“Feel Me” may be the most concise title Evan Voytas has come up with lately considering songs such as “Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere,” “Can’t Let Anybody Know Who You Are,” and the most recent single “You Don’t Even Know Where It’s At.” However, along with that mouthful is always a rich earful. Initially garnering […]
Perhaps the biggest problem with electro- and indie-soul these days is that so many other young artists are doing real soul so well. So forgive me if the test-tube R&B of Electric Guest – the collaboration of songwriters Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton – comes off as overly sanitized. Electric Guest has no shortage of buzz […]
Talk about stretching out: The bi-coastal collaboration doing business as 2 Hearts and Chemicals is yielding a sound as big as the land. The forthcoming album from Eli Lhymn, the L.A.-based songwriter who played guitar for Helen Stellar, and boyhood pal Stephen Biebel, who lives in New York City, picks up where their 2011 EP […]
Bowery Beasts’ last EP “Heavy You” was a raucous combination of guts, garage-rock and glitter that you imagined was conceived in the days the Sunset Strip was merely an idea. The follow-up is a blast too. A digital release, “The Flowers of Lucifer Lovelace” will be out this week on Winter Palace Records, the imprint […]
Chicago-born, L.A.-based songstress Haroula Rose will headline the next installment of Buzz Bands LA’s monthly songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe. Rather than our traditional second-Tuesday-of-the-month date for the series, this show will happen the first Tuesday, Feb. 7 (so we don’t conflict with your Valentine’s Day plans, naturally). Rose, whose debut album “These Open […]
The songs of Zenda Marie at times feel so fragile they might break, were they not imbued with the pliable spirit of folk music. The Los Angeles-based duo of Arkansas native Galen Scroggins and Sacramento-born Kelsie Wilber have a sweet story of the happy accident that began their collaboration – something involving testing microphones – […]
From the minute Robert Francis – then barely out of his teens – released his debut album “One by One” in 2007, it was clear his was a voice fans of dusty-road Americana would want to heed for years. Or, in the case of recent developments, spend a couple of years waiting to hear again. […]
It’s a mighty good Monday (if you ignore the weather): ‣ At the Satellite, where Chasing Kings’ residency roars into its fourth week, U.K. quartet the Chevin makes its L.A. debut. That’s the video for the title track from the West Yorkshire lads’ 2011 EP, “Champion,” above. Tonight’s bonus – you also gets sets from […]
If we are to believe the FYF Fest’s Facebook page, the downtown L.A. festival – which rallied from consecutive problem-plagued years to stage a virtual mini-Coachella last September – will be a two-day affair in 2012. The page’s latest status says: “FYF Fest. Sept. 1st & 2nd. Tell us 5 bands that you’d like to […]
Tune into the L.A. Buzz Bands show in its new time slot – 7 p.m. on Sundays on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) – for an hour’s worth of delicious tunes from SoCal artists. Tonight’s program will introduce fresh voices Tyler Lyle, Meg Myers and a new collaboration calling themselves Sweet Hearts. Plus I’ll […]