Have a dose of comedy along with your morning coffee when watching this new clip from electro-funk duo Chromeo. Featuring Solange Knowles (who has been known to cover and collaborate with indie acts such as Dirty Projectors and of Montreal) on vocals and in a brief cameo, Dave 1 and P-Thugg’s video for “When the […]
Rock the Bells landed in new digs this year – the San Manuel Amphitheatre – and except for some punctuality problems with Mos Def and Talib Kweli, the blowout was viewed as a big success, highlighted by Nas (top photo, with AZ) performing his 1994 “Illmatic.” Check out the review by Passion of the Weiss’ […]
Here are Monday’s mighty touts: ‣ Bardot brings two unique female artists to L.A. as part of their It’s A School Night series. Although Rickie Lee Jones is a legend in her own right for writing songs that cover every bit of the music spectrum, U.K.’s young Mercury Prize-nominated and pop-dubstep queen Katy B may […]
The L.A. Buzz Bands show returns to KCSN (88.5 FM) when the clock strikes 12 tonight. I’ll have new music from Papa, Little Brutes, Tom Freund, Chop Love Carry Fire and John Gold, along with tunes from Useless Keys, the Airborne Toxic Event and Walking Sleep, among others. Maybe we’ll even have a little midnight […]
It’s a good day to get off to an early start: ‣ The Gourmet Music Carnival – part food fair, part flea market and part music festival – goes off at Los Angeles State Historic part from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Walking Sleep, Francisco the Man and Mad […]
The fate of next weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair will be decided on Monday morning at a meeting of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works. The meeting, which is open to the public (live audio is available here), is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Room 350 at City Hall. At issue are fees […]
Your ridiculously abundant Saturday touts on both ends of Sunset: ‣ East of Sunset, Duniven [that’s his video for “Stars Far Above” on top] plays the Satellite along with Monstro Flora who will be celebrating their record release. Gavin Turek and the Secret Language support. ‣ Sacramento’s Ganglians team up with San Deigo’s Cuckoo Chaos […]
Because we’re optimistic, we’re going to assume that the embattled Sunset Junction Street Fair is actually going to happen. And on today’s Buzz Bands LA show on Moheak Radio, we’ll preview the festival – and chat with Brian Canning and Claire McKeown of Shadow Shadow Shade (playing 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27 on the Edgecliffe […]
Nik Freitas, the singer-songwriter and sideman extraordinaire (he’s played with Conor Oberst and Broken Bells and on records by Miles Kurosky of Beulah, Jason Boesel and All Smiles, among others), added a healthy dose of keyboard shimmer to the warm folk-pop on his fifth full-length, “Saturday Night Underwater.” The album came out in June on […]
Sometimes paths in life just change no matter where you plant yourself, and composer and and singer-songwriter Keegan DeWitt can testify for unexpected outcomes. Originally from Portland, Ore., DeWitt moved to New York and set his sights on theater and film while studying under key figures such as Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but after making a […]