Songwriter Patrick Thomas’ wounds of love don’t appear to be healing quickly – at least, not judging from his band Duniven’s new EP “These Dreams.” The follow-up to last year’s lovelorn full-length “I Need to Try for Her” finds the Duniven still treading water in organ- and harmonica-drenched Americana, with the frontman’s pained vocals channeling […]
Fitz & the Tantrums, the L.A. pop-soul outfit who just played the Coachella main stage and whose debut album “Pickin’ Up the Pieces” has now sold north of 126,000 copies, get their turn at the Hollywood Bowl on July 1 when they join a bill that includes SoCal native Ben Harper and Saharan wizard Vieux […]
Michael Davis gets under your skin. The Midwestern native, ensconced in L.A. three years now, trades in keyboard-warmed folk-pop that tugs at the heartstrings and laments their every twinge of pain. It’s no surprise Davis – now doing business as Michael Davis With Lions – has found kindred spirits in other songwriters whose currency is […]
Happy Monday: ‣ Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum [pictured] does a post-Coachella show at the Orpheum Theatre. ‣ Big night at It’s a School Night – LP brings her big vocals to Bardot, along with Brooklyners (and one of our Coachella highlights) We Are Augustines and Sweet Hearts, the sweet new collaboration between Priscilla Ahn […]
The L.A. Buzz Bands Show returns tonight to KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) after a week off – I was running around the polo grounds at Coachella – for a very special Sunday evening of local music. KCSN is in the midst of “The Pledge Express,” the listener-supported stations semiannual fund-raising drive that’s unlike […]
Sunday’s select music menu: ‣ Coachella weekend two wraps up in Indio as Dre. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac’s hologram, At the Drive-In, Florence + the Machine, Justice and more headline in the desert. ‣ Meanwhile at Dillon’s Roadhouse, Akron/Family [that’s their video for “Cast a Net”], Here We Go Magic, the Entrance Band, Mini Mansions […]
If you’ve packed your things for a weekend at Coachella (perhaps returning for round two), you can check out what the desert’s got going on for Record Store Day here. But if you’ve decided to stick around in L.A., make sure to head on down to your favorite local spots to grab some exclusive vinyl […]
The Buzz Bands LA show returns to Moheak Radio at 11 this morning, still hung over from the first weekend of Coachella (and not able to make Weekend 2, regrettably). I’ll be shaking off the desert cobwebs and trying to catch up on a lot of new local music that has flooded the inbox – […]
‣ Weekend 2 of Coachella kicks off with the Black Keys, Pulp, Gary Clark Jr., Arctic Monkeys, Jimmy Cliff & Tim Armstrong, Girls, Explosions in the Sky, Other Lives and more. ‣ Canadian electro producer Felix Cartal [pictured] headlines the Avalon Hollywood behind his new release on Dim Mak Records, “Different Faces.” ‣ Good local […]
LA Font certainly don’t have an aversion to out-of-the-box concepts, and in their new video for “Sharks,” it’s obvious they don’t have anything against McDonald’s. They may have slightly altered the famous golden arches, but going to six different locations of the Big Mac franchise to film the clip is an entirely different level of […]
