The countdown of Buzz Bands LA’s favorite local songs of the 2010 winds up today on MoheakRadio. My weekly show kicks off at 3 p.m., and I’ll be playing the final 33 songs in the countdown. Listen in, won’t you? [Note: This show will be rebroadcast on Moheak at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28.] (PS–Commenters […]
Neither rain nor rain nor more rain could put a damper on Buzz Bands LA’s Holiday Happening on Tuesday night at the Echo. The show, which raised more than $750 for the Pablove Foundation, featured great sets by Lonely Trees, Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits, John Carpenter (top photo) and Non Ultra Joy. And an elf at […]
‣ Rockin’ with the fossils is one of our favorite L.A. rituals – at least the way that it’s done at the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays series. The festivities, which included honest-to-goodness intellectual activities followed by music (two live bands in the Diorama Hall, two DJs in the African Mammal Hall), kick off Jan. […]
Anybody going to a show tonight? It’s a light schedule, but here are some tips: LA Font plays the Mountain Bar in Chinatown. … Gun Runner (pictured) brings its “psychedelic cowboy rock” up from San Diego to play the Silverlake Lounge. … At the Smell, it’s Tommy Santee Klaws and Manhattan Murder Mystery. … And […]
It’s a shorter show schedule as we wind down toward the holiday: ‣ Tricky winds up an 11-date tour behind his latest album “Mixed Race” with a show at the Troubadour. That’s his video for “Murder Weapon,” a remake of the 1990s dancehall hall hit, above. Nocando opens tonight’s show. ‣ Hip-hop whiz kids Odd […]
[A moment of pause on what would have been Frank Zappa’s 70th birthday …] Top 4 shows tonight if you miss out on that secret Foo Fighters gig: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s Holiday Happening at the Echo features Lonely Trees (pictured), Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits, John Carpenter and Non Ultra Joy. Proceeds to the Pablove Foundation. […]
[File under: Missives from the Buzz Bands Promotions Dept.:] In addition to the four excellent bands performing at the Buzz Bands LA Holiday Happening on Tuesday night at the Echo, our merch table will be offering a special on stocking-stuffers. We’ve thinned Buzz Bands’ overflowing shelves of CDs and assembled a box of promos and […]
[This will be my final downloads installment of the year. Judging from my backlog of e-mail and mp3s, I’m about 200 posts short of sharing with you all the new stuff that I’d like to. Sigh … Later this week, a year-end roundup.] The indelible synth-pop of Stephen Becker – d/b/a Le Concorde – was […]
Tonight’s top 4 reasons to grab an umbrella and go: ‣ It’s the live debut of Middle Brother – the collaboration between John McCauley of Deer Tick, Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes [see our post last week] – at the Troubadour as part of the big benefit for Invisible Children. […]
Don Van Vliet, the musician and artist known as Captain Beefheart, died today at age 69 of complications from multiple sclerosis. See the story on RollingStone.com. The scheduled Captain Beefheart symposium, hosted by guitarist Gary Lucas, will go on as scheduled Jan. 13 (two days before what would have been Captain Beefheart’s 70th birthday) at […]
