Sometimes I feel like this: It’s your world, kids – I’m just watching your silly painted faces in it. So it was when Blondfire’s Aurelien Levitan-directed video for “Where the Kids Are” oozed its way onto my browser. It’s R-rated (for excessive violence and candy). And it features and young lad who forgot his meds […]
With artists such as Guineafowl, Gotye and the Bleeding Knees Club recently coming through town, it’s been somewhat of an Australian invasion for L.A., but we don’t mind when rock bands like the Jezabels swing by again. Even after we caught the quartet at SXSW, songs such as “Mace Spray” and “Endless Summer” still have […]
Much ado and much to do on the first Monday day of Shovember: ‣ L.A. quintet Vanaprasta, its debut album “Healthy Geometry” just out last week, kicks off its residency at the Satellite, with Rocco DeLuca, Future Ghost, Newchild and Beatnik Jr. supporting. ‣ Great lineup for the opening night of the Chain Gang of […]
Plenty of Sunday fun: ‣ If it’s the first Sunday of the month, then it must be time for the Sunday Night Jones at the Satellite. Hosted by Daniel Ahearn and the Jones (and co-presented by Buzz Bands LA), tonight’s installment is headlined by Liz Clark, the Denver-born singer-songwriter cultivated her craft in the New […]
Saturday night is all right for … incredible small shows: ‣ Tour De France, the L.A.-based songwriting duo of Bernadette Colomine and Samuel H Collin, celebrate the release of a new album with a show at the Bootleg Theater that promises guest turns by Rufus and Martha Wainwright. London-based Still Corners, witha new reord just […]
Riding the wave of giddy, falsetto-addled electronica created by the likes of Foster the People, MGMT and Passion Pit, Athens, Ga.-based Reptar injects off-kilter elements, and that weird X-factor works for them. Synthesizers forward, Ryan Engelberger, William Kennedy, Andrew McFarland, Graham Ulicny and latest member Poof Daunghty have no shame in focusing on indie dance […]
Fonda, “Some Things Aren’t Worth Knowing” – Since we premiered the title track from their EP “Better Days” back in May, good things have happened for Fonda. The release has been picked up by Chicago-based label Minty Fresh, which will release and expanded version of “Better Days” on vinyl on Nov. 28. Yes, that means […]
[Happy Friday. I’ll post a radio preview in a bit, but I just want to mention here that the Buzz Bands LA show Moheak Radio moves to a new timeslot starting this week – 11 a.m. on Fridays. Talk to you later this morning …] Your fantastic Friday: ‣ Portland’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra plays the […]
Los Angeles can be such a divisive place. Natives can see its every flaw, chart its sprawl and decay. Emigrants can forever be awestruck by its wonder. Count Massachussetts native Hrishikesh Hirway, the force behind L.A. trio the One Am Radio, among the latter. He wrote “In a City Without Seasons,” off this year’s album […]
Others really have no say in what anyone chooses to do in his or her spare time, and if you happen to be wealthy and successful, there are more (albeit sometimes unnecessary) options for passing the time. In Foster the People‘s new Ace Norton-directed video, we see the L.A. electro pop band lying around a […]
