‣Best Bang For Your Buck Award goes to: Taylor Locke & the Roughs along with Sabrosa Purr and Miracle Parade at Bootleg Bar. It also gets my vote for the sexiest rock show of the night and, yes, I’m talking about the music and the musicians. ‣Aussie-to-L.A. seems to be a running theme this week. […]
‣Fishbone at the Bootleg Bar. Fishbone at the Bootleg Bar. The end. And while you’re at it, dig further into these OGs who have musically motivated many (No Doubt, Flea, ?uestlove, Les Claypool): narrated by Lawrence Fishburne, the documentary “Everyday Sunshine” fleshes out the storied history of the iconic punk/funk band. ‣The New L.A. Folk Fest […]
Waiting on the sunshine, but in the meantime let’s talk musical shop: ‣Nashville continues to bear solid musical fruit as Vandervelde parks it at the Echo tonight with harmonic folk/rock of tourmates The Fling (hello, Dangerbird Records). Locals Francisco The Man round out the bill and this combo has #win written all over it. P.S.: […]
It feels like Fall has finally arrived in L.A. Good thing we have all of this music to keep us warm. ‣ He goes by Gotye, but this Aussie-by-way-of-Belgium’s moniker should be “sold out” considering that’s the status of so many of his shows on his “Making Mirrors” tour including tonight’s show at the Satellite. Experimentally […]
Mondays in L.A. are worth so much more than the price of admission. Funny how so much that I want to see tonight is residency FREE. ‣I recommend that you do some additional stretching because night #3 of Youngblood Hawke’s Satellite residency gets even more hyper as it includes my Vegas-to-L.A. transplant loves, Imagine Dragons. FREE at The […]
Soulful Sunday. ‣Holy psychedelic soul, Batman! Van Hunt will bring his musical alchemy to the Troubadour stage tonight and I bet a life will be changed. This is #winning. ‣Empire of the Sun (Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore) are at Club Nokia and round out what’s been a good week of Aussie bands in Los […]
Post-Foo Fighter reporting, here. Happy Saturday. ‣Mr. Roxy Music himself, Bryan Ferry brings his suave majesty to the Greek Theatre. THIS is why we keep the likes of a Bryan Ferry around. ‣Foster The People do that thing that they do at the Wiltern along with the duo Cults. ‣I can already see the bodies […]
T.G.I.F., everyone, and here’s what we have to be thankful for. Musically. ‣Ben Gibbard & Co., a.k.a. Death Cab For Cutie, will be coding and keying at the Fox Theater in Pomona along with Zach Rogue’s (of Rogue Wave) new project, Release the Sunbird. ‣It’s worthy cause-time, and tonight’s cause is funding music programs in schools. “A […]
With our grizzled, show-weary head blogger lost somewhere in the Arizona desert, we’ve asked musician, DJ and longtime FOBB (Friend of Buzz Bands) John Girgus to sit in as host of the Buzz Bands LA show on Moheak Radio. Join him for a free-form, fun-filled two hours of music beginning today at 3 p.m.
Welcome to the Thursday Roundup. I call it that for no other reason than just because I can. ‣Ahhh, Foo Fighters at the Forum with Cage the Elephant and Mariachi El Bronx. Really don’t need to say much about this, do I? Do I? Just look at them… ‣Mercury Prize winners in 2010 for album of the […]
