Ready, Art Brut? Because Los Angeles wasn’t, of course. ||| Photos by Debi Del Grande The U.K. quintet brought its winking, self-referential (and self-pillorying) garage rock to town over the weekend, and judging from their hastily arranged show early Saturday evening at the Satellite, they were all pent up with no place to go. It […]
[No Junction today, but plenty of functions:] ‣ Everest and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit are the main-stage attractions at the third annual Buskerfest, going off in the East Village Arts District of downtown Long Beach. Two Guns, Pawnshop Kings and Jay Buchanan are among the artists performing throughout the evening on three others stages. […]
Bands who were all dressed up for Sunset Junction and now have nowhere to go scrambled to find other gigs this week in the wake of the festival’s cancellation. Talent buyers with holes in their weekend schedules suddenly have myriad options. Here’s what’s on our radar (Thursday morning updates in red, Thursday afternoon updates in […]
[Local festival notes …] ‣ Quite a lineup for this year’s Make Music Pasadena, the one-day festival June 18 that features some 300 artists at more than 30 venues in the City of Roses. The Morning Benders (pictured), Ra Ra Riot and Best Coast top the diverse bill, which also includes Saint Motel, Jenny O, […]
As the main man in his tongue-twisting side project Everybody Was in the French Resistance … Now!, Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos launches verbal volleys at some well-known pop songs. The video for “G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N.” – off the band’s forthcoming album “Fixin’ the Charts (Volume One)” – features partner-in-rhyme (and girlfriend) Dyan Valdes, keyboardist of the […]
For somebody who wields his wit like a flamethrower and his couplets like hand grenades, Eddie Argos sure was nervous on Friday night at the Echo. The droll narrator of the U.K. quintet Art Brut was performing on the QT, billed as “Hot Sauce Mentor.” He was, in fact, debuting the music of his new […]
Eddie Argos [pictured last year at Spaceland], who as the frontman of U.K. quintet Art Brut put the rapier wit in rock, is getting ready to unveil the side project he has with his girlfriend Dyan Valdes, keyboardist in the L.A. quartet the Blood Arm. Its unruly name is Everybody Was in the French Resistance […]
I have only to glance at Stereogum’s post on the most anticipated albums of 2010 to be assured that next year will be better than 2009, when my most-visited album was the Stone Roses’ reissue. [Heartfelt thanks again to the person who gifted me that; you know who you are.] That said, ’09 had some […]
[Sorry this is a little late today – tech problems in Buzz Bands land …] Brooklyn three-piece the Antlers, riding a wave of critical love from Pitchfork (among others) for their album “Hospice,” are about to embark on a big tour supporting Minus the Bear (including a Tuesday date at the Glass House in Pomona). […]
[Why, it’s Paula Abdul’s birthday today. Isn’t that nice …] Today: A seriously busy weekend gets started with the seriously beautiful orchestral maneuvers of Grizzly Bear, who are joined by Here We Go Magic to play a (very) sold-out show at the Wiltern. … It’s also opening night at the Hollywood Bowl, where the Bowl […]
