Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Deerhunter, the Breeders, Charles Bradley, Mikal Cronin ||| Photos by Carl Pocket After the jump, more photos and capsule reviews:
Eastern Conference Champions closed out the Buzz Bands LA / White Iris Records stage at Echo Park Rising on Sunday night with a signature blast of guitar-driven ecstasy. But that we expected. What surprised was the soulful, rather show-stealing turn from Rachel Fannan and her band Only You. It was but one reason the Taix […]
If there was any hangover from Saturday’s massive first day of Echo Park Rising, it didn’t show on Sunday. The Lonely Wild, Body Parts, James Supercave and Hot As Sun gave exhilarating outdoor stage performances; Holy Folk played one of several memorable sets at the Echo; and not unlike the South by Southwest music festival, […]
Saturday evening might have offered concert overload for music fans, but that didn’t keep the crowds away from 2013’s final Chinatown Summer Nights. An eclectic lineup of seven bands held forth the LA Weekly Live Music Stage, capped by the dance-friendly electro-pop of Hot As Sun and the rhythmically sophisticated indie-rock of Incan Abraham. The […]
The three-day Bay Area bash known as Outside Lands went off last weekend with chilly temperatures and heart-warming performances, particularly Paul McCartney’s big, fireworks-festooned finale. Along the way, there was a mix of legends, rising indie bands and guest surprises, as when Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead joined the National onstage. Oh, and Nine […]
By Gabriel Jones Matt Berninger has an impressively long microphone cord, as the audience learned at the National’s show Saturday night at the Greek Theatre. The band’s frontman has made a decent living for some years now straddling the fault line between ego and id. In concert, he’s the model of elegance and civility, dressed […]
If the Troubadour weren’t so crowded on Friday night, it’d have been the perfect place for a makeout party. On second thought, maybe it was, if you didn’t mind public displays of affection. The lights were low and mostly blue … the mood was bedroom-intimate … and L.A. quartet Superhumanoids certainly provided an appropriate soundtrack. […]
It wasn’t hard to imagine exactly how the sold-out Palma Violets show at the Echoplex on Tuesday night was going to go down. The U.K. punk-rock quartet, coming straight off a successful weekend at Lollapalooza, chart-topping singles abroad and acclaim for their debut album “180,” gave the expectant audience exactly what they had waited for […]
Far from trying to curate anything, or even connecting the present to the neighborhood’s rock ’n’ roll legacy, the Sunset Strip Music Festival last Saturday merely offered something for everybody. Fans responded with their pocketbooks and feet: The festival appeared more crowded that 2012’s Motley Crue-headlined party, although promoters put the attendance at the same […]
[Note: Because of Buzz Bands LA’s tech woes last week, we’re a bit tardy in posting our coverage of last weekend’s events. So now we play catch-up:] The decade-plus exploits of the Icarus Line are the stuff of legends: Bad-boy antics, disintegrating relationships, self-immolating habits, lineup changes, record-industry misadventures, utter and public contempt for anything […]
