Join me at the stroke of midnight for the L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN (88.5 FM), streaming on KCSN.org. Included in my wee-hours foray into local music will be new tunes from Princeton, Pepper Rabbit, Fool’s Gold and the Sister Ruby Band, along with material from Andy Clockwise, Soft Pipes and Eastern Conference Champions. […]
‣ Ari Shine brings his new power-pop to the Sunday Night Jones series at the Satellite tonight. That’s his video for “Ship in a Bottle” above. [Make sure to grab “It’s A Go.”] Also, Daniel Ahearn and the Jones play in addition to Americana-folk collective Eagle Rock Gospel Singers who round out the bill for […]
The summer concert fun is never over until you’ve wiped the butter from your chin. Which is to say that the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is approaching – the three day event is Sept. 16, 17 and 18, and the lineup, again curated by ex-Indie 103.1 music director Mark Sovel, offers some of […]
Saturday’s spread: ‣ HARD Summer goes off at L.A. State Historic Park downtown, featuring dubstep/house music sensation Skrillex, along with Chromeo, Odd Future, Duck Sauce, Boys Noize, Ratatat, the Juan Maclean, James Murphy & Pat Mahoney, Digitalism and Gaslamp Killer. That’s Skrillex’s video for “Rock n Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain),” above. ‣ […]
Don’t know about you, but this week has wrung me out. I will try to close it out in fine fashion this afternoon at 3 on Moheak Radio with this week’s edition of the Buzz Bands LA show. On the menu: A helping of mostly local music, a preview of Saturday’s 2nd New L.A. Folk […]
As one-half of the Morr Music duo Electric President, Ben Cooper traded in the kind of electro-pop melancholy that made the spines of Postal Service fans tingle. But his diet is more organic when he works alone as Radical Face, whose rapturous folk music is as stirring as it is conceptual. His 2007 album “Ghost” […]
[It’s been a scorching hot week in Los Angeles. Take a listen to these new summer jams to help cool things down.] Flight Facilities, “Foreign Language feat. Jess” – Sydney, Austalia-based DJ/producer duo Flight Facilities first took everyone by surprise when they unleashed “Crave You feat. Giselle” back in 2010. Not only did the pop […]
Funeral Party’s “New York City Moves to the Sound of LA” roared back in the days of the dance-punks’ “Bootleg” EP, and three years later on the East L.A. band’s major-label debut “Golden Age of Knowhere,” it’s no less of a scorcher. In spirit, anyway, it reminds me of the 1977 song by the Randoms, […]
Your Friday fodder: ‣ Magnolia Memoir, the L.A. jazz-pop quintet that conjures up the heyday of Billie Holiday, headlines the Troubadour. That’s the band’s Margaret Cho-directed video for “Broken Cup,” above. ‣ Summer Darling, working on material for a follow-up to last summer’s well-received debut, plays the Satellite, supported by Polls and Future Ghost. ‣ […]
Sunset Junction is barely more than three weeks away? Time to plan. Here’s how to get tickets, and after the jump, the complete set times (with one “special guest” still to be announced):