Sunset Junction, who needs ya? That seemed to be the attitude on Saturday as Silver Lake, Echo Park and downtown sprang to life on Saturday, with music venues and other businesses opening their doors to bands displaced by the cancellation of the annual street fair. Fans shuttled to and from locales hosting day- and nighttime […]
Picks for a super Sunday: ‣ Twenty years after his death, French songwriter/actor/director Serge Gainsbourg remains a huge influence on the pop music of today. Tonight’s Serge Gainsbourg Tribute at the Hollywood Bowl features the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra led by Jean Claude Vannier and Scott Dunn – accompanied by an A-list band including bassist Justin […]
Fans who bought advance tickets to Sunset Junction might have a hard time getting a refund. At least, that’s the way ticketing agency Flavorus.com makes it sound. Not surprisingly considering the week’s developments, Sunset Junction’s promoter is not picking up the phone, although via Twitter on Wednesday the organizers assured: “Tickets/vendors money will be refund […]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, originally scheduled to play Sunset Junction and then scheduled to play a show Sunday night at the Echoplex, have canceled the latter show because they are stranded in New York City. The Sunday show will go on, featuring Charles Bradley and Hands. A statement from Clap Your Hands: Due to […]
[No Junction today, but plenty of functions:] ‣ Everest and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit are the main-stage attractions at the third annual Buskerfest, going off in the East Village Arts District of downtown Long Beach. Two Guns, Pawnshop Kings and Jay Buchanan are among the artists performing throughout the evening on three others stages. […]
It won’t hold a Ferris wheel (and you might need a neck brace after seeing a show in the loft), but the cozy Origami Vinyl record store is transforming itself into a mini-Sunset Junction this weekend. In fact, in the aftermath of the cancellation of the annual festival, the Echo Park business community is doing […]
Originally today’s Buzz Bands LA show on Moheak Radio was going to be my big Sunset Junction preview. Alas, we know how that turned out. Still, today’s show (3 p.m. Pacific, you know the drill) will feature music from a host of bands who’ve scheduled gigs in lieu of the Junction, as well as some […]
If you’ve ever wanted to see members of ‘N Sync get beaten up, Portland’s indie-tronic band Dropa has taken care of that. In Micah Tamblyn, Matthew Higgins and Keith Watson’s Jon Garcia-directed music video for breezy tune “Feeling Hope,” the popsters (in puppet form, of course) start out their day on the beach with their […]
Cinderella Motel’s thrashy old-school squalor owes a huge debt to black-dressed songstresses of the past – fans of Siouxsie Sioux and Joan Jett, take note – with frontwoman Tammy Tomahawk juggling guitar and accordion and howling at ghosts wearing studded belts and leather collars. Or maybe they’re not ghosts at all. The quartet, working on […]
[They Left L.A. for the Other Coast, but We Still Listen, Part II:] In February, Long Beach-bred trio We Barbarians gave L.A. something of a going-away present the great single “Headspace.” Since they relocated to New York, David Quon, Derek Van Heule and Nathan Warkentin have finished up an EP with that name, their first […]