Sometimes you hear a voice and wonder where it’s been all this time, and why this voice hasn’t been singing all your favorite songs all along. Often such an artist had been writing hit songs for other people, and that’s exactly the case with Scottish soul and R&B singer Emeli Sandé. With tunes like the […]
It took Eyes Lips Eyes over a year to record 2011’s “Blue Red,” but the quartet, who call their sound “disco-punk,” are already hard at work on their follow-up album. Perhaps it’s because Tony Hello, Spencer Petersen, Aaron Hatch and Thomas Carroll all felt the rushing momentum of L.A. as soon as they made the […]
With all these obituaries having been written for the music industry, how come so many artists on the Buzz Bands LA radar keep getting signed?
The new single from Metric is a sexy beast, Emily Haines cooing over an alpine guitar line and insistent beats. Makes you want to hear more of the quartet’s fifth album, “Synthetica,” doesn’t it? Well, that’s what Metric is counting on. They’ve turned it into a little game – Synthetica Hide and Seek – in […]
M83 have been busy touring in support of their latest record “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” (we’ve witnessed three of those dates since its release), but they also continue to bear gifts in the form of highly cinematic music videos. The story line for the electrifying “Reunion” picks up right where the clip for “Midnight City” […]
Saying goodbye to the month of May: ‣ The “Church Sessions” at the First Unitarian Church (2938 W. 8th Street) kick off with a slate of Diego Garcia, Ryat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Aaron Embry. [See Tuesday’s post.] ‣ Jack White does a second night at the Wiltern. ‣ Active Child (pictured) winds up a month-long, […]
The weekend’s 26h annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA packed a punch with a lineup of the Roots, Alison Hinds, Booker T, Shaggy, Gary Clark Jr. and more. Check out Randall Roberts’ review for the Times. Photographer Scott Dudelson shared this gallery with Buzz Bands LA.
Jotted on a napkin while free-associating with the Henry Clay People’s album “Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives,” coming out June 26 on TBD Records: We know that what we are doing is transitory, and we will very likely – although reluctantly – grow out of it. We know that what we are doing […]
The calendar for free summertime concert series is rapidly filling, but there is one longtime favorite that will be conspicuously absent this year: the Also I Like to Rock shows at the Hammer Museum. Also I Like to Rock had a seven-year run of bringing live music to the Hammer courtyard every Thursday in July. […]