Incoming: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bjork, the 88, Radar Bros., Parson Red Heads, Snowden, Caifanes, Tijuana No, Beth Orton, Fall Out Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Alkaline Trio, Emily Wells, Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Barry Manilow, the Dandy Warhols, CSS, Cold Cave, Ozma, Nightmare & the Cat, Robert DeLong, Robert Earl Keen, the Bats, Peter […]
[Inadvertently omitted from our show list earlier today:] The Boxer Rebellion, whose Friday night show in Hollywood was postponed because of the shootings in Santa Monica, will make up the concert at Avalon Hollywood tonight. The band had made an appearance early Friday at KCRW, whose studios are located on the campus of Santa Monica […]
Oh, the brooding. The xx won a Mercury Prize for their self-titled debut in 2010, and they continue to go strong with melancholic atmospherics on their the sophomore record “Coexist” (out now via Young Turks). Young Replicant, a/k/a Alex Takacs, also returns as director for clip accompanying the xx’s track “Fiction” to further illustrate Oliver Sim […]
Night Riots, though unsigned and independent, are not exactly new; as PK, the hard-working quintet has been and in out of its San Luis Obispo County hometown of Templeton spreading the gospel of synth-charged arena rock for several years, fashioning a sound that suggest a glove compartment full of Killers and Cure CDs. But last […]
So much Friday fun: ‣ Jubilee Music & Arts Festival, the 2-day with street festival between Santa Fe Ave. and 6th St. in downtown L.A., kicks off today with acts such as the Black Lips, Trash Talk, Bleached, Free Energy, Kitten and many more.  Check out the complete set times here. ‣ Capital Cities, Gold Fields and DWNTWN all return […]
Despite what Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, says of “Funtimes in Babylon” – “Music videos don’t need blurbs.  It’s like putting a brief summary before a Garfield comic strip,” he asserts in the press blast – we’re going to say something anyway. The VHS-styled clip, co-directed with Grant James (who also helmed “This Is […]
Cold War Kids‘ clip for their latest single “Loner Phase” may look like a lyric video on the surface, but the man scribbling behind the screen is actually Matt Maust, who had quite the graphic design portfolio even before he took up bass for the L.A. quartet. If the color combinations and penmanship look familiar, […]
You’ve been on those long drives where it feels as if the car is actually being propelled by the stereo and not an internal combustion engine, right? So it is with the seen-better-days Honda in director Steve Hanft’s video for the Radar Brothers’ “If We Were Banished.” Inspired or inhabited by the song, the […]
[Buzz Bands LA today welcomes a new contributing writer, Dan Frazier, whom many in L.A. might know as the man behind Free Bike Valet.] Venice Beach’s Mind the Gap have always been in a limbo between pop rock and electro funk, but their upcoming EP “Youth” doesn’t yield its dance-floor intentions with the singles “Find […]
Tuesday things: ‣ Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers continue their 6-night stint over at the Fonda Theatre. ‣ London’s alternative dance/band Crystal Fighters stop by the El Rey Theatre in support of their album “Cave Rave,” and Australia’s electro-pop outfit Alpine open. That’s Alpine’s video for “Gasoline” above. ‣ Kiwi indie popper Willy Moon plays at the […]
