He owes a lot to record stores: In the Buzz Bands LA interview, singer-songwriter Dylan Gardner talks about the trips and the trippiness that led him to his new project, Communicant. The band’s debut album is coming in 2020.
John Dragonetti, whom you might know as one-half of the Submarines, is reviving his Jack Drag moniker. “2018,” the first Jack Drag album in 16 years, will be out in September.
If Blake Hazard’s vocals on the new song “Before the Ice” don’t make you melt, the horns will. Her last solo album, “The Eleanor Islands,” came out in 2013.
Buzzbands.LA revisits 2006 through a playlist, a good year for local flavor.
The Submarines might be on the rocks, but there’s still music flowing from the duo of Blake Hazard (who released a solo album last year) and John Dragonetti. The latter is prepping an EP, due March 11, under the name … take a deep breath here … Hong Hong Kong Kong. Hey, at least it […]
Breaking up is hard to do, and writing about it can be even harder. It’s the task Blake Hazard undertook after her split with husband and collaborator in the Submarines, John Dragonetti. Hazard’s solo album “The Eleanor Islands” was largely written at her grandmother’s house in historic Padanaram, Mass., and recorded in Brooklyn and L.A. […]
[Happy weekend. Just a reminder that today is the day tickets go on sale for the Hollywood Bowl season. Yeah, including the National’s show on the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.] I don’t wanna say that if you aren’t out tonight you aren’t breathing, but it is the busiest Saturday night in recent memory: ‣ Their […]
The Submarines debuted in 2006 with “Declare a New State!” – a bedroom pop record about romantic entanglements and disentanglements. A fine slice of boy/girl indie it was, as was the 2008 follow-up “Honeysuckle Weeks” – undeniably sweet and with adult smarts, like candy that’s good for you. To hear the newest track from their […]
It’s nice to hear that three albums of marital bliss haven’t dulled the Submarines’ songwriting chops any. Starting with 2006’s “Declare a New State” and with “Honeysuckle Weeks” two years later, the husband-and-wife team of John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard have fashioned smart, sweetly melodic boy-girl pop delivered with big smiles and often subversive undertones. […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Glenn Tilbrook …] Top 4 spots tonight to have your ears on: ‣ Sacramento’s Julie Baenziger brings Sea of Bees to the Bootleg Theater tonight. That’s Sea of Bees’ video for “Marmalade,” above – I posted the song in June [see also my LA Weekly piece on Jules]. Sea […]
