File under Personal Memorandums: City Museum were never much of a threat to be next-big-things – except at co-founder Jeff Miller’s annual backyard party – but like a lot of Los Angeles bands piloted by people from all walks of life, they embraced their music with passion, humility and humor. With singer-guitarist Kevin Flinn moving […]
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File under: Appetite for touring. L.A. electro-funk band Spirit Animal (whom some of you might remember from the Buzz Bands LA holiday party in December) arrived a novel way to try to finance this summer’s tour behind their debut album “The Cost of Living.” Frontman Steve Cooper will make dinner for you. Provided, of course, […]
Low-keying it this weekend? With big sold-out shows in abundance, it might be the way to go. Here are a handful of below-the-radar options: Benefits: Red Cortez, the VLA and the Bixby Knolls [pictured] – and art from musician types like Matt Maust (Cold War Kids), Joel Graves (Everest) and Nathan Warkentin (We Barbarians) – […]
[Items for your calendar …] And now for something a little bit different: An event called End Times Opry goes off Friday night at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock, and while the press release promises something “off-centered and rowdy,” it will be, at the very least, diverse. It’s a mélange of music, […]
[A bit of everything here: benefit shows, bands with new names and World Cup soccer:] The Airborne Toxic Event returns to the site of their very first show, the Echo, on May 25 for a charity gig for the Neda Project – an Amnesty International-related effort named for Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian woman who was […]
Just when you thought Dangerbird Records was going to build an empire by loading up on mid-career indie bands (recent signings: Hot Hot Heat, Minus the Bear and ex-Promise Ring guys Maritime), the L.A.-based label has gone out an inked local soul revivalists Fitz & the Tantrums, the Times reports. Nifty timing too – Fitz […]
Join me on Indie1031.com at 11 this morning for a couple of hours of Buzz Bands LA music. It’ll be an all-SoCal show this week as I geek out over my overflowing mailbox, going to SXSW next week, recent shows and the fact that spring training has begun. If I can somehow tie baseball to […]
[Catching up on some recent developments …] File this under interesting twists: the next album by the Bird and the Bee will be “Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates” (March 23 on Blue Note Records). No irony from the mouths of Greg Kurstin and Inara George here, says […]
From Australian comedy outfit Axis of Awesome, here’s the “4 Chords” medley that I only recently found. I think you’ll find some favorites here … (Thanks to @Dangerbird for tweeting.)
