You Can’t Go Back to the Garden of Eden,” on March 16. […]
German quartet Lali Puna, one of the leading purveyors of the entrancing IDM for which German imprint Morr Music is known, is returning on April 1 with its first album in five years, “Our Inventions.” With the likes of Owl City making their watery strains of electro safe for “Twilight” fans, Lali Puna – fronted […]
Giant Drag, the on-again, off-again rock persona of Annie Hardy, is finally resurfacing. The “Swan Song” EP, which I believe was originally due out in 2008, is set for a Feb. 16 release, and director G.J. Echternkamp makes Hardy the target for everything from glitter to green beans in this video for “Stuff to Live […]
