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When Chicago natives Empires made their debut album “Howl” available online in 2008, it was downloaded 15,000 times in its first week of release. Now, even allowing for the fact that they were giving it away, those are still impressive stats for an unsigned and relatively unknown band. Fast-forward a couple of years, and the […]
Review and gallery by Laurie Scavo Band of Horses could not have have brought their pastoral music to more picturesque location than the tree-lined alcove of the Greek Theatre on Saturday night. Too bad lead singer Ben Bridwell could not have brought his best voice. Bridwell, his normally soaring tenor cracking round the edges, joked […]
How was your weekend? Thanks to everybody who tweeted about how cool the Abbot Kinney Festival was – suffice to say it was substantially cooler than the 109-degree temperatures Saturday and Sunday at the Epicenter Festival in Fontana. Or, “Funtana,” as Bad Religion’s Jay Bentley called it. I covered Epicenter for SPIN.com, witnessing a strong […]
[It’s Lil Wayne’s birthday, but there probably won’t be much of a party in Rikers Island, where he’s currently doing time. Over the weekend, Eminem led the Epicenter Festival crowd in chants of “Free Lil Wayne.” Come November.] Top 6 shows on an inordinately busy and usually warm Monday night: ‣ The Black Keys tee […]
It’s hard to believe, given the tropical haze that permeates the early material from L.A.’s Lord Huron, that Ben Schneider wrote the first batch of his songs last spring on a getaway to shores of Lake Huron in his native Michigan. Lord Huron’s debut EP “Into the Sun” is meticulously layered pop excursion, shrouded in […]
Singer-songwriter Meiko may have been reared in the rural South, but in many ways she got her education at the Hotel Cafe, where she worked as a server. As a fellow veteran of the food service industry, then, Buzz Bands LA submits to you this necessary song, “You Gotta F*ckin’ Tip.” Meiko, by the way, […]
Therapy Session, the musical brainchild of singer-songwriter Joel Michalak, is pretty good medicine if your tastes lean toward ’90s radio hitmakers, but Michalak’s album “Burning Bridges & Building Walls” finds an even sweeter spot on stripped-down numbers such as “The Other Way Around.” Yes, Michalak’s homemade, guerilla-style video for the song steals its own punchline […]
[Massive weekend ahead, but not so big that we shouldn’t pause to wish Janet Weiss a happy birthday – and note that she’s in a new band, Wild Flag, coming to Spaceland on Nov. 19:] Top 4 shows near and dear to my L.A.-centric heart: ‣ Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits celebrate their EP release tonight at […]
