Ears Wide Open: Hudson Stone
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The first song from singer-songwriter Michael Andrew Walker, former drummer of Echo Park indie-rockers NO, explores the finery of Americana and features a mystery collaborator.
NO, no more: Band changes name to Black English
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In a move that surprises no one, the Echo Park indie-rock band called NO has changed its name to Black English. “It just got to be too confusing,” frontman Bradley Hanan Carter [above] said last week of the disconnect between his band and a young pop-rock quartet also named NO (who will be opening for […]
SXSW 2014: Here’s what came up big for us this year (plus, a complete recap of all the bands we covered)
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SXSW 2014 was busier than ever and the Buzz Bands LA staff was once again running around covering as many bands as we could – as usual, leaving the A-list party-crashers to outlets in favor of the spirit of discovery we think the festival is all about. With the help of guest blogger Trina Green, […]
SXSW 2014: All right with the Strypes, smarter with Public Service Broadcasting and Brazil’s Boogarins
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[The snack chip saleslady played a show Thursday night, and a bunch of other attention-whoring A-listers were seen crashing SXSW as well. I missed them all and have no regrets, although the tearful fans left standing on Red River Street outside the snack chip saleslady’s show probably had some. Heard something about vomit. At least […]
Tonight in L.A.: NO, Gardens & Villa, Mirah, Datsik, the Entrance Band/La Luz, Solids, more
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Your Saturday goodies: ‣ NO headlines the Trouabdour with support form Reuben & the Dark and the Darcys. Check out NO’s video for “Leave the Door Open” from their album “El Prado.” ‣ Gardens & Villa play an L.A. date for the first time in a very long time at the El Rey Theatre. Expect […]
Video: NO, ‘Leave the Door Wide Open’
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With nods to Magritte and the Echo Park neighborhood that birthed the band, local sextet NO unveiled the video today for its dramatic single “Leave the Door Wide Open.” We begin at Origami Vinyl (happy fifth birthday to that record shop, by the way) and cross Sunset to El Prado, the craft beer and […]
The Week Ahead: March 3-9
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Incoming: Glasvegas, Howler, Run River North, Lucinda Williams, Moses Sumney, James Supercave, DA & the Jones, the Colourist, Fuel, Social Studies, Nacosta, Tosca, Leslie & the Lys, PAPA, the Wild Feathers, Skinny Puppy, 311, the Ataris, Gary Numan, Wild Beasts, Typhoon, the Casket Girls, San Fermin, Four Tet, JD Samson & Men, Nick Waterhouse, HIM, […]
Stream: NO, ‘Leave the Door Wide Open’
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In the first single from their forthcoming full-length debut, Echo Park sextet NO takes a very aw-shucks approach that that which they are doing: “We come together / we fall apart / we make some noise inside a room / and call it art,” Bradley Hanan Carter sings. Of course, in the right hands and […]
NO signs to Arts & Crafts; album due Feb. 17
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NO, the gravitas-wielding indie-rockers fronted by New Zealand expatriate Bradley Hanan Carter, have signed to Arts & Crafts. The Toronto-based label will release the Echo Park band’s debut full-length, “El Prado,” on Feb. 18. Carter, along with Sean Daniel Stentz, Reese Richardson, Ryan Lallier, Simon Oscroft and Michael Walker, came on the scene in late […]
Gallery: YACHT rocks the Troubadour, along with NO, James Supercave and White Rainbow
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Electro-pop campaigners YACHT were typically a spectacle on Thursday night at the Troubadour, drawing a big crowd into their world, their beliefs system and their unified cry for utopian state. After their performance, it is hard to think LA without Shangri-LA. Their encore featured their release, “Party at the NSA,” which singer Claire Evans explained […]
