Deepest appreciation to all Buzz Bands LA readers and supporters for making 2011 a banner year. Here’s hoping your holidays are safe and happy: Download and enjoy BBLA’s “45 Minutes of Xmas,” a mixtape of holiday tunes that include some new compositions, some originals that have been favorites of mine for several years and a […]
[Birthday shout-outs today to the legendary Robbie Robertson, local rocker Andy Siara and blogger-in-arms Justin Gage/Aquarium Drunkard …] If the schedule seems a bit light tonight, don’t worry. By the end of the week, you’ll be crushed: ‣ Nashville-based quartet the Greencards – with their fifth installment of “newgrass,” titled “The Brick Album,” just released […]
Here’s a little midweek detour into the mainstream for you: Anya Marina’s sweet ballad “Satellite Heart.” The song is on the soundtrack to the movie “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” which its bazillion-dollar advertising budget tells me will debut Nov. 20. I could care less about the movie; I’m more liable to be (in fact, […]
A busy night just got busier – Australian rockers Wolfmother are playing a surprise show [update: at 6 p.m.] at the Roxy. It’s for Yahoo! Music, and Andrew Stockdale [pictured] and his (new) bandmates, who teased L.A. audiences with a show back in April at the Natural History Museum and who crashed last weekend’s Sunset […]
[Birthday cheers to Fran Healy of Travis. And speaking of cheers, it’s hard to go wrong if you go out tonight:] The free “Also I Like to Rock” series winds up its run at the Hammer Museum with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros playing from their recently released album of ’60s-styled anthems, “Up From […]
In their early days, the 88 used to get compared a lot to the Kinks. Now, as they showed on last year’s “Not Only … But Also,” they’ve come into their own, and three albums into their career they can flex their musical muscles any which way. Tonight at the Key Club, the L.A. outfit […]
[Birthday cheers today for Emmylou Harris, who, via her website, points well-wishers to her favorite charity, the Keeta Fund …] It’s a massive evening for shows, starting with biggies like Lily Allen at the Wiltern and Will Oldham, as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, at the El Rey Theatre. … It’s almost criminal that Billy is playing […]
[Notes from Saturday afternoon’s wandering at South by Southwest …] The Features (at the Troubadour Saloon) – It’s been going on five years since Nashville quartet the Features released “Exhibit A,” a racehorse guitar-and-synth album that, to me, seemed Exhibit A for very good work disappearing in major-label mire. (Hot Hot Heat blew up, this […]
Fol Chen, “Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made” (today, Asthmatic Kitty) – As with his previous project Bedroom Walls and its self-christened genre appellation “romanticore,” Adam Goldman remains just as much about creating mythos as music. Oh, he’s still twee as heck, and every bit the art-schooler, only cleverer now. He goes by Samuel […]
[Happy 70th birthday to Ray Manzarek, the pride of DePaul University …] Busy, busy busy: Besides the sold-out concert at the Music Box @ Fonda featuring the Airborne Toxic Event, the Henry Clay People and Rademacher, there are a couple nice record-release shows: Lemon Sun [pictured] rocks the Troubadour in support of its latest, “Run […]
