It’s been five years. Thanks for reading, following, reacting, interacting, streaming, downloading, liking, unliking, viewing, sniping and generally paying attention. From the bottom of my heart. Buzz Bands LA invites you to help us celebrate, by joining us on a night of gloriously great guitar pop on Friday, Sept. 27 at the Satellite featuring Army […]
L.A.-based trio Dark Furs, comprised of Suzanne May, Chad Phillipps and Garrett Henritz, ratchets up the rock ’n’ roll tension and splashes it with a little psychedelic blues on their single “Concrete Corners.” Sure, “March to the beat of my own drummer” is a well-worn phrase in both day-to-day conversations and rebellious anthems, but May infuses […]
Pretty soon Meg Myers is not going to have any veins left to open. “Desire,” the new single from the L.A.-based singer-songwriter, is another in a line of bloodletters from the one-time Tennesseean, who announced this week that her first EP for Atlantic Records would be out in early 2014. “Desire” features a solo from […]
AM & Shawn Lee, Gavin Turek, Moses Sumney, Cosmic Kids and the Chain Gang of 1974 are among the artists playing this year’s Abbot Kinney Festival, the free neighborhood event going off Sept. 29 in Venice. There’s music on two stages from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. along Abbot Kinney Boulevard between Main Street and […]
Wow, what a Thursday: ‣ The summer’s Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier winds up with a performance by the legendary Jimmy Cliff, along with the Delirians and Ethan Tucker. It certainly won’t the final party of the yer at the Pier – not with next weekend’s The Beach Ball festival and the […]
We’ve been admiring China Rats ever since the Leeds quartet energized our tired legs at SXSW last March, half-expecting a bulletin that they would arrive in Los Angeles for a show sometime soon. Alas, it has remained a long-distance love affair. It probably has something to do with “No Money,” because, we’d bet a few […]
Brick by brick. That’s how Davis Fetter is building his catalog. When he broke away from the band Venus Infers back in 2011, the Orange County-bred singer-songwriter professed his love for singles and only singles. And unlike many artists in recent years who announce plans to release series of singles and then revert to the […]
What Canadian synth-pop sextet Austra doesn’t convey in sound, they certainly project in their appearance. At their show Monday at the Echoplex – which followed a sold-out date in June at the Troubadour – they arrived in full persona, two men clad in plastic neon green rompers standing as pillars to four women on stage, […]
A bounty of good shows tonight: ‣ Julia Holter, whose new album and third full-length in as many years “Loud City Heart” is just out on Domino, plays the First Unitarian Church in Koreatown. Nedelle Torrisi and Anenon open, and the Dublab DJs and the Wild Up! Orchestra will also be on hand. Above is […]
Although “She Cut Me” was a nice slice of audio in anticipation of Active Child‘s new EP, “Rapor,” fans finally get an official single off the follow-up to his highly regarded debut “You Are All I See.” Written in a glass house, which also provided the namesake for the EP (“Ra” meaning sun and “Por” […]