Echo Park Rising started off in a big way, and by big we mean massive. Either we need to give a big thumbs up to the festival’s marketing team, or people were eager to devour a free Friday night of music. Perhaps it was also the fact that the fourth annual neighborhood festival started a […]
It’s Friday and you deserve some fresh indie pop. Enter Mount Saint, the fairly new band whose members include Brittany Tolman (formerly of Imagine Dragons), Drew Beck (Chasing Kings), brothers Clint and Riley Holgate and live drummer Andrew Tolman (also formerly of Imagine Dragons and currently in the Moth & the Flame). They have only […]
New York-born, Santa Monica-reared Johanna Samuels writes smart songs about the notion of emotional truth, the most important of which might be that there is no truth, only a hope for equilibrium. Her forthright and often disquieting style, first heard on 2012’s “Giant Fantasy Life” EP, was cultivated in the cafés of New York City, […]
Call this “Say Yes,” Take 3. When resurgent L.A. sextet Afternoons finally release their full-length, “Say Yes,” on Oct. 21, it will be a milestone for band, four of whom (Brian Canning, Steven Scott, Brent Turner and Aaron Burrows) comprised the pop quartet Irving back in the early ’00s. The band, which grew to include […]
Echo Park Rising, the free neighborhood festival that has extended from two days to three days, is just around the corner. Festivities will kick off Friday, Aug. 15 and continue through Sunday Aug. 17, and Buzz Bands LA is once again privileged to be curating one stage during the festival, in the Champagne Room at Taix […]
“Colors of the Cold,” the first song on dream-weaver Rocco DeLuca’s new album, somehow runs two temperatures at the same time, at once suggesting icy and distant while glowing with the warm ambiance concocted by producer Daniel Lanois. The song is but one example of the wizardry on the songwriter’s “Rocco DeLuca,” which comes out […]
Allah-Las will return Sept. 16 with their sophomore effort “Worship the Sun” via Innovative Leisure. To follow up their 7-inch single “501-415,” the psychedelic garage-rock quartet releases the video for its b-side “No Werewolf.” The tune itself is a cover of a song by the Frantics, but the video is actually the work of Russian […]
We first spotted WAZ as Pete Yorn’s guitarist way back when, and we last saw him co-directing musical traffic in the electro-pop trio Hot As Sun, with his wife Jamie Jackson. In between, the Cleveland native released two albums and an EP (2008-09) and carved out a swath as a composer for film and television. […]
Few boy/girl duos have negotiated the sometimes vast chasm between boy and girl as Annalee Fery and Christian Stone have on their self-titled debut album as Howls. On the album, which came out in May, the longtime collaborators – once of the Lonely Trees, and separately of Monsters Are Waiting and Campfire Girls, respectively – fashion brooding […]
Summer’s not over until Goldroom releases a new single, it seems. Songwriter/producer Josh Legg teams up with Australian vocalist Mammals on the breezy new “Till Sunrise,” a song that already has 30 remixes because of a campaign Legg did called “The Premix” – offering the song’s vocal stem for free download. The song, Goldroom’s first original […]
