Stream: ‘Nice as Fuck’ (Jenny Lewis, Erika Forster, Tennessee Thomas)
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Read why Father John Misty is overjoyed about Nice As Fuck, a new band from Jenny Lewis, Erika Forster, and Tennessee Thomas.
Strream: Raw Geronimo, ‘Magnetic Love’
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Raw Geronimo’s debut album “Dream Fever” sounds like the sum of many dreams, only some of them feverish. The band surfaced two years ago as the vehicle for the songwriting of multi-instrumentalist and sonic adventurer Laena Geronimo, whose exploits in myriad L.A. bands of both the pop and experimental variety inform the cerebral and visceral […]
Video: Raw Geronimo, ‘Faustine’
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Raw Geronimo’s platter of goth-y surf-pop comes with side orders of audacity and whimsy, all captured in Jacob and Clyde Blunt’s video for the sextet’s new 7-inch single “Faustine.” Raw Geronimo is the brainchild of Laena Geronimo, aka Laena Myers-Ionita, the bassist for the Like and a multi-instrumentalist who plays or has played with Swahili […]
This weekend: The Whigs/Everest, Active Child, Make Music Pasadena, the Like, Rooney, Janelle Monae
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[Sources say that Stephen Chen of the Airborne Toxic Event celebrates a birthday today. Meanwhile, Buzz Bands stumbles toward a busy weekend, completely in the mood for this DIY video from Sea of Bees’ Julie Baenziger for her songs “Gnomes”:] Top 5 reasons to solstice your summer a bit early this weekend: ‣ It’s a […]
Tonight in L.A.: The Young Veins, Miike Snow
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[Hello, hello … Anybody out there on a Monday holiday? No? Yes?] Add the Young Veins to the latest batch of groups diving into the Swell Sounds of the Sixties. Or Something Similar. The L.A.-based quintet, spearheaded by ex-Panic at the Disco dudes Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, conjoin a little British Invasion with a […]
Tonight in L.A.: Fyfe Dangerfield, Jack Johnson, more
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Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield’s solo album “Fly Yellow Moon” wavers between the romantic musings of a guy who’s rethinking his place in universe and the slightly unhinged psych-pop of a writer who can’t wait to get to the next hook. Good stuff, so good that you arch your eyebrows at the press release saying it […]
Silverlake Jubilee sets sail on Saturday and Sunday with 50 bands on 3 stages, plus food, arts and fun
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The Silverlake Jubilee arrives with a bang this weekend, the first-year music and arts festival bringing some 50 bands to a three-stage neighborhood fair featuring cutting-edge DJs, comedy, spoken word, film, art and fashion – not to mention three dozen or so food trucks to satiate attendees’ appetites. Buzz Bands LA has joined with Jubilee […]
Tonight in L.A.: Sweethead, War Tapes, the Like
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[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 […]
Downloads: The New Fidelity, ‘All Here Now’
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Bands that do mod come and go in Los Angeles, where Anglophiles can have a fine time without ever leaving the West Coast. Long Beach’s the New Fidelity have been doing it longer than most, and better. The sharp-dressed quintet’s the Who-meets-Squeeze power-pop motors like a Vespa through an L.A. traffic jam. It’s not necessarily […]
Tonight in L.A.: The Like, Fang Island, War Tapes
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[The party was apparently this past weekend in NYC – lost my invitation – but today is officially Bono’s birthday. And his 50th, at that. Those AARP discounts really help, pal. … Meanwhile, in L.A. tonight:] Pop-rock collagists Fang Island [pictured], who’ve been touring with L.A.’s Red Sparowes, check in for a 6 p.m. in-store […]
