Here’s Bradford Cox as Atlas Sound doing his thing Jan. 8 at the Natural History Museum – all 75 minutes of it. Cox was the first headliner of 2010 in the First Fridays series, which continues this week with music from Yeasayer and Warpaint and discussions with Caltech professor Dr. Nathan S. Lewis titled “Where […]
Joel Graves, guitarist for the Los Angeles quintet Everest, took one look at the cluster of photographers astride the red carpet at Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday night and rolled his eyes a little bit. “What we doing here?” he laughed before he and bandmates Russell Pollard, Eli Thomson, J. Soda and Davey Latter […]
Old friends took a look at Neil Young’s life on Friday night, and by the time the dinner concert honoring him as the MusiCares 2010 Person of the Year was over, there wasn’t merely a lot of love for the 64-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, but a lot of cash raised for the […]
The power of the Cold War Kids’ music has always been its ability to wrap the frailties of the ill-starred characters in their three-minute novellas into a Tennessee Williams-like ball of emotion. The Long Beach quartet’s sweat-stained storytelling has raised the room temperature in small clubs and smoky bars, but putting that spare, wiry blues-punk […]
For somebody who wields his wit like a flamethrower and his couplets like hand grenades, Eddie Argos sure was nervous on Friday night at the Echo. The droll narrator of the U.K. quintet Art Brut was performing on the QT, billed as “Hot Sauce Mentor.” He was, in fact, debuting the music of his new […]
Once you got past the little joke about the Deerhunter guy playing in the Hall of North American Mammals, Bradford Cox’s set on Friday night at the Natural History Museum in L.A. wasn’t terribly extraordinary. Performing in his solo permutation as Atlas Sound, Cox floated through a set of dreamy material from his sophomore album […]
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who made it to Spaceland on Sunday night for Buzz Bands LA’s Holidaze, which featured great sets from Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Death Kit, Spirit Animal and Wet & Reckless. Special tip of the cap to Spirit Animal’s Steve Cooper for rocking it as master of ceremonies, and to those […]
By Meriah Doty Spaceland housed a respectable crowd on a chilly Tuesday night for Long Beach band Parade of Lights. It was the release party for their debut EP, and the quartet came prepared with shirts, CDs and even their own fancy set of stage lights. To add to their bright vision, they opened with […]
More than the music — which was nothing short of spectacular — Tuesday night’s sold-out Winston Calling benefit concert at the Echoplex in Los Angeles was about random acts of kindness. How else to explain all the heavy hitters taking the lead of Pixies frontman Frank Black (a.k.a. Black Francis) and rallying to the aid […]
I’ve said it before – there’s no propriety in reviewing your own show. But to my ears, Decembering With Buzz Bands LA on Wednesday night at the Echo was a big hit, from the soaring, uplifting melodies of Square on Square, to the gritty, Dylan-flavored rock of KAV, to the layered roar of the rejuvenated […]
