Hot tunes for a steamy weekend – that’s the theme for the L.A. Buzz Bands Show at 9 tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). I’ll have new songs from the Cold and Lovely, Together Pangea, Moving Units, In the Valley Below and Lily Kershaw, as well as a playlist that you can use […]
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday … ‣ It’ll be another day of all-star hip-hop and holograms – Eazy-E appeared with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony last night, and ODB is going to rise from the dead tonight – at the Rock the Bells at the San Manuel Amphitheater. Wu-Tang Clan, Dilated Peoples, Freddie Gibbs, Deltron 3030, Joey Bada$$ and Action […]
‣ Talib Kweli Kid Culi, KRS-One, A-Trak, Pusha T and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – along with triple-digit temperatures – await at Rock the Bells at the San Manual Amphitheater. Set times here. Stay cool. ‣ Old-school soul emulators Vintage Trouble, fresh off a Leno appearance, headline the El Rey Theatre. That’s their video for “Pelvis Pusher,” […]
The Pixies, who earlier this week surprised everyone by releasing a new EP, have another in store – a show tonight at the Echo. Tickets are $10 and available here. (The password is BAGBOY.) The band, now with the Muffs’ Kim Shattuck replacing Kim Deal on bass, has four sold-out L.A. shows coming up, Sept. […]
[Note: The Indie FM site is undergoing some construction – click here to listen to the show in iTunes. Or check out the stream after the jump.] What a week. It’s as if there was end-of-summer sale on new songs. Today on the Buzz Bands LA Show on The Independent FM, I will share some […]
Signer-songwriter Lily Kershaw has knack for taking the simplest of ideas and making them seem ascendant. “Nothing is ever as it seems,” the L.A. native sings over a plaintive piano line in the lilting single “As It Seems,” and never has that platitude resounded with such depth. The single, which drew attention as the backdrop […]
After a series of cassette-only releases, the third of which being “Cassette 3: The Marion Morrison Mixtape,” producer/rapper Jonwayne is set to release his debut LP, appropriately titled “Rap Album One,” on Oct. 29 on Stones Throw. Its first single is “Reflection,” an unconventional and genre-jumping track. Beginning with sparse piano, then adding driving drums, […]
Friday frolics: ‣ ZZ Ward has graduated to headlining tours – she visits the House of Blues behind her album “Til the Casket Drops,” with the Wild Feathers and James Bay supporting. ‣ Big night for Anticon at the Echo and Echoplex; the label celebrates its 15-year anniversary with performances from Baths, Why?, Jel, D33J, Daedelus, […]
Although it was cool of Sleigh Bells – the Brooklyn duo comprised of Derek Miller and Alexis Kruass – to direct their own video for new single “Bitter Rivals” through the Creators Project, it isn’t distracting enough to sway one from comparing them to the Ting Tings. Sleigh Bells’ mashup of R&B, pop, punk and electronica […]
Oklahoma-based punk quartet Broncho has released an album that is shorter than most EPs these days, but that’s what works for them and what may work for many ’70s-inclined fans of punk rock. With 10 songs in a tick over 20 minutes, “Can’t Get Past the Lips” doesn’t have a single song that approaches the […]