Some dude named Oscar is going to steal our thunder tonight, but we are undaunted – the L.A. Buzz Bands Show plows ahead with an hour SoCal music worthy of a nomination for Best Soundtrack to Your Sunday Night. Tune into KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at kcsn.org) at 7 p.m. for new music from Great […]
Sunday fun day:Â ‣ Alternative reggae-rockers 311Â (pictured) headline the Roxy Theatre. DJ Unite also spins. ‣Â The Reflections conclude their residency over at the Satellite tonight. The Dead Ships and the Breakups round out the bill for tonight’s finale. ‣Â Matt Embree’s new band, Biceratops, stops by Bootleg Bar tonight. Big Sir (Lisa Papineau and Juan Alderete […]
By Gabriel Jones Not a lot of magic happens anymore. So what happens when the old magicians come back to town? Nick Cave – Tom Jones and Neil Diamond for the indie set, Johnny Cash for the heroin set, Thom Yorke for the testosterone set, part David Johansen, part Ian Curtis, looking like the feral […]
Your Saturday selections: ‣ Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters does at the Church Sessions at the First Unitarian Church LA. Sun Kil Moon’s latest collaboration of the Album Leaf, “Perils of the Sea,” comes out April 30. ‣ Robert Randolph hits UCLA’s Royce Hall behind the new album he did with some […]
I’m not sure what it is about punk bands and their affinity for the Grim Reaper, but the audio antics of Portland’s psych-rock group Aan are perfectly paired with this Mike Wilson-directed clip for their 7-inch single “Mystery Life.” What are you supposed to do when the Grim Reaper is out to get you? The answer […]
No group in Los Angeles has left a bigger musical footprint the past decade than the members of Rilo Kiley. Besides four albums starting with 2001’s “Take Offs and Landings,” the quartet has bred solo careers, side projects and other collaborations. Siren Jenny Lewis made two solo albums (one with the Watson Twins) and paired […]
If you weren’t around for Summer of Love or the Human Be-In – and we somehow suspect that most of you weren’t – find the photo gallery of your choice and listen to “Coast to Coast,” the new single from the Blank Tapes. (Heightening your experience in any other way is strictly optional, mind you.) […]
Hot As Sun wear their affectations just so, from their playful take on ’80s disco to … well, dahncing, dahlings. On their forthcoming album “Night Time Sound Desire,” the trio of Jamie Jackson, Deborah Stoll and Waz concoct a world in which you can fall in and out of love in four dizzying minutes, after […]
It’s time again for our weekly Friday frolic – the Buzz Bands LA Show on Moheak Radio. Join me at 11 a.m. for new music from Annie Hardy, Hustle Roses, Nightmare Air, Salt Petal, Naomi Greenwald, the Lovely Bad Things, George Glass, Bulletins, Black Hi-Lighter, Michael Davis With Lions and In Waves, along with recent […]
Friday night fun: ‣ Coheed and Cambria rock the Wiltern behind this month’s release of the second volume of their double album, “The Afterman: Descension.” Between The Buried And Me and Russian Circles open. That’s Coheed and Cambria’s video for “Dark Side of Me,” above. ‣ Chicago’s teenage garage-rockers the Orwells make noise at the […]