Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are rumored to be two of the big names playing this year’s FYF Fest on Aug. 24 and 25 at L.A. State Historic Park. FYF founder and co-promoter Sean Carlson will announce the lineup for the 10th annual festival – which this year moves from Labor Day Weekend to the […]
Let’s get the week started right, shall we? ‣ Buzz Bands LA presents tonight’s installment of the Criminal Hygiene residency at the Bootleg Bar, where Moses Campbell, Dirt Dress and the Cigarette Bums support (and Liv Marsico does a DJ set). ‣Â Serena Ryder, the Toronto-based singer behind hit “Stompa” and whose album “Harmony” is […]
Incoming: The Rolling Stones, KROQ Weenie Roast, Serena Ryder, Motorhead, Sara Bareilles, Bob Schneider, Gold Panda, Devendra Banhart, Andrew McMahon, Matt Costa, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., PAPA, Appleseed Cast, Andy Grammer, Richard Thompson, Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale, Seven Saturdays, Ariel Pink, Sonny & the Sunsets, Fabolous, Sea Wolf, Digitalism, Filligar, Big Boi, Quadron, the […]
Join me at 7 tonight for an eclectic Mother’s Day edition of the L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). I’ll have new tunes from Kisses, Draemings, Ten Brutes, Steelwells, Blue-Eyed Son and Young Hunting, along with that Eric Burdon/Jenny Lewis collaboration we posted about yesterday (which happened to be Burdon’s […]
Happy Mother’s Day and all that: ‣ Tom Jones is back for a second night at the Troubadour. ‣ David Lynch protegé Chrysta Bell [that’s her video for “Friday Night Fly,” above] plays the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ‣ Secret Chiefs 3 bring their cinematic, genre-mashing rock to the Bootleg Bar. ‣ And […]
First off, happy birthday Eric Burdon. The lead Animal turns 72 today, and that soulful voice of his keeps on giving. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who in January released a new solo album titled “’Til Your River Runs Dry,” has teamed with L.A. siren Jenny Lewis for a remake of the Animals’ […]
Saturday night is most definitely all right: ‣ Legendary pop singer Tom Jones headlines the Troubadour behind his new album “Spirit in the Room.” ‣ Marina and the Diamonds [that’s Marina, pictured] and Charli XCX team up for a big show at the Shrine Auditorium – they teamed up in the studio, too, before the […]
[pictured: his view from Griffith Park, via Instagram] We’ve heard Danny Choi’s smooth chops before when we became smitten with the warm R&B tune “Blow.” Now Choi – aka Ghost Loft – has a new track on the new compilation from the French label Kitsuné, “America 2.” Ghost Loft’s “So High” emits such euphoric summer-night […]
The land of sunshine and giant palms seems a strange breeding ground for the rustic sounds of the Record Company, but as the L.A. trio’s “Superdead” EP testifies, the blues can happen anywhere. Director John Cizmas’ video for “This Crooked City” flashes to the alluring and the hardscabble while singer-guitarist Chris Vos, bassist Alex Stiff […]
If this item seems a little discombobulated, that’s because it’s … hard … to type … when … you’re … on … the floor. That might be the destination for longtime followers of Bleu, the pure pop craftsman born William James McCauley III. The Berklee-educated, magnificently sideburned songwriter, whose first four albums pretty much put […]