[Happy birthday to OK Go’s Timothy Nordwind. As for tonight …] My top 5 reasons to extend your weekend by a day: ‣ We Barbarians wind up what has been an exhilarating Spaceland residency (Kissing Cousins are among the support bands tonight), and you might even get a special cameo. Last week, Nathan Willett of […]
[It’ll be blog lite here on Buzz Bands today as I am on assignment at a festival. I’ll have some goodies on the weekend. Meanwhile, enjoy Interpol:] Interpol returns to indie label Matador for its fourth album (self-titled), which is due Sept. 14. It’s been three years since “Our Love to Admire,” and “Lights,” the […]
[It’s our weekly Stolen Lyric, doll:] ||| Source: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, “I Learned the Hard Way” ||| Live: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, supported by the Heavy, play Saturday at the Wiltern.
[What a weekend ahead. Festivals, great big shows, great small shows, George Michael’s birthday … There’s a lot to mention here, so follow along.] Two festivals that have plenty of you buzzing: ‣ Electric Daisy Carnival, today and Saturday at Exposition Park and the L.A. Coliseum. [Set times here.] ‣ Vans Warped Tour, today at […]
The Electric Daisy Carnival kicks off a delirious two days of dance music today at Exposition Park and the L.A. Coliseum, and if last year’s event is any indication it’ll be a festival for the books. Last year, EDC’s first as a two-day event, the event drew more than 200,000 revelers combined. This year’s lineup […]
Jeff Morisano had an idea for a book, and it’s turned into an album. Morisano, a 25-year-old Connecticut native based in Santa Monica, originally wrote the music – that he’s now released as Kissed Her Little Sister – for a limited-edition volume distributed through NYC-based The Underground Library, a maker of handmade, hard-bound books. His […]
When I talked to Alex Ebert before Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros began their worldwide crusade, he allowed as how there were some Ima Robot songs in the archives, some material recorded while the dance-punks were in label limbo after 2006’s “Monuments to the Masses,” their sophomore album for Virgin Records. Now Ima Robot […]
Photos, recap by Andrew Herrold Words and pictures can only go so far as to fully encompass what happened Tuesday night at the Mayan Theatre. At 9:45 Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello took the stage clutching an acoustic guitar. Beginning by strumming “Illumination” off their third album, “Gypsy Punks,” the rest of the members began […]
Top 4 reasons my dog will miss me tonight: ‣ Fitz & the Tantrums wind up their Spaceland residency; it’s the last chance to catch them before their July 15 appearance at the Hammer Museum as part of the Also I Like to Rock series. ‣ Speaking of soul men, Eli “Paperboy” Reed plays the […]
The Good Listeners have made three albums of good listening, but the Los Angeles duo – Clark Stiles and Nathan Khyber – have always been as much about the process as the product. Their debut “Ojai” was written and recorded, one song per day, at a small house in that town; their second album “Crane […]
