If you dress to impress at the Henry Clay People’s second annual Rock and Roll Circus tonight, you score a sampler CD with songs from some of the participating bands. It’s a nifty mix, so in the interests of giving you a sample of the sampler, I’ve appropriated 10 of the tracks for The Buzzsicle, […]
Regrets, Buzz Bands has a few. One from 2010 was missing the Local Natives/the Love Language shows in September at the Music Box. The former band, of course, was a known quantity here, but the openers, a five-piece from North Carolina, are a lot of fun too. Their album “Libraries,” released on Merge in July, […]
Fans of the first two albums of wiry, bluesy music from Long Beach’s Cold War Kids might be reaching for their stereo controls when they hear the quartet’s third, “Mine Is Yours” (due Jan. 25). The foursome worked with big-time producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, Norah Jones and Modest Mouse) on the […]
By Rich Thomas I can’t remember a time when this much quality electronic music was going off in one weekend. Voodoo Experience in New Orleans and Moogfest 2010 in North Carolina are your places to be in the South and the East, but if you’re here in L.A., you need to be at HARD Haunted […]
Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes has upped the ante on latest album “False Priest” with a fuller, more bass-heavy sound owed in no small measure to producer Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Kanye West), who has ratcheted the extrovert singer’s lo-fi recordings into much deeper sonic territory. Barnes’ supporting cast has also been given an upgrade, […]
[What a weekend: Gavin Rossdale, Grace Slick and my wife (hello there) celebrate birthdays on Saturday. Meanwhile, this Halloween, I’m dressing as invisible.] Top 4 local shows: ‣ The Henry Clay People’s second annual Rock and Roll Circus goes off tonight at the Echoplex (free mix CD if you dress up), with the Little Ones, […]
A lot of musical traffic has coursed down Silver Lake Boulevard since that band with the confrontational name – the Negro Problem – held down the very first monthly residency*** at Spaceland in September, 1996. In the middle part of last decade, the beloved L.A. band anchored by Stew (born Mark Stewart) and Heidi Rodewald […]
Dig this: New York City four-piece the Dig – not to be confused with old ’90s faves Dig – named their band in honor of the movie “Dig,” the Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols documentary. (I know, that’s a lot of Digs in one sentence.) The Dig’s sometimes-atmospheric, always-hooky indie-rock only has a little bit in […]
Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett and their whimsical collective Gorillaz regaled a sold-out Gibson Amphitheatre with a visually gripping performance on Wednesday night that featured guest appearances from the like of Lou Reed, De La Soul, Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon, Miho Hatori and Bobby Womack. Photographer Carl Pocket sends along this gallery.
Tonight’s top show for people who don’t feel like paying for a show: ‣ Mini Mansions – the brainchild of Michael Shuman (Queens of The Stone Age) along with Zach Dawes and Tyler Parkford – unveil their self-titled debut album next week on Josh Homme’s Rekords Rekords imprint. It’s a quirky but intoxicating stew of […]
