[Welcome to Buzz Bands LA’s new feature “The Week Ahead.” Compiled by our new intern Claudine V., it’ll give you a snapshot of what’s ahead for the next seven days. We’ll be adding features to it as we progress.] Incoming: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, the Raincoats, the Joy Formidable, Memoryhouse, Islands, Drive-By Truckers, […]
Los Angeles – or about a 300-or-so-band segment of it – heads for Texas this week as the South by Southwest Music Festival converges on Austin. We’ll be swimming in music, starting with Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin: Love, L.A.” day party on Wednesday. Tonight’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at […]
Did you set your clocks forward? ‣ Taken By Trees, the indie-pop venture from ex-Concretes frontwoman Victoria Bergsman, recently signed with Secretly Canadian, and on the heels of her guest stint with Swedish dream-poppers Korallreven last week, the band plays its first L.A. gig in two years tonight at the Bootleg Theater. And Korallreven (Marcus […]
And then there was Saturday: ‣ Two bands with highly anticipated albums on the way – Magic Wands (pictured) and Gliss – team up with Sabrosa Purr and Harper Blynn at the benefit show for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s SXSW efforts at the Satellite. Magic Wands’ “Aloha Moon” is en route April 24, and […]
[Check out these new tunes from SXSW-bound L.A. artists we haven’t heard from in a while …] White Arrows, “Fireworks of the Sea” – It’s been a while since we’ve heard something new from Mickey Church and the gang, and for good reason. Following the success of their self-titled EP and the remix EP which […]
We’re gearing up for next week’s South by Southwest Music Festival at Buzz Bands LA HQ, and today on Moheak Radio I will feature songs from many of the bands making the trek to Austin. But L.A. won’t exactly be a ghost town while so many of its bands are in Texas – I’ll play […]
Nine SoCal bands are playing Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin: Love, L.A.” day party next Wednesday on the first day of the South by Southwest Music Festival. It seems like 999 SoCal bands are actually headed to Austin. When we started culling music from those artists, our uploader begged for for mercy. So we called […]
Have a fabulous 3/9/12: ‣ Guns N’ Roses, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, play the Palladium. (And it’s not sold out?) ‣ Vanaprasta (pictured) plays its first local gig in a few months when they bring their electric live show to the Bootleg Bar, where they are joined by Caught a Ghost and TS & […]
In a manner, Rocco DeLuca has come full circle. The L.A. native honed his chops at a long-running residency in Orange County from 2003 to ’05 and emerged as a contender with “I Trust You to Kill Me,” the first of two albums his band Rocco DeLuca and the Burden released on the independent label […]
Facts on File sound like a project David Byrne might’ve started in his garage in 1976, not such a bad thing for fans of angst-y post-punk or avant-garde pop. The trio of singer-bassist Joseph White, drummer Molly Durkin and guitarist Jason Spencer relocated to L.A. from San Francisco in 2009, and in late April they […]