Our celebration of the local music of 2011 continues today at 11 a.m. on Moheak Radio, when the Buzz Bands LA Show carries on with the countdown of BBLA’s favorite 100 local songs of the year. Last week we made it from No. 100 to No. 69, and this second week we’ll roar through a […]
Your fantastic Friday night: ‣ GV30 – the Goldenvoice/Gary Tovar celebration of 30 years of Los Angeles punk – kicks off three big night at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium with Social Distortion, X and the Adolsecents. ‣ Guitar virtuoso Charlie Hunter (pictured), on tour with drummer Scott Amendola, starts a two-night stand at the […]
When we last spotted Amy Wood, she was making racket on the port side of Big Black Delta’s two-female-drummer arsenal. That was just the last sighting, of course; she also commands the kit for White Sea, All Wrong and the Plans Change, the Broken Remotes, Lonely Trees and … aw, this’ll give you a good […]
Synth-pop crooner Evan Voytas has been honing his falsetto- and reverb-laden electro-pop ever since he landed in Los Angeles four years ago, but with each release, R&B and soul elements have grown luxuriously richer. So it’s no surprise his forthcoming “Feel Me” EP (out Jan. 24 via Dovecote Records) turns out to be his most […]
An abundance of excellent music came my way from the SoCal community in 2011. My favorite 20 albums follow, with some special mentions/recommendations beyond that. It was an especially rich year for folk-rock and singer-songwriter albums, not so much for hard rock. Most of the nouveau electro and experimental releases left me cold. I didn’t […]
Here’s the final installment of Buzz Bands LA’s favorite local albums of the year. Later today, I’ll post them in order, from No. 1 to 20, with some special mentions.
Thursday things: ‣ Black Star, the groundbreaking duo of Mos Def and Talib Kweli, do a makeup gig at Club Nokia for an L.A. date originally scheduled in October. ‣ The first night of the annual Invisible Children benefit concerts at the Troubadour features Jon Foreman (Switchfoot), Matt Pryor (the Get Up Kids), Aaron Gillespie […]
Here comes the third installment in my countdown of my favorite 20 local albums of the year. Did you miss the first two? Here they are: Nos. 20-16; Nos. 15-11.
The midweek mix: ‣ Dinosaur Jr. visits the Music Box to play its 1988 album “Bug” in its entirety, part of a show that will include a Q&A conducted by Henry Rollins and an opening set by Pierced Arrows. ‣ Alt-rockers Standing Shadows, who since October have released two in of a trilogy of EPs […]
Today: The second of four installments in the countdown of our favorite local albums of the year. [On Monday, Nos. 20 through 16.]
