EPs can be funny little beasts. They often serve as kind of a hi-how-ya-doin’ introduction rather than a broad artist’s statement – a handful of songs, a particular single, maybe a remix or three, a taste of what is to come. They vary so much in breadth they are difficult to review. So the Buzz […]
“I’m still trying to make sense of it all,” Daniel Ahearn says of the past two years, which have seen the end of the L.A. singer-songwriter’s marriage, his growing into his new role as father, the birth of a new musical project with Mindy Jones and, in general, a spike in his songwriting career that […]
Folk-pop duo DA & the Jones cultivates the she-and-him intimacy of conversations that could take place long-distance on the telephone or across the pillow. Their full-length debut “Sirens” (out March 4) was produced by Mocky (Feist, Jamie Lidell) is the work of collaborators Daniel Ahearn and Mindy Jones, familiar for as solo artists and, recently, […]
Mindy Jones has proven a versatile vocalist, whether plying her trade with Moby on his latest album “Innocents” or teaming with Daniel Ahearn in both the folk and pop incarnations of Daniel Ahearn & the Jones. She steps out on her own, as The Jones, on a forthcoming EP, which is anchored by the single […]
As Daniel Ahearn & the Jones, Ahearn and Mindy Jones traded in the serenely beautiful acoustic folk characterized by generations of boy/girl duets. But shifting landscapes and creative urges moved the duo into new territory as they work on their full-length debut “Sirens” (due in 2014) with producer Mocky. Hence, the new “Electric Love” EP, […]
‣ If it’s the first Sunday of the month, that means Daniel Ahearn and the Sunday Night Jones will be playing at the Satellite. L.A. band Taylor Locke & the Roughs and Canadian alternative folk-rock band Deep Dark Woods [See “West Side Street” ] also join in on the fun. ‣ Judson McKinney celebrates the […]
Plenty of Sunday fun: ‣ If it’s the first Sunday of the month, then it must be time for the Sunday Night Jones at the Satellite. Hosted by Daniel Ahearn and the Jones (and co-presented by Buzz Bands LA), tonight’s installment is headlined by Liz Clark, the Denver-born singer-songwriter cultivated her craft in the New […]
‣ Ari Shine brings his new power-pop to the Sunday Night Jones series at the Satellite tonight. That’s his video for “Ship in a Bottle” above. [Make sure to grab “It’s A Go.”] Also, Daniel Ahearn and the Jones play in addition to Americana-folk collective Eagle Rock Gospel Singers who round out the bill for […]
[No tantrums today – it’s Fitz’s birthday. Cheers to Michael Fitzpatrick on the eve of his band’s big homecoming show at the Music Box:] Tonight’s flurry of activity: ‣ This week’s installment of the free Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum will sizzle with a little joie de pop – headlining […]
It’s a full-up Friday: ‣ U2. The scrappy band from Ireland. Angel Stadium. ‣ The Wooden Birds, the latest project from American Analog Set’s Andrew Kenny, bring something of an all-star lineup to the Echo for a show in support of their new album “Two Matchsticks.” Kenny’s lineup is populated by three members of Matt […]
