Big stuff, small stuff, and Buzz Bands LA’s stuff: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night goes off at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park with a eclectic quartet of acts – the Quick Hellos, 7Horse, Frankel and Jack Burnside. Get all the details here. ‣ Jay-Z & Kanye West do another installment of the […]
Some people are not morning people, and it’s highly doubtful rebellious punk rockers FIDLAR are either. However, their video for “Wake Bake Skate” from their “DIYDUI” EP does support the theory where those who are slow to awaken before noon do rise with enough energy to take the day on head first. Sure, productivity may […]
There’s free, and not free, on this soggy Monday: ‣ Not free: The second night of the “Watch The Throne” spectacle, with Jay-Z & Kanye West, at Staples Center. ‣ Also: Dinosaur Jr. performs its album “Bug” and chats with Henry Rollins in a big night at O.C.’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa […]
Sunday’s merriment: ‣ Night 2 of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas boasts a lineup that includes Jane’s Addiction, the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Death Cab for Cutie and Noel Gallagher, along with the likes of Foster the People and Grouplove. The evening will be webcast right here. (P.S.: There’s an after-party at Hemingway’s where a […]
Florence Welch refuses to turn the melodrama down, and if you don’t believe that statement, just watch Florence + the Machine‘s latest music video for “No Light, No Light.” The closest thing to Madonna’s controversial “Like a Prayer” clip for the new millennium (of course, excluding all Lady Gaga-related items), religious and racial content were […]
There’s so many things that can happen when your computer isn’t the only shining light in your room. In the new music video for So Many Wizards‘ “Inner City,” we get a glimpse of the life of a guy who decides to close his laptop and take a walk outside in the real world. Whether […]
The few new songs L.A. heard from We Barbarians when they swung through town in September were impressive, but the indie-rock trio, which moved from Long Beach to NYC earlier this year, aren’t done promoting 2011’s “Headspace” EP yet. In Arms Race’s cool video for the anthemic “Chambray,” We Barbs take a licking from the […]
Foster the People have sold 540,361 copies, and counting, of their debut album “Torches.” And they still stole my car to make this video.
Thursday things: ‣ Jonathan Wilson [see our interview with him Wednesday] plays the Troubadour behind his 2011 release “Gentle Spirit.” ‣ The Kooks are back for a second night at the Music Box. ‣ Buzzing NYC quintet Caveman make their first visit to L.A. behind their first release “CoCo Beware.” the five-piece plays the Echo, […]
The new music video from Baltimore trio Tennis may give you the creeps as you see one of the sisters dragging a plastic bag that seems to be leaking blood, but it’s almost refreshing, considering the band’s obsession with sailing in the past. Although their seven-month expedition along the Atlantic coast yielded undeniably catchy pop […]
