Wednesday’s options: ‣ Chicago five-piece JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound,n whose third album “Howl” is just out, bring their amped-up soul to the Roxy Theatre. Lisa Loeb supports. ‣ It’s a second night of Alt-J at the Hollywood Palladium. ‣ Canadian duo Purity Ring and U.K. producer Jon Hopkins are back for a second […]
I arrive on your digital doorstep once again to sing the praises of the Spires, whose slack, jangling guitar pop continues to seduce the same way the great U.K. indie bands of the ’80s and ’90s did. Singer-guitarist Jason Bays and gang (bassist Catie Kindred, guitar Bryan Russell, drummer Brook Dalton) have been plugging away […]
TV on the Radio does have a new full-length in the works. We think. Hope. Or intuited from their performance Saturday at FYF Fest. Until then, there is the new single “Million Miles,” an expansive pop song that takes on a deeper meaning thanks to the video directed by Kyp Malone and Natalia Leite. Malone […]
L.A. native Banks continues to take off. She announced today that her “London” EP would be out Sept. 10 via Harvest Records and debuted a deep, dark video for the single “Waiting Game.” It’s directing by Emmy-nominated Francesco Carrozzini in appropriately deep, dark fashion. The EP features collaborations with producers SOHN, TEED, Jamie Woon, Tim […]
Art-pop agitators Ryder Bach and Alina Cutrono – dba Body Parts – are calling their forthcoming album “Fire Dream,” but it could just as well be titled “We Make Neuroses Fun.” The inspiration for record, says Bach, is a nightmare in which he witnessed the murder of his parents by a close friend. Now that […]
As many of you know, there’s more to college than just, well, college. So L.A. quintet the Ten Thousand made the most of its time at UCLA. The band – Kevin Moultrie, Dylan Robin, Garrett Harney, Satoru Yamamoto and Nathan Kersey-Wilson – is kicking up dust by making high-energy rock that’s somewhere between what you heard on […]
Tuesday’s things: ‣ Canadian duo Purity Ring and U.K. producer Jon Hopkins – more than just tourmates, they have been collaborators – team up for the first of two nights at the Fonda Theatre. Stream this Hopkins song that features Purity Ring’s vocals, “Breathe This Air,” yeah? ‣ British indie-rockers and Mercury Prize winners Alt-J, […]
Did you miss anything at FYF Fest? Did you miss FYF Fest altogether? Buzz Bands LA reviewed 37 of the 57 acts and published more than 150 photos from the weekend’s 10th annual FYF, which announced ticket sales of 30,000 for the dusty, bustling proceedings at L.A. State Historic Park. Here are quick links to […]
Omar Souleyman, Shlohmo, Flume, Glasser, How to Dress Well, Pional, Antwon ||| Photos by Carl Pocket After the jump, more photos and capsule reviews:
The Melvins, Baroness, Touché Amoré, Chelsea Wolfe, Mac DeMarco, Jonathan Richman ||| Photos by Carl Pocket After the jump, more photos and capsule reviews: