For your super sunny Saturday:Â ‣Â Twin Shadow rolls through town again in support of his sophomore effort “Confess” and plays the Fonda Theatre. Elliphant and Touche open. ‣ Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar [that’s his video above for “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe”] get together at the Staples Center. ‣Â The Roots take on Club Nokia […]
There’s only a little bit of sorcery on the first EP from the new trio L.A. Witch. But there is plenty of mystery, along with a healthy dose of take-no-prisoners distortion, in their dark amalgam of psych-rock, garage and Americana. The all-female troika of singer-guitarist Sade Sanchez, bassist-organist Irita Pai and drummer Crystal Nava made […]
Holy heat wave, it’s Friday. That means it’s time for the Buzz Bands LA Show on Moheak Radio. Tune in at 11 a.m. for new music from, in no particular order, L.A. Witch, Moses Sumney, Yellow Marbles, the Vim Dicta, Elle Belle, Raw Geronimo, Spencer Livingston, Landon Marcus, Johnathan Rice, Nik Freitas and Ballerina Black. […]
We’ve been waiting a long time for Echo Park-based Spirit Vine to release their full-length, but we’ve also gotten some nice brooding tunes along the way. The pysch-rock quartet will release “Ascender” via Manimal Vinyl in August, and the latest teaser single “City Daze” is yet again another enticing hypnotic nugget to keep fans in […]
Your very busy and very steamy Friday night: ‣ Milo Greene returns to L.A. for a sold-out hometown show at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ‣ It’s a free night of music downtown at the FIGat7th Downtown Festival, with Allah Las, Brooklyn’s Prince Rama and Gothic Tropic. ‣ Baths headline the El Rey […]
Echo Park Rising is two days this year, Aug. 17 and 18, and the beginnings of the lineup was just announced. More acts will be added. Buzz Bands LA will be co-presenting a stage in the Champagne Room at Taix again this year. Stay tuned for the Saturday and Sunday set times.
Young LA. quintet Washing Machines are so rough around the edges you’re not sure where the edges are. Not that that’s a bad thing at all. The seven tracks on their debut EP, released in April, are a spin cycle of caustic guitars, angsty screams and melody, all adding up to ferocious energy that, while […]
As they showed at Coachella, Franz Ferdinand is still right. The Scottish quartet of Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy, Bob Hardy and Paul Thomson proved the cream of the post-punk crop with their 2004 and ’05 albums (“Franz Ferdinand” and “You Could Have it So Much Better,” respectively) before experimenting with synths on their not-so-creamy third […]
Your slate of free outdoors summertime concerts just got more crowded. The Belle Brigade will kick off the 17th annual Sunset Concert Series at the Skirball Center on Thursday, July 25. The L.A. trio of siblings Ethan and Barbara Gruska and Keith Karman, working on a follow-up to their 2011 debut, will play the first […]
AM & Shawn Lee have bonded over ’60s pych-pop and ’70s Italian music, but their follow-up to their 2011 debut “Celestial Electric” turns up the disco. “La Musique Numérique” may sound auspicious considering Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” becoming a smash in the same season, but no matter. Alongside disco, the new record also embraces new […]