Troup, the L.A.-based pop-rock quintet fronted by Welsh singer-guitarist Alex Troup, heads up the lineup for Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday night on Oct. 9 at Lot 1 Cafe. The band will joined by Paper Pilots and Mighty Forces. Troup earlier this year released their tuneful “Last Chance for Romance,” and album that reflects the songwriter’s […]
[This belated Monday missive is brought to you by my holiday weekend hangover:] Top 5 reasons to mumble “Hawl-uh-day, what hawl-uh-day?” and venture out tonight: Four promising residencies kick off: Folk-rockers Mississippi Man at the Echo (Rumspringa opens); Summer Darling (whose debut is coming out digitally Tuesday on Origami) at Spaceland (Twilight Sleep supports); the […]
Top 3 reasons to fly your music flag on Flag Day: ‣ The loaded lineup at tonight’s We Barbarians residency at Spaceland, which includes Long Beach folk-rockers the Fling and O.C. five-piece the Union Line [pictured], as well as Sucker for Pumps. ‣ The loaded lineup at tonight’s Line and Circle residency at the Silverlake […]
[Cheers to Josh Homme on his 37th birthday – maybe his QOTSA bandmate Troy Van Leeuwen will raise a glass to him at Spaceland tonight …] Van Leeuwen’s quartet Sweethead continues its residency at Spaceland, and also on that side of town it’s the second week of the Like’s stint at the Echo (Jail Weddings […]
It’s the final night of the March residencies: Warpaint, the L.A. quartet whose star continued to rise at SXSW and whose debut album is due out in late summer/early fall, joins the party tonight at Spaceland for Moonrats‘ residency. … At the Silverlake Lounge, Square on Square and Model/Actress support Seaspin at its finale. … […]
I’ve said it before – there’s no propriety in reviewing your own show. But to my ears, Decembering With Buzz Bands LA on Wednesday night at the Echo was a big hit, from the soaring, uplifting melodies of Square on Square, to the gritty, Dylan-flavored rock of KAV, to the layered roar of the rejuvenated […]
Music doesn’t feel so much like a business to Evan Slamka these days, and the Los Angeles singer-songwriter likes it just fine. With his new quintet Square on Square, Slamka has emerged from three-plus years of personal reflection and creative regeneration that followed the dissolution of Majorie Fair, which released one excellent album (“Self Help […]
[Happy birthday to Nelly Furtado … Happy club-hopping to all my favorite people:] Gee, where shall I begin tonight’s show rundown? Shamelessly, I will note that tonight is the Decembering With Buzz Bands LA show at the Echo [click on flyer at right for info; RSVP list closes at 3:30], featuring Square on Square (9 […]
Kavin Sandhu’s music might be all volleys and daggers, booze and swagger, but take him out of his native England and station him in Los Angeles for a year, and he’s more than a little bit wonder-struck. “It really does inspire me on a day-to-day basis,” the singer-guitarist and architect of the rock band KAV […]
Three years ago, weary from touring and wan from the chasm separating their dreams and reality, Jim Evens and his bandmates in L.A. trio Helen Stellar decided to take a little break. They’d just had a song in the Cameron Crowe movie “Elizabethtown” and released “A Prayer to Myself,” a compilation of their first three […]
