Rainbow Jackson thrashes around in the dizzying space between today’s next-wave garage rockers and Stooges-inspired power-pop of the 1970s. The L.A. quartet of Chad Carlisle, Sam Daggett, Laith Khalaf and Andy Ford play as if they’re daring someone suggest they clean it up – which, happily, they haven’t and probably won’t. Their newest three-minutes blast […]
Forays for the last day of May: ‣ Suddenly huge Scottish electro trio CHVRCHES, with only this year’s “Recover” EP to their credit (they are currently mixing their full-length), hold forth at the Fonda Theatre, with London duo Still Corners opening. [Chvrches at the Echo in March.] ‣ Tijuana Panthers celebrate the release of their […]
Gypsy punk provocateurs Gogol Bordello have spent a decade raising hell – if not in socio-political arenas then on festival stages all over the world. They’ve been silent for a couple of years (except for the single “Let’s Get Crazy,” made in 2012 for a soda company’s ad campaign), but two weeks ago they announced […]
Smallpools are Sean Scanlon, Beau Kuther, Mike Kameran and Joe Intile. They make unfailingly catchy, bouncy, feel-good electro-pop, judging from their first volley. They sound like Passion Pit, Foster the People and Youngblood Hawke. They are Hype Machine-hot right now because the market can’t seem to get enough of unfailingly catchy, bouncy, feel-good electro-pop. Their […]
“What’s Your Name” may be a common question – especially the morning after a one-night stand – but it’s also the name of NO’s latest single which is now available on their 7-inch single with “Eleven Eleven” via White Iris Records. And just like their romantically dramatic video for breakout single “Stay With Me” off […]
[Buzz Bands LA today welcomes a new contributing writer, Andrew Veeder. He has flow too.] Last year, a 17-year-old kid from Brooklyn put out a new mixtape – but it sounded as if it’d been buried in a time capsule since his birth in 1995. Now eighteen, Joey Bada$$ is emerging as one of the […]
We marvel at this because, at age 23, I’m pretty sure I was still sucking my thumb: Lucy Schwartz’s third full-length album, “Timekeeper,” will be out Aug. 6, the latest chapter in an artistic growth spurt that started when she was at Palisades Charter High (her debut came out in ’07) and then wrote songs […]
On her “Daughter in the Choir” EP, as well as the first single she released after signing to Atlantic, Meg Myers exhibited a feral intensity, whether she was venting in a straight-ahead rock song or in her producer Doctor Rosen Rosen’s electro-addled world. Her new song “Cold,” however, takes Myers back to her singer-songwriter […]
The annual dose of Memorial Day Weekend good vibes known as the UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival returned to the campus’ Intramural Field on Saturday and Sunday, bring Santigold and Ziggy Marley as headliners to two days of music that spanned genres but were unified in spirit. Here’s a gallery of some of the highlights. Music […]
On the surface, there’s not very much folk about Grizfolk, the L.A. trio that for a time was going by the name Griz Adams until, one imagines, they got a threatening note carved in tree bark from a mountain man. There is, however, a whole lot that’s familiar about the first two songs from Adam […]