Totally Tuesday things: ‣ After two Coachella weekends, Bat For Lashes aka Natasha Khan [pictured] stops by the Fonda Theatre in support of her latest album “The Haunted Man.” Local lo-fi R&B songstress Ramona Gonzalez aka Nite Jewel supports. ‣ The El Rey Theatre hosts The Revival Tour, an acoustic collaborative showcase of today’s folk, Americana […]
The Jubilee Music & Arts Festival last week announced the lineup for its two-day event June 7-8 in downtown L.A., and since we’re still in a festival kind of mood, we thought it’d be cool to give you a sample of the wares. So enjoy the 32-track mixtape we’ve compiled, above. Tickets are $50 for […]
Coachella 2013 did not go quietly into the night – Red Hot Chili Peppers provided the festival-ending fireworks on a steamy day that offered none of the calamity of the previous weekend’s windstorm-plagued Sunday. If you were lucky, you caught Father John Misty dispensing some knowledge from a lawn chair, or Vampire Weekend rocking it […]
Considering they have a name like Purity Ring, lo-fi electronic R&B partners Megan James and and Corin Roddick of Edmonton put on quite the sensual show Thursday at the El Rey Theatre. Although the Canadian duo made the Coachella bill this year, people still flocked to the L.A. venue for a provocative experience in support […]
Happy Monday: ‣ With the release of their debut album “Synesthesia” only a week away, L.A. quartet Hands continue their residency at the Echo, with support from Body Parts, Caught a Ghost and DJ Valida. And Buzz Bands LA will be on hand for some between-band DJ sets. ‣ At the Bootleg Bar, it’s resident […]
Incoming: Stagecoach, Wavves, Japandroids, the Revival Tour, Herbie Hancock, Bat for Lashes, Spectrum, AraabMuzik, the Three O’Clock, Ziggy Marley, Viza, Har Mar Superstar, Manchester Orchestra, Telekinesis, Los Amigos Invisibles, Crystal Castles, the Veils, the Cave Singers, the Mother Hips, Shuggie Oits, Paul Van Dyk, Danzig, Ann Magnuson, Medeski Martin & Wood, the Lonely Forest Above: […]
The L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN is going on 2 years old, and through almost 100 shows now I’ve done my best to bring you the best and freshest songs – from the most diverse spectrum of southern California artists of any L.A. local-music show – every Sunday night. In the next week, we […]
Action Bronson’s afternoon set at Coachella on Saturday was much more about the party than the performance – and like any good dude hosting a bash on April 20, the Queens rapper brought an abundance of weed to the Outdoor Theatre. A few songs into his set, the man born Arian Asllani brought onstage a […]
The serious collided with the ridiculous on Saturday at Coachella, a day festival-goers got constant reminders of the week’s real-world events while losing their inhibitions to otherworldly temptations. Throughout the Empire Polo Field, many attendees wore Boston gear in a show of solidarity with the city victimized by last week’s terror attack. Celtic punkers the […]
Sunday things:Â ‣ Coachella Music and Arts Festival winds up with day 3 of weekend 2 at the Empire Polo Club. ‣ The Bootleg’s got a solid show featuring Cotillon, Vinyl Williams, Tapioca & the Flea and the Futures League. ‣ And Part-Time Punks present a two-for-one tonight. Upstairs at the Echo: Telescopes, LSD & […]
