The live music at last weekend’s Moon Festival was so much fun that Chinatown is doing it again this Sunday. A matinee show in conjunction with CicLAvia will bring four standout L.A. bands to an outdoor stage near Chinatown’s Central Plaza (specifically, adjacent to the Grand Star Jazz Club). There will be a craft beer […]
Few bands carry the Sarah Records torch so proudly as Letting Up Despite Great Faults, the L.A.-bred and now-Austin-based quartet that originally was the bedroom project of Mike Lee. Letting Up’s second album “Untogether” (out next Tuesday) rolls in like a spring breeze, sighing vocals over ’80s-style synths and jangling, fuzzed-out guitars. It’s an aesthetic […]
As part of the dreamier-than-thou L.A. outfit Black Flamingo, Kimi Recor conjured up angels and demons in hazy and sometimes-crazy pop songs laden with hooks and reverb. With Black Flamingo retooling due to some lineup changes (we might hear more from them by November), Recor embarked on a solo venture. And it turns out she […]
LexiconDon tackles the melodrama that is life in L.A. on their new single “City Lies.” A skeletal pop track backed by a blunt, industrial drum machine, the new song – the third new track since June from the synth-pop team of Alex Koons and Fabian Ordorica and guitarist Sam Gabbard – is a guitar-driven departure […]
Inc. – the L.A. duo formerly known as Teen Inc. whose minimalist, exceedingly precious take on funk ’n’ soul has bewilderingly captured the fancy of the prestigious label 4AD – will release its debut album early next year. Brothers Andrew and Daniel Aged unveiled an EP in 2011, and their new single “The Place” seems […]
It’s no insult to call long-running L.A. quartet the World Record a dyed-in-the-wool power-pop band. That’s because the wool is such strong cloth – it’s the same fabric from which Big Star, the dB’s and the Records (and artists like the Posies, Fountains of Wayne, Nada Surf and Brendan Benson who followed) were cut. And […]
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 […]
Funny thing happened to Marion Belle en route to making a new Bowery Beasts album. “Basically the [new] songs and the sounds were telling a certain story,” he says, “and I realized the need to explore them in a separate world of their own.” And Fatal Jamz were born. Belle told Vice his new music […]
The L.A. Buzz Bands Show is not going quietly into autumn. As bountiful as 2012 has proven musically, our mailbox is still bulging with new releases and new bands. And today’s program on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) is sprinkled with fresh flavors for you to taste-test. I’ll premiere a song from the forthcoming […]
Simmering, sultry, steamy … the latest single from Well Hung Heart is all those things, not to mention a textbook example of how to make an old-fashioned blues rocker that doesn’t feel like the same ol’ same ol’. A collaboration between U.K. guitarist/producer Robin Davey and singer Greta Valenti (with Phil Wilson playing the drums), […]
