Lavender Diamond adds another beacon of hope to its catalog — “Real Life I Love You” features backing vocals from My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and was produced by Nigel Harrison. Lavender Diamond plays the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre on Saturday backed by a 10-piece orchestra.
Presenting “Popular With Us: Buzz Bands LA’s Favorite Albums of the Year,” served here as 20 genre-spanning main courses with our usual list of “honorable mentions” offered as side dishes.
Highlighting three notable new albums released Friday: Lavender Diamond, Grandson and Magic Wands. Stream them all.
Catching up with recent, notable singles from Joyeur, Chris Pierce, Lavender Diamond and Seahaven.
The resolutely sanguine “This Is How We Rise” is the lead track on Lavender Diamond’s new album “Now Is the Time,” which arrives in December. It’s their first full-length since 2012.
Lavender Diamond is back with their first single in more than eight years — “Look Through the Window” features Beck Stark’s crystalline vocals back by an eight-piece orchestra.
Incoming: Chinatown Summer Nights, Echo Park Rising, H2O Music Festival, Buskerfest, the Peach Kings, Yeasayer, Deap Vally, San Cisco, Kopecky Family Band, Rick Ross, Natalie Cole, Kopecky Family Band, Jamie N Commons, the Neighbourhood, the English Beat, Mamak Khadem, No Age, Jonas Brothers, Queens of the Stone Age, Lavender Diamond, Daniel Bedingfield, Ulrich Schnauss, Best […]
Thursday’s things: ‣ Frank Turner does his second L.A. night, this one at the Hotel Cafe (where Noah Gundersen, Wake Owl, Andy Shauf and Said the Whale also perform). Above is the video for Turner’s new single “Recovery,” off his forthcoming album “Tape Deck Heart” (due April 23). ‣ Youngblood Hawke does a sold-out show […]
[iframe width=”450″ height=”253″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/PilVAqMMSnc” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>[/iframe] Incoming: Sinkane, Alpine, Harriet, Hunter Hunted, Harper Simon, Marcus Foster, Spain, Maserati, Amanda Palmer, Frank Turner, the View, Black Label Society, Youngblood Hawke, the James Hunter Six, Lavender Diamond, Laidback Luke, Swedish House Mafia, Moe, Johnny Gill, Darwin Deez, Matt & Kim, Flogging Molly, Efterklang, the Men, Buckcherry, Pennywise, […]
What a year. More than 140 Los Angeles-sired albums passed through the Buzz Bands LA headphones this year, not counting EPs, mixtapes and singles. Judging from the detritus at my desk – handwritten lists, stacks of CDs, press releases – and my unopened emails, there were a lot more out there. It came in all […]
