September 2011 – buzzbands.la

Buzz Bands LA show, today at 3 on Moheak Radio

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What a crazy, mixed-up week it’s been. Today’s Buzz Bands LA show on Moheak Radio will be programmed accordingly, if you please. I’ll have new music from Incan Abraham, Holloys, Emperor X, the New Division, Gothic Tropic, Sea of Cortez and Fonda, along with some jams from Jonathan Wilson, Hanni El Khatib and Taylor Locke. […]

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Video: Jonathan Wilson, ‘Natural Rhapsody’

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Jonathan Wilson titled his new album “Gentle Spirit,” but you suspect it’s only because “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” was already taken. Wilson, the North Carolina-bred singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and keeper of the Laurel Canyon flame, has birthed a 78-minute opus that takes deep, long breaths, its lush orchestration and serpentine arrangements rewarding patient […]

Ears Wide Open: Gothic Tropic

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Like Fool’s Gold and Vampire Weekend, the new L.A. trio Gothic Tropic finds inspiration in world beats and exuberant guitars. The brainchild of Cecilia Della Peruti, who for the past two years has played with Rumspringa, Gothic Tropic takes a playful, lo-fi approach to the psych-pop on its four-song “Awesome Problems” EP, with guitar lines […]

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Video: The Polyamorous Affair, ‘Fantasy’

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The Polyamorous Affair’s sultry, subversive electro was made for dark places. And the Berlin-based duo of Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie, who not so long ago called L.A. home, go there in the video for “Fantasy,” which transfers the notion of appetite to someplace a little bit grisly. The single comes from 2010’s synth-laden “Strange […]

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Video: Hot As Sun, ‘The Desert Song’

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Hot As Sun’s blissed-out music exists only in small quantities so far – their four-song EP released last November – but the electro-popgazers anchored by Jamie Jackson and Deborah Stoll have more songs in the works. And their recent trip to New York to perform amid glitter and go-go dancers at artist Peter Tunney’s gallery […]

Ears Wide Open: Pony Boy

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Some may know Marchelle Bradanini as the “Pony” half of international DJ duo Pony vs. Tiger (with the other half being Natasha “Tiger” Noramly), who spins everything from Hot Chip to Os Mutantes to Orange Juice. However, Bradanini’s solo moniker Pony Boy zooms in on a sound that she considers “junkyard country music.” With smokey […]

Tonight in L.A.: A.A. Bondy, Gillian Welch, Ravi Shankar, Fool’s Gold, Jimmy Eat World, Dead Sara, Braids/Pepper Rabbit, Stephen Brower, Odd Future

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Quite a Thursday night ahead: ‣ A.A. Bondy headlines the Bootleg Theater behind his new album “Believers.” [See why we believed.] Nik Freitas, whose new album “Saturday Night Underwater” came out this summer, opens. ‣ Gillian Welch (pictured) headlines the Music Box behind the new album she made with Dave Rawlings, “The Harrow & the […]

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