Darren Weiss is no longer one of the Girls – the Encino-reared drummer-songwriter recently departed the celebrated San Francisco indie-rock band to concentrate on his own PAPA, music he has been incubating since his college days in New York City. PAPA’s debut EP “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find” (released in October) was recorded […]
What would happen if Rilo Kiley were just starting out amid today’s garage-rock surge? Well, they would sound a lot like Bermuda Dunes-based band You Me & Us. They may call their genre of music “dog pop,” and they may not have a single song over 2 minutes 30 seconds on their “Paperweights” EP, but […]
Welcome to Black Flamingo’s disquieting video for “Haunted House,” a piece of cinematography that the band owes all to … well, to Black Flamingo. In the true DIY spirit, the shadowy Los Angeles dream-pop sextet – Kimi Recor, Christopher Vick, Alexander Posell, Poul Johansen, Amberlie Bankoff and Mareesa Stertz (not to mention Chuck Taylor as the […]
Jasmine Ash is mostly known for being the frontwoman and main songwriter for L.A. indie pop band Oh Darling. She recently stepped out on her own for a solo debut titled “Beneath The Noise,” and here her pop sensibility shines the brightest yet. Although Ash’s feather-light high register always seems to trickle a sweet layer […]
L.A. songstress Sara Radle, who recently celebrated the release of her fifth solo album, “Same Sun Shines,” will head up the lineup for the next Buzz Bands LA monthly songwriter night, on March 6 at Lot 1 Cafe. She’ll be joined by Andrew Carroll & Jessi Williams of the Lonely Wild, who will be doing […]
“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel,” Jimi Hendrix said once of That Which Should Not Be Undertaken Lightly. And don’t the guys in the Record Company know it. The new Los Angeles trio came together about a year and a half ago when singer-songwriter Chris Vos moved to L.A. from Milwaukee and […]
Three bands, one good cause: Wires in the Walls, Telstar and Little Red Lung will play a benefit show for PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Mint. The evening is presented by Rock Is a Girl’s Best Friend, along with Buzz Bands LA (who will select tunes before and between […]
“You can’t spell ‘Shangri-La’ without L.A.,” says zany synth-pop band YACHT on their blog, and their new music video for the title track of their record “Shangri-La” is a purely an ode to the City of Angels. Core members Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans then continue to go deep in to their philosophy that […]
Meg Myers, “After You” – Our favorite ’90s songstress who wasn’t around the in ’90s? Maybe. There’s a measured intensity in the Myers’ sharp pop that speaks, perhaps, to an ongoing negotiation between head and heart. It’s fun to monitor the proceedings. Myers has no live band yet, but an EP is on the way. […]
Joachim Cooder has deep roots in L.A. music – he’s the son of guitar legend Ry Cooder, for one, and Joachim has made his own mark starting in 2006 with Hello Stranger (fronted by his now-wife Juliette Commagere) and then as a drummer and session player for a host of A-listers. His new “solo” project […]
