So the Barr Brothers’ story goes that guitarist Brad Barr heard a neighbor, Sarah Page, practicing her harp, learned the melody, knocked on her door and played it for her. Which makes for a nice warm-and-fuzzy – not unlike the Montreal quartet’s self-titled debut album (out next week on Secret City Records). It’s bluesy, tool-shed […]
Touts for your Tuesday: ‣ Bon Iver and Other Lives do a second night in L.A., this show at the Gibson Amphitheatre. ‣ Low visits the El Rey Theatre behind its April release “C’mon,” with New Zealand’s Bachelorette opening. ‣ Correatown celebrates today’s release of its new album “Pleiades” with a show at the Bootleg […]
This qualifies as a Monster Monday: ‣ Bon Iver plays the first of two L.A. dates, tonight at the Shrine, and equally good, for our money, are tourmates Other Lives, whose album “Tamer Animals” will end up near the top of BBLA’s 2011 lists. ‣ James Blake and Teengirl Fantasy do a second night at […]
Your Sunday touts: ‣ Folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling (who earned a Mercury Prize nomination for each of her two previous albums) plays the first of her two sold-out L.A. shows at Masonic Lodge. Her haunting melodies from her third album, “A Creature I Don’t Know,” will nicely complement mystique of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery grounds. […]
Saturday’s spread: ‣ The Roots do a Pre-Emmy Jam at the sold-out House of Blues. ‣ Lobsterfest continues at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro with a full day of music, including the Damselles & the TC 4 (1 p.m.), Judson McKinney (2), Deap Vally (3), Light FM (4), Eastern Conference Champions (5), […]
It’s a fantabulous Friday: ‣ Back in April, Eastern Conference Champions (that Joshua Ostrander, pictured) released one of our favorite albums of the year, “Speak-Ahh.” The trio warms up for a trip overseas with a date at the Satellite, supported by Duniven and Warships. ‣ Surfer Blood, with a new EP “Tarot Classic” on the […]
Thursday things, and there are plenty: ‣ Robbers on High Street – the New Yorkers’ new album “Hey There Golden Hair” will simply hit you in your pop place – headline the Roxy, with L.A.’s the Allah-Las and the Street & Babe Shadow opening. (Your friendly neighborhood Buzz Bands LA blogger will be DJing the […]
Buzz Bands LA is turning 3 years old, and we’re triangulating the celebration. We are privileged to announce that Everest, the Los Angeles quintet who are readying their third album of rich, distinctly American rock ’n’ roll, will head up a trio of rockers playing Buzz Bands LA’s Three-Year Anniversary on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at […]
First, if you were an album getting played tonight, which one would you be? ‣ In advance of the annual Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven cookout in Pioneertown this weekend, David Lowery brings both of his bands to the Satellite with a special agenda: Cracker will be performing its 1993 album “Kerosene Hat,” and Camper Van Beethoven […]
Cliff Magreta has been waiting for the clock to strike 12 for several years now –he began writing tunes as Minutes til Midnight around 2006 after the Shore, for whom he played bass, saw their record deal wash ashore. Since then, his exploits have included songwriting with other artists (he was a co-writer on Paul […]
