Mark your calendar: Three photographers whose work I have been privileged to publish at varying times on Buzz Bands LA are mounting an exhibition beginning Friday at Ballard’s Artwork Framing & Gallery (1568 Sunset Blvd.) in Echo Park. The group show will feature a mix of portraiture, performance and candid photographs by Sterling Andrews, Jeff […]
U.K. shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire became honorary Silver Lakers during the year or so they spent recording in Los Angeles, and you can hear a little of the neighborhood’s finest, Silversun Pickups, in APOF’s new album “Road Eyes” (due Oct. 5). Searing guitars, big choruses, ear-splitting effects – it’s an updated slice of heaven […]
Tape magazine photos of three decades’ worth of rock radio hitmakers to a wall. Throw darts. Book bands. That’s the only plausible explanation for the lineup at this weekend’s Epicenter Festival at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, which features (among a boatload of artists that critics consider a pox on the land) a Saturday […]
After his two- (and sometimes four-) piece the Voyeurs went quietly into the night, singer-keyboardist Jonathan Hylander embarked on a solo project that would be come to known as Honey Loving Cells. He released a song per week this summer, culminating in this debut EP – and also collaborated with Wendy Wang (the Sweet Hurt) […]
[Caution: This video contains brief nudity. If you’re the type to be offended by this, or if you’re my 14-year-old niece, please click here and be generous.] I submit this to you not only because I think the cover is great (and friends of mine will be swooning over that song when Band of Horses […]
[Happy 40th today to Ani DiFranco …] Top 3 places to fill your ears tonight: ‣ Globe-trotting world-beat phenoms Fool’s Gold play their first L.A. club show since December (though if you were lucky, you caught their too-short set at the Hollywood Bowl in June) at the Troubadour, with Wallpaper and Rainbow Arabia supporting. ‣ […]
[I had hoped to post this early in the week to preview the Charlatans UK’s L.A. show, but as you may have read, the band’s U.S. tour, including a scheduled stop tonight at the El Rey, has been postponed after drummer Jon Brookes collapsed onstage in Philadelphia last week. He is being treated for a […]
It was a night of comings and goings at Eastside clubs on Tuesday night. At the Bootleg Theater, the Belle Brigade – a sextet populated by talent familiar on the L.A. scene playing to a crowd dotted by musicians with whom they’ve shared stages – announced themselves as folk-rock contenders with a set of exuberant, […]
There’s nothing very black-metal or goth about Dark Dark Dark, a chamber-folk band from Minneapolis. Using clarinet, strings, accordion and banjo the band ventures into spooky territory from time to time, but it’s the stuff of dreams more than death, and love more than monsters. Songwriters Nona Marie Invie (piano) and Marshall Lacount (banjo) create […]
[Happy birthday, Joan Jett. Now for a busy Thursday night …] Top 5 places to be tonight (at one time, if you’re really good): ‣ Maybe you remember Cloud Cult’s raucous set at Coachella in 2009. Maybe you like to see live painting onstage while a band performs. Maybe you’re heard the Minneapolis art-pop collective’s […]
