July 2011 – buzzbands.la

L.A. Buzz Bands show, tonight in the midnight hour

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Have a good weekend? Extend it by one hour – join me at midnight for the L.A. Buzz Bands show on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). Tonight I’m premiering new music by White Arrows, Butch Walker & the Black Widows and Just An Animal (more on them later), and mixing in some indie-, power- […]

Altadena

A day off

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We’re taking a badly needed day off – until tonight’s show on KCSN. For info about tonight’s Yuck, Bear Hands and Les Blanks shows (and more) visit You Set the Scene.

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Download: Mariachi El Bronx, ”˜48 Roses’

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Mariachi .. really. When the Bronx – one of the most deliciously uncompromising hardcore punk bands to emerge in the last decade – first donned their charro suits and morphed into Mariachi El Bronx, it felt like they were kidding. They weren’t, embarking on a foray into south-of-the-border flavors that turned out to be both […]

Ears Wide Open: Count Fleet

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You’d think the hills of Silver Lake and Echo Park were Appalachia judging from the amount of big-hearted folk music coming from the scene. The tunes of Count Fleet are exemplary – earnest and winsome, they feel like a hedge against high-tech city life, illusory social media friendships and button-pushing marketing campaigns. The duo of […]

Levitt 2024

Lady Danville: The voices of harmonic convergence

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When they began, Michael Garner, Dan Chang and Matthew Frankel – the three college buddies who make up Lady Danville – pretty much couldn’t “play” anything. Except their weapons of choice, of course, their voices. And those are three pristine instruments that, wielded individually or as one, have quickly earned the Los Angeles trio comparisons […]

Video: Ladytron, ‘White Elephant’

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There are a trunk full of layers in Ladytron’s video for “White Elephant,” the first single off the U.K. quartet’s suprisingly dreamy fifth album “Gravity the Seducer.” What’s the burden here, and whose burden is it? Where we can get the number of their costume designer? And how did we not get an invite to […]

Mp3-pack, Remixes Dept.: M83 (Christian Strobe), Metronomy (Clock Opera), White Denim (Bjorn)

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[The weekend is just around the corner. Prepare yourselves with some new remixes below…] M83, “Midnight City (Christian Strobe Remix)” – The new single from Anthony Gonzalez has been getting M83 fans in a tizzy with anticipation for the upcoming album, “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.” The original track boasts the French artist’s fine skills of […]

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