Incoming: The Mavericks, Busdriver, Thalia, Heartless Bastards, Spirit Animal, Mika, Flux Pavilion, Inc., Anthrax, Billy Bragg, Ghostface Killah, Jamie Lidell, the Lonely Wild, Fol Chen, Foxygen, Daedelus, Veronica Falls, Poolside, Lalah Hathaway, Living Colour Above: That’s the video for “You Naked,” from Jamie Lidell. The British singer-songwriter’s latest album, “Jamie Lidell,” came out in February, […]
Join me as I swing into spring (sorry, I always wanted to write that) tonight with the post-vernal equinox edition of the L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org). I’ll have freshly minted tunes from Black Apples, Broken Anchor, Tijuana Panthers, Pacific Air and the Milk Carton Kids, along with a […]
Sunday things… ‣ Hip hop artist Hoodie Allen headlines the El Rey Theatre wiht Aer and Jared Evan as support. ‣ L.A.’s experimental pop quartet Body Parts teams up with and San Francisco’s chamber pop band Foxtails Brigade at the Satellite. ‣ It’s a also solid lineup over at the Smell with Moses Campbell, the […]
Your super Saturday: ‣ British psych-rockers Django Django, whose acclaimed debut came out last year< headline the Fonda Theatre. That’s their video for “WOR,” above. ‣ Day 2 of the Burgerama blowout at the Observatory in O.C. features Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, White Fence, King Tuff, FIDLAR, Hunx & His Punx, Beachwood Sparks, Allah-Las, Shannon […]
[File under More People We Should Not Have Missed at SXSW But Did:] Citizens! sound far too young to have any idea what “True Romance” really is, but that’s part of the dodge here. The London five-piece melds stabbing electro-pop and ’70s glam into punky, funky dance-pop that masks its hard, chewy center with the […]
It took Los Angeles to bring French musicians Vincent Jacob and Fanny Hill together. Well, that and a mutual fascination with sprawling psych-rock, the desert and the shadowy places of the human heart. Their collaboration Yard of Blondes, which has come to include bassist Dean Chamberlain and drummer Ben Lecourt, has yielded an EP of […]
Yes, I think I am finally over my SXSW hangover. Thanks, everybody, for asking. And if I sound a little bit caffeinated on today’s Buzz Bands LA Show, there’s good reason: The inbox was flooded with new music upon arriving back home, and I’m trying to sort it all. In that spirit, I’m cramming a […]
[File under People We Should Not Have Missed at SXSW But Did:] It’s as if Airick Woodhead committed every single sound and idea in his head to the songs on his Doldrums album “Lesser Evil.” And suffice to say there are plenty – his psychedelic collages of outer-space beats, astral melodies and strange effects seem […]
A Friday full of possibilities: ‣ The first day of Burgerama goes off at the Observatory in Orange County – the lineup features Black Lips, the Spits, Bleached, Nick Waterhouse, Bizarre Ride II, the Pharcyde, Night Beats, Pangea, Merchandise, Tijuana Panthers, the Audacity, the Lovely Bad Things, White Fang, the Garden, Feeding People, the Abigails, […]
When the music of Yoodoo Park first emerged last summer, he joined the growing pool of young artists trading in hazy, lazy and some would say forgettable pop steeped in a reverb and nostalgia. He must’ve been eating his Wheaties since. The Japan-born, southern California-reared 20-year-old, who makes music as GRMLN, has unveiled the first […]