It’s Sunset Junction weekend, and this year’s street offers a very diverse music lineup and a strong L.A. bands presence in exchange for your $20-per-day ticket price. Since I last posted on the Junction, Everest and Dawes have been added to the lineup, and some set times have been tweaked. Oh, and to prepare for […]
Top 4 ways to keep that summertime adrenaline pumping: ‣ Jets Overhead have jetted in from Canada – that’s their new video for “I Should Be Born,” above – and since I’ve advocated for them before, I’ll do it again. They play the Roxy on a KROQ Locals Only bill (hmm, KROQ now reaches all […]
Indie mockumentary “The Scenesters” seems to have all the makings of a Buzz Bands favorite – lots of music by familiar people (the Airborne Toxic Event, the Cribs, Le Switch, the Franks are among those populating the soundtrack), plenty of laughs, a little mystery and some dead hipsters. Yes, it’s only a ceremonial burning of […]
There’s something sexy about Wisconsin garage rockers Jaill. “That’s How We Burn,” their debut for Sub Pop, falls somewhere between ’80s pop-punk and stoner dance-rock territory, blending dishy hooks, back-up harmonies and a whole lot of references to weed. Lead track “The Stroller” plays like the perfect soundtrack to start Saturday night, in a fast […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire …] Top 3 reasons to go out and play tonight: ‣ Acoustic guitar shredders Rodrigo y Gabriela (that’s their video for “Hanuman,” above) play the Greek Theatre, joined by Xavier Rudd. ‣ Childish Gambino raps at the Bootleg Theater. That’s the hip-hop alter-ego of […]
Radars to the Sky remain one of those best-bands-you’ve-never-heard phenomena that populate the L.A. landscape – people with days jobs and families and lives who somehow find the juice to write and record original material, instead of maybe playing in that AC/DC cover band for beers on the weekend. It’s slow going sometimes (the first […]
Top 6 reasons to stop watching Charlize Theron in this video and see a show tonight: ‣ The Killers’ Brandon Flowers unveils songs from his solo album “Flamingo” (due Sept. 14) at a sold-out show at the Troubadour. It quite possibly could be as action-packed as Nash Edgerton’s video for “Crossfire,” above. ‣ Darker My […]
The first question, as we convene for what has become a biannual lunch at Oinkster in Eagle Rock, is: “When did one of my favorite shoegaze bands wake up and decide they wanted to sound like the Byrds?” Rob Barbato and Tim Presley of Darker My Love laugh. “We always did …” Barbato says. “… […]
Joshua Fisher, the guy behind the marketing/consulting company Heart Music Group, is one fellow who was championing Baths’ Will Wiesenfeld when the electro wunderkind was still making music under the name Post-Foetus. Now Baths has lent a previously unreleased track to a (free) six-track EP that Heart is releasing digitally. Besides Baths, the collection features […]
[If you root through the archives, you find that Aug. 16 is a pretty momentous day in music history. Robert Johnson (1938) and Elvis Presley (1977) died on this day. Madonna (1958) and LL Cool J (1968) were born. Any headlines so far today?] Top 3 reasons to open your ears (and possibly wallet) tonight: […]
