The rest of the weekend is rising right along with Echo Park: ‣ Echo Park Rising, ballooning to three days this year, kicks off with free shows at more that a dozen venues around the neighborhood, with Allah-Las, Woods and Crystal Skulls highlighting the outdoor stage at Taix and a great cast of local bands […]
UPDATED: midnight Friday We know your first thought: “Damn, that’s a [blank]load of band names on that poster.” Yes, it is. It’s Echo Parking Rising, the free neighborhood festival that rose from the ashes of Sunset Junction in 2011. It’s expanded to three days this year, Friday through Sunday, and we count 291 names on […]
A lot of the time, less is more, and Brooklyn’s She Keeps Bees have mastered that mantra on their latest album “Eight Houses.” This will be the fourth full-length released by Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant, but it will be the first time they are working with an outside producer. With Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, The […]
Through a shroud of darkness and smoke, Tahliah Barnett strode on stage at the El Rey on Tuesday night in a hip white Princess Jasmine-esque jumpsuit, focused and poised like an artist beyond her years, and the crowd reacted with applause and enthusiasm. A former backup dancer from the U.K., she became known as Twigs […]
A big Thursday of concerts: ‣ With their new album “The Physical World” due Sept. 9, dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979 headlines the Troubadour for a sold-out show. ‣ Imelda May [pictured] the sultry, bluesy rockabilly siren whose new album “Tribal” comes out Sept. 23, plays the El Rey Theatre, supported by the Rhythm […]
Echo Park Rising, the free neighborhood festival that has extended from two days to three days, is just around the corner. Festivities will kick off Friday, Aug. 15 and continue through Sunday Aug. 17, and Buzz Bands LA is once again privileged to be curating one stage during the festival, in the Champagne Room at Taix […]
“Colors of the Cold,” the first song on dream-weaver Rocco DeLuca’s new album, somehow runs two temperatures at the same time, at once suggesting icy and distant while glowing with the warm ambiance concocted by producer Daniel Lanois. The song is but one example of the wizardry on the songwriter’s “Rocco DeLuca,” which comes out […]
The Baltimore duo Silk Rhodes, composed of vocalist Sasha Desree and producer Michael Collins, recently signed to Stones Throw Records, who just released their debut 7-inch this week. Its single “Pains” is a dusty slow-burner, a nuanced mellow groove with a lumbering bass line, orchestral swells and some vintage ’70s guitar twang. The B-side, “Face […]
How to get wowed on a Wednesday: ‣ Aloe Blacc [pictured], D’Angelo, Angélique Kidjo and Bettye LaVette are the special guests at the Hollywood Bowl for “Get On Up: A James Brown Celebration,” which features Christian McBride as musical director and a host of people who once played in Brown’s band. ‣When’s that debut album […]
Allah-Las will return Sept. 16 with their sophomore effort “Worship the Sun” via Innovative Leisure. To follow up their 7-inch single “501-415,” the psychedelic garage-rock quartet releases the video for its b-side “No Werewolf.” The tune itself is a cover of a song by the Frantics, but the video is actually the work of Russian […]
