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Ears Wide Open: Beat Club
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Beat Club has the beats, by golly, and they don’t sound like they came from some computer application. The new indie-dance trio is a little bit punk, a little bit garage and a heftier amount of disco, with ’80s-vintage bass lines rolling under scratchy guitar riffs. Beat Club is the new collaboration from ex-Low Vs […]

Tonight in L.A.: Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Thurston Moore, Duran Duran, Soft Pipes, the Dead Ships, Mariah McManus, Sleeper Agent
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Busy Tuesday for legends as well as locals: ‣ Emmylou Harris and Her Red Dirt Boys headline the Greek Theatre, with Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller supporting. Harris’ 21st album, “Hard Bargain,” came out in April. ‣ Steve Earle and the Dukes visit the House of Blues. Earle’s new album “I’ll Never Get Out of […]

Mp3-pack: Soft Pipes, Death Kit, Handshakes
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[New songs from bands we’ve previously posted about ”“ take these tracks along with you wherever you may be going (or staying) this holiday weekend…] Soft Pipes, “Sleeper” (via Pac-Sun) ”“ Anthony Polcino hasn’t been sitting still since his days as guitarist of Low vs. Diamond. In fact, he’s drawn quite a bit of attention […]

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Tonight in L.A.: Katy B/Rickie Lee Jones, Robert Francis/Jenny O., the Ross Sea Party, Stone Darling, Active Child/White Sea/Correatown
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Here are Monday’s mighty touts: ‣ Bardot brings two unique female artists to L.A. as part of their It’s A School Night series. Although Rickie Lee Jones is a legend in her own right for writing songs that cover every bit of the music spectrum, U.K.’s young Mercury Prize-nominated and pop-dubstep queen Katy B may […]

Tonight in L.A.: F*cked Up, WU LYF, Mike Bloom, Langhorne Slim, Mack Winston, Irontom/Gangi, Indigo Girls, Incan Abraham, Lovers Drugs
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Too much Tuesday: ‣ Canadian hardcore punks F*cked Up, their new album “David Comes to Life” (out in June) getting a lot of deserved accolades, visit the El Rey Theatre, with L.A.’s own Fidlar and Sacramento’s Trash Talk opening. That’s F*cked Up’s video for “Queens of Hearts,” above. ‣ WU LYF, the Manchester up-and-comers whose […]

Premiere: Soft Pipes, ‘Stay Pretty’
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Anthony Polcino emerged from the shadow of his role as guitarist in Low Vs Diamond last autumn, when, doing business as Soft Pipes, he self-released a very good homemade album “When You’re Done Here You Get to Go Home.” Since then, abetted by Christopher Pappas and Miracle Parade, Polcino has assembled a live band and […]

Levitt 2024

Mixtape: Wild Tonic, April 2011
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April sure was fun, wasn’t it? No sooner had we dispensed with our SXSW hangover than we were immersed in Coachella goings-on. But outside of the festivals, there were myriad good tunes landing in our inboxes, and Buzz Bands LA staff writer Seraphina Lotkhamnga (that’s @Seraphina_L to many of you) has compiled some of the […]

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