[Saturday notebook … updated] ‣ Orange County-bred folk-rock quintet Mississippi Man [pictured], who put out their debut album “A-OK” this summer, is calling it quits. The band’s final show will be Sunday at the Bootleg Theater. Said David Knight via e-mail: “We felt like we went as far as we could with MM.” ‣ Grouplove, […]
While we’re mighty curious to hear how Fol Chen’s music went over on the band’s recent trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, the L.A. art-pop collective today sprung a new video on us. The animated clip for “C/U” is the work of L.A.-based artist and director Nancy Jean Tucker, who did the band’s “No Wedding Cake” […]
I’m severely in arrears in posting about this, but I’d like to thank everybody who turned out for last Saturday’s “A Night With Buzz Bands LA” at Spaceland. In only their second live show, headliner White Sea, the solo project of M83 singer-keyboardist Morgan Kibby, turned in a sparkling set of disco-tinged dreampop – imagine […]
Mika, Phoenix, Yeasayer, Passion Pit, Hot Chip and the feuding main-stage headliners Pavement and Smashing Pumpkins are some of the bands playing the rest of today at the Planeta Terra Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil – being webcast today live (and in good quality, from the Of Montreal stream I’m getting right now). Click here […]
The White Buffalo is the apt alter-ego of Jake Smith, a southern California native with a mammoth presence, and an even bigger voice. Smith has toured with Ziggy Marley and performed hundreds of self-penned songs worldwide, despite having put out only one self-recorded EP before this month’s release of “Prepare for Black & Blue” (Ruff […]
Spaceland Productions, the concert promoters who have booked music at the Silver Lake club known as Spaceland for a decade and a half, are parting ways with the venue’s owner. By early next year, the storied room at 1717 Silver Lake Blvd. – which has hosted the Los Angeles debuts of bands such as Arcade […]
If you dress to impress at the Henry Clay People’s second annual Rock and Roll Circus tonight, you score a sampler CD with songs from some of the participating bands. It’s a nifty mix, so in the interests of giving you a sample of the sampler, I’ve appropriated 10 of the tracks for The Buzzsicle, […]
Took a minute, but there on the dusty shelves in the Buzz Bands archives is a copy of the Starvations’ 2003 “Get Well Soon,” whose dark bar-band swagger sounds pretty good to this day. The Starvations died of hunger back in ’05, but singer-guitarist Gabriel Hart, thankfully, lives on, even if his music seems to […]
The Plastic Ono Band’s two-night stand over the weekend at the Orpheum Theatre was a star-studded spectacle that slithered uneasily between concert, tribute and variety show. People went gaga over guest turns by Lady Gaga (on Saturday) and Iggy Pop (on Friday), but for my money the performance with the most artistic merit was the […]
The latest album from Stockholm’s Moneybrother, “Real Control,” is a powerful amalgamation of soul, punk and pop, a carnival of sound producing an extraordinarily danceable pop-rock record. Frontman Anders Wendin packs a lot of sound into one song as synths, piano, strings and frat-boy-shouting chorus lines are layered into a sonic stratosphere. More complex than the […]
