[Notes from here, there and everywhere …] ‣ Stand up: Fitz & the Tantrums will be part of the Stand Up 2 Cancer benefit tonight – you can catch their performance online right here, after the network television of the telethon is over. And you can watch it above. ‣ Bargain: Dungen with the Entrance […]
Pete Yorn is about to score himself some indie cred, and maybe some new fans. His newest release (out Sept. 28 on Vagrant) was produced by none other than Frank Black. Yes, that Frank Black. Recorded in less than a week at Black’s home in Salem, Ore. (with a band hand-selected by Black), the songs […]
The Henry Clay People, resident wiseguys, nice guys and now fixtures on the Silver Lake scene, are about to embark on a two-month tour, starting this weekend with the Drive-By Truckers. In the way of a parting gift, the band is giving away a download of “Switch Kids,” a live favorite that didn’t appear on […]
Lucas Guerin grew up in the Los Angeles area as the son of French parents, studied theater and filmmaking and although reared in a musical household didn’t pick up an instrument until he was 20. And when he closes his eyes, he hears … Kool & the Gang, Sly & the Family Stone, Prince? “I’m […]
Part jingle-jangle, part old-fashioned Southern rock, Futurebirds have been collecting praise all over the place for their debut, “Hampton’s Lullaby” (out now on Autumn Tone). Full of pedal-steel swerves and comforting harmonies, the album delivers dreamy melodies that come closer with every listen. Four of the six members are multi-instrumentalists as well as vocalists within […]
If the crackling, Pavement-informed indie rock on LA Font’s forthcoming album “The American Leagues” feels like a breath of fresh air compared to all the noisy navel-gazing on the scene right now, it’s because songwriter Danny Bobbe probably still feels like an outsider. Bobbe moved from Montana to L.A. just two years ago, and his […]
SoCal has fond memories of Trespassers William, the Orange County-bred dreampop outfit who fled to the Pacific Northwest around the time 2004’s “Different Stars” was worming its way into our ears. Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams have released precious little TW music since 2006 (only two EPs), but Williams has been involved in other projects […]
Interpol sounded less like a band geeked out about the release of its fourth album and more like a band in the throes of a mid-career crisis on Monday night. At a semi-private show for KCRW-FM at Berkeley Street Studio, the New Yorkers performed two four-song sets that bookended an interview conducted by the radio […]
Since Buzz Bands hasn’t yet expanded to the Land of Cheeseheads, I’m not terribly conversant in a lot of the indie music emanating from the state of Wisconsin. But what the compilation album “Wisco: A Tribute to Wilco’s Summerteeth” lacks in familiar names it makes up for in musicianship and good intentions. The tribute (not […]
Eastern Conference Champions bandmates Joshua Ostrander and Greg Lyons go back a long way. Ostrander was an admiring kid in the days of long-ago Philadelphia-area bands Trip 66 and Dandelion, played in local heroes Ty Cobb and eventually teamed up with the left-handed drummer in Laguardia, who released one major-label album, in 2003. Five roller-coaster […]
