Your massive Thursday: ‣ The free Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier roars back into action tonight with No Age – whose fourth album “An Object” is coming next month – and Tijuana Panthers. ‣ On another beach, the Faint, Twin Shadow and FMLYBND perform at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington […]
Tuesday’s schedule: ‣ Shiny Toy Guns play a sold-out show at the Echoplex behind their new album “III” (out this week), the quartet’s first new material since 2008 and a collection that marks the return of Carah Faye Charnow to the band. MNDR and Of Verona open the show; that’s STG’s new video for “Fading […]
Plenty of choices for your Tuesday: ‣ Mystical Swedish sister folk duo First Aid Kit stops by the Fonda Theatre to play songs off their album “The Lion’s Roar” (out now via Wichita Recordings). [That’s their video for “Wolf” above.] A set from Dylan LeBlanc precedes. ‣ British singer-songwriter turned folk-tronica pop star Ellie Goulding […]
Tonight’s full plate: ‣ First a word from Buzz Bands LA: It’s our SecondTuesday night at Lot 1 Cafe, headlined tonight by pop-rock quintet Troup, along with Paper Pilots and Mighty Forces. ‣ The Corin Tucker Band visits the Echo behind its new album “Kill My Blues.” Summer Twins and Branden Daniel & the Chics […]
‣ Garbage headlines the Palladium behind their new album “Not Your Kind of People,” with Screaming Females opening. ‣ The Shins visit the Gibson Amphitheatre of their acclaimed new album “Port of Morrow,” and joining them on this tour is Washed Out, the woozy electronic band fronted by Ernest Greene whose own new album “Within […]
The brother-sister pop confections of Blondfire made for a tasty Tuesday night at the latest edition of the KCSN/Buzz Bands LA local music series at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood. The L.A. based band anchored by Brazilian-American siblings Bruce and Erica Driscoll included their first single “Where the Kids Are,” as well as the […]
Blondfire, the brother-sister electro-pop duo who have just signed to Warner Bros. Records, heads up the lineup for the September edition of the KCSN / Buzz Bands LA local music series at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood. The band, anchored by Bruce and Eric Driscoll, will be joined by newcomers Western Scene and Go […]
Happy Sunday: ‣ Warm Weather headlines Bootleg Bar. Go West Young Man previews new tunes off their forthcoming album “Ages” [that’s video for 2009’s “The Covinas” above] and Drug Cabin open. ‣NYC’s Diiv and San Francisco’s Melted Toys play Part Time Punks at the Echo. ‣ And downstairs College, Anoraak and Electric Youth provide cinematic […]
Damin Suarez told me a while back that that Go West Young Man was going break up, but thankfully they have not. Purveyors of razor-sharp pop (and architects of a rather criminally overlooked album back in early ’09), GWYM earns high marks in pop’s old and new schools, with full-on keyboard and horn arrangements and […]
A packed house at the Echo on Tuesday witnessed a night of exuberant pop-rock headlined by Glacier Hiking and hosted by Buzz Bands LA. Kitten kicked off the evening, with 15-year-old frontwoman Chloe Chaidez affirming her band as a contender; Haim rocked the room with its outsized classic rock songs and rocker-girl attitude; Glacier Hiking’s […]
