Holiday weekend? What holiday weekend? I’ll be engaged in my regular Sunday labor tonight when the L.A. Buzz Bands Show convenes at 9 o’clock on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). I’ll have music from forthcoming releases by Sneakout, Black Hi-Lighter, the Fontaines and the Luxembourg Signal, along with new tracks from Dear Boy and […]
Here’s the music menu for the final day of August: ‣ It’s Day 2 of the Made In America festival, with Kanye West, John Mayer, Steve Aoki, Rise Against, Chance the Rapper, Juanes, Weezer, Nipsey Hussle, Cypress Hill, Mutemath, SZA, Rita Ora, Scavnger Hunt, Classixx, Borgore, Terraplane Sun and more. It’s all happening at Grand […]
How many times has Ty Segall played the Echo anyhow? Betcha he’s lost count. Betcha this current run of sold-out shows – Friday night was the second of four – rank as some the best. Segall worked himself, and the crowd, into a frenzy on Friday with songs from his new album “Manipulator” and the […]
Happy Labor Day weekend: ‣ Made In America, the 2-day festival spearheaded by Jay Z’s Roc Nation and sponsored by Budweiser, kicks off today in downtown L.A.’s Grand Park with Imagine Dragons, Kendrick Lamar, Iggy Azalea [that’s her video for “Black Widow†featuring Rita Ora above], Afrojack, Sublime with Rome, Metric, Capital Cities, X Ambassadors, Dr. Dog, […]
Those familiar with Michael Orendy’s rapturous albums as Frankel may have been surprised two years ago when he unveiled Paw City, the new electro-rock project undertaken with his wife (and member of Earlimart) Ariana Murray. The first Paw City EP, released in June 2013, straddled the line between catchy and wonky (think: Grandaddy), and now […]
“I’m still trying to make sense of it all,” Daniel Ahearn says of the past two years, which have seen the end of the L.A. singer-songwriter’s marriage, his growing into his new role as father, the birth of a new musical project with Mindy Jones and, in general, a spike in his songwriting career that […]
In movie parlance, Together Pangea’s recent headlining set at Echo Park Rising was another in a long line of thrillers for the L.A. rockers. The new video for the title track to their album “Badillac” (released earlier this year on Harvest Records), though, is more B-movie horror stuff – and all viciously funny. The video […]
Since her experimental early days, Nika Roza Danilova – aka Zola Jesus – has sought to make deep connections with her music, and on her forthcoming album for Mute Records, “Taiga” (due Oct. 7), the Russian American singer, who was reared in Wisconsin, plays Earth angel, at least thematically. The taiga is a boreal forest […]
If you’re just leaving the office to enjoy your long holiday weekend, we’ve got the perfect song to soundtrack your escape. Thurston Moore‘s title track of his forthcoming album “The Best Day” seems appropriate and there’s more good news than just the song itself. Moore recently formed a new band with James Sedwards (Nought), Deb Googe […]
If you’re like me, you can’t wait for the weekend to start. I’m here to tell you that it does, officially, at 11 a.m. when the Buzz Bands LA Show kicks off on The Independent FM. Join me for two hours of SoCal music, including new tunes from Avi Buffalo, Dekades, KAV, Hobart W Fink, […]