It’s no big shock running into a Los Angeles musician at the Austin airport after South by Southwest closes down its week of festivities. It was a surprise on Monday, however, to see one hard at work. There, seated on the floor minding his laptop, was So Many Wizards frontman Nima Kazerouni, and he wasn’t […]
South by Southwest 2012 offered an orgiastic selection of music, too bounteous for any one person to digest. Buzz Bands LA contributing photographer Scott Dudelson made the rounds all week and hit some of the festival’s buzziest artists – from everyone’s darlings, Alabama Shakes (top photo) to swoon-worthy songstresses (Fiona Apple and Norah Jones) to […]
One good idea spawned another Saturday evening at South by Southwest. Last spring’s Railroad Revival Tour – the train journey that carried Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show from Oakland to New Orleans and stopped for six shows along the way – was documented by director Emmett […]
@KRBronson on Thursday at SXSW (also see: Jesus and Mary Chain review): Arms makes indie-rock for people who like indie-rock, with sharp guitar and bass lines, sharper lyrics and arresting shifts in tempo and mood that toggle adeptly between nice and gnarly. Mastermind Todd Goldstein once played in Harlem Shakes, who had their 15 minutes […]
BUZZBANDS.LA, brings nine of the southern California’s best emerging bands to Austin today for “DEAR AUSTIN: LOVE, L.A.” – a kickoff party concurrent with the first day of the 2012 SXSW Music Festival. The free showcase runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. 6th Street, Austin. No RSVP is necessary. […]
So what’s your flavor, South by Southwest? Because these southern California bands are doing battle to get their music on your plates. On Friday we posted a 44-song mixtape featuring SoCal bands performing at SXSW, and frankly that wasn’t enough. Buzz Bands LA, of course, has nine bands who tickle our fancy playing our “Dear […]
[Check out these new tunes from SXSW-bound L.A. artists we haven’t heard from in a while …] White Arrows, “Fireworks of the Sea” – It’s been a while since we’ve heard something new from Mickey Church and the gang, and for good reason. Following the success of their self-titled EP and the remix EP which […]
Nine SoCal bands are playing Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin: Love, L.A.” day party next Wednesday on the first day of the South by Southwest Music Festival. It seems like 999 SoCal bands are actually headed to Austin. When we started culling music from those artists, our uploader begged for for mercy. So we called […]
In a manner, Rocco DeLuca has come full circle. The L.A. native honed his chops at a long-running residency in Orange County from 2003 to ’05 and emerged as a contender with “I Trust You to Kill Me,” the first of two albums his band Rocco DeLuca and the Burden released on the independent label […]
Facts on File sound like a project David Byrne might’ve started in his garage in 1976, not such a bad thing for fans of angst-y post-punk or avant-garde pop. The trio of singer-bassist Joseph White, drummer Molly Durkin and guitarist Jason Spencer relocated to L.A. from San Francisco in 2009, and in late April they […]
