The first Buzz Bands LA Show of the year on Moheak Radio will bring all kinds of new flavors – our inbox is already flooded with fresh music, and there’s plenty from 2011 to catch up on too. I’ll have fresh tunes from six artists playing free residencies this month, previews of upcoming shows, some […]
Your slammin’ busy Friday: ‣ First Fridays at the Natural History Museum kicks off its 2012 series by welcoming Mariachi El Bronx, along El Haru Kuroi. ‣ No Age heads up a huge lineup at the Smell, which kicks off its weekend-long 14th anniversary celebration. s celebrates its 14th anniversary. ‣ Excellent up-and-coming folk-rock band […]
Since he released his trippy debut album “A” in 2008, Matt Gangi – who does business as Gangi – has been painstakingly working on the next step. Did I say “painstakingly?” I meant .. agonizingly … slow. It’s OK, though. Gangi, who has a new collaborator in Eric Chramosta (replacing Lyle Nesse), has now put […]
Their name may sound silly, but Jacuzzi Boys have quickly shifted the focus from their frivolous moniker to the liveliness in their music during the last couple of years. The Miami, Fla.,-based trio’s 2009 debut “No Seasons” was a record bursting with ”˜60s-leaning pop-punk tunes, and their accompanying boisterous shows have earned them fans such […]
There’s not much to the video except a lot of slow-mo detonations, but the news is that Shadow Shadow Shade, with little fanfare, unveiled a new song this morning. “Tell Me Who You Are” is a languid ballad featuring a Brian Canning/Claire McKeown duet. The song will be part of a three-track release the Los […]
The Lovely Bad Things are so much fun that you’ll want to bottle your sweat for the next time. The young quartet, straight outta La Mirada, fashions undeniably hooky, unfailingly cathartic proto-punk that abides all traditions of garage rock – biting guitar riffs, furious rhythms, shout-sung lyrics and more than enough ’tude go with their […]
Thursday’s toil and trouble: ‣ L.A. four-piece Vintage Trouble spent much of 2011 thrilling audiences in the U.K., where their retro rock ’n’ soul transported Jools Holland fans back to the ’50s and ’60s, they opened for Bon Jovi and they earned reviews comparing singer Ty Taylor to a young James Brown. They bring their […]
Omniflux arrived on our radar with a bang in October with the brooding “Boy Caught in a Dress,” and the solo incarnation of Mahsa Zargaran figures to stay there if she keeps churning out singles like her new “She and Him.” Zargaran, a classically trained pianist known in local rock circles as the drummer for […]
Edson Choi and Dre Babinksi were bandmates in the defunct Dusty Rhodes & the River Band, but both have moved on to new adventures. Choi has gone on to play a key part in Warships, and Babinski has taken her talents as a violinist on tour with Jarrod Gorbel and the Elected, as well as […]
Youth Lagoon’s just-add-reverb pop is a study in the stultifying (and we recognize ours is a minority opinion), but it sure does make for good cinema. Director Tyler T Williams’ video for “July” – off young songwriter Trevor Powers’ debut album “The Year of Hibernation” – is bloody good. Williams had previously captured Youth Lagoon’s […]
