Jonathan Wilson’s show at the Troubadour – originally set for Thursday but postponed because of a “medical emergency in the band” – has been rescheduled for Friday, Nov. 15. A post on the artist’s website today said all original tickets will be honored for the new show. It’s Wilson’s first L.A. date since the October […]
Beck’s “Song Reader” – the 2012 album that the 43-year-old songwriter released only as sheet music – will come to life on Nov. 24 at Disney Hall at a special concert including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a host of special guests. Having performed sold-out “Song Reader” shows in London and San Francisco, Beck will be […]
It’s been a minute, Warpaint. Never ones to work quickly, the L.A. quartet of singer-guitarists Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman, bassist-singer Jenny Lee Lindberg and drummer Stella Mozgawa were around several years before their first EP (2008) and finally released their widely praised full-length “The Fool” three years ago this month. Today Warpaint announced that […]
Lou Reed, the pioneering singer, songwriter and photographer and leader of the seminal New York City band the Velvet Underground, died today at age 71, RollingStone.com is reporting. Photo of Lou Reed with Gorillaz at Gibson Amphitheatre, three years ago tonight (Oct. 27, 2010), by Carl Pocket
By now you might know the backstory of Run River North, the folk-pop sextet formed in the Valley and first known as Monsters Calling Home. The members’ common bond was that they were all progeny of families who had moved from Asia to southern California and attended the same church. And they sang some pretty […]
Indie-rock quartet LA Font will headline Chinatown’s Local Music Stage at a matinee show on Sunday, Oct. 6, in conjunction with CicLAvia’s Heart of LA event. Chinatown will be one of five hubs that day for CicLAvia – quarterly events that temporarily rids major thoroughfares of cars in favor of bicyclists, skaters and pedestrians. Chinatown […]
Because it’s a party and we hate it when parties end early: Beat Club has been added to the lineup for tonight’s Buzz Bands LA 5-Year Anniversary show at the Satellite. Beat Club, the L.A. trio of Jeff Kite, Jon Pancoast and Anthony Polcino, earlier this year released the three-song maxi-single “Something Better” via PCM […]
It’s becoming a familiar storyline. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl meet synth. Indie-pop duo is formed. Bouncy songs ensue. Because public’s appetite for bouncy indie-pop songs is insatiable, blogs go crazy. Duo hailed as creators of “the song of the summer.” Long career of Instagrams of donuts with rainbow-colored sprinkles, pink hats and three-scoop […]
We consider ourselves indie-pop devotees at Buzz Bands LA, but on most matters involving blissful, jangling guitars we defer to Marion Hodges, the KCRW DJ, show promoter, dance-night host, record-spinner and fellow Pastels fans whom we met once upon a time over a Tullycraft song at Pehrspace. Hodges, who’s been known to keep us sane […]
Set times have been announced for next month’s Culture Collide festival, Filter’s three-day incursion into Echo Park that brings more than 50 bands from all over the globe in for showcases Oct. 10-12. Liars and King Khan & the Shrines will close out the music on the outdoor stage at Taix on Saturday evening; it’s […]
