Buzz Bands LA’s annual “Dear Austin, Love L.A.” showcase and day party goes off from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today at Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. 6th Street in Austin. If you’re in Texas for South by Southwest, stop by – it’s free, no RSVP necessary. After the jump, the rundown on who’s playing […]
Los Angeles will have a massive presence at the 2013 South by Southwest Music Festival, which officially kicks off today in Austin. More than 200 southern California-based acts will play the event, which in recent years has grown from a symposium-and-showcase shindig to a mass-marketed monster that has more in common with spring break than […]
Hey Austin, L.A. is coming for you again this year. “Dear Austin, Love L.A,” the annual party thrown by Buzz Bands LA, returns to Opal Divine’s Freehouse on Wednesday, March 13, for a day of music from nine emerging bands. The showcase runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is free and all-ages (no […]
If you spent any part of last week in Austin for SXSW, it’s quite possible you’ve not yet recovered. If you spent much time at Mess With Texas – the three-day party co-sponsored by FYF Fest – we’re pretty sure you haven’t. The parties at the 1100 Warehouse featured explosive sets from Girls, Titus Andronicus, […]
South by Southwest 2012 offered an orgiastic selection of music, too bounteous for any one person to digest. Buzz Bands LA contributing photographer Scott Dudelson made the rounds all week and hit some of the festival’s buzziest artists – from everyone’s darlings, Alabama Shakes (top photo) to swoon-worthy songstresses (Fiona Apple and Norah Jones) to […]
@Seraphina_L on Saturday at SXSW: Oversized T-shirt and baggy pants made Zachary Cole Smith and his bandmates in Dive an odd watch, but what they offered was surprisingly and fervidly beyond their years. No-nonsense guitar-driven rock with head-banging, hair-whipping ferocity made us wonder how these kids (who look no older than 12) came from as […]
One good idea spawned another Saturday evening at South by Southwest. Last spring’s Railroad Revival Tour – the train journey that carried Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show from Oakland to New Orleans and stopped for six shows along the way – was documented by director Emmett […]
@KRBronson on Saturday’s final fling at SXSW: “How You Like Me Now?” – the title of the Heavy’s ubiquitous 2009 single – seemed like a relevant question Saturday at SXSW. The improbable emergence of the funk- and fire-breathing sextet from the hinterlands of England is a true underdog story: They nailed the Curtis Mayfield-meets-indie-rock formula […]
@Seraphina_L on Friday at SXSW: If there’s one artist who will make aching feet, humidity and a 12-block hike more than worth it, it’s Austin’s very own Gary Clark Jr. The emcee at Waterloo Records’ outdoor stage mentioned having followed Clark since he was 15 years old, and considering Clark’s deafening buzz at SXSW this […]
The new material from Best Coast – whose sophomore album “The Only Place” arrives May 15 – seems soaked in “woe-is-me” and “I-don’t-know,” but there was no lack of certitude Friday at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, where the L.A. quartet was second-billed at the annual SPIN party during South by Southwest.
