Thursday’s menu: ‣ Irish rockers Two Door Cinema Club visit the Wiltern Theatre, with local quintet Grouplove opening. Above is Grouplove’s recent video for “Tongue Tied,” off its debut “Never Trust a Happy Song.” ‣ The Janks celebrate the release of their album “Hands of Time” with a show at the Bootleg Theater. American Tomahawk […]
Six months after a growth spurt that saw the band play a residency at the Echo, Long Beach wunderkinds Avi Buffalo return to the venue this week for a show that celebrates the quartet’s first proper release, the 7-inch of “What’s In It For” b/w “Jessica.” It’s their first effort for Sub Pop Records – […]
Avi Buffalo, the young Long Beach quartet that has captured the fancy of L.A.’s indie scene the past year, has finalized its long-rumored deal with Sub Pop Records. The band’s first official release, scheduled for December, will be a 7-inch single featuring the songs “What’s In It For?” and “Jessica,” with a full-length album to […]
Billy Corgan has been holed up in L.A. in recent months, writing new Smashing Pumpkins material, and at the Sky Saxon Tribute on Friday night at the Echoplex, he sprung one on the audience. Fronting a one-night-only band called Spirits in the Sky, which featured members of Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Electric Prunes (as […]
Three-quarters of Avi Buffalo (“or Avi Buffalo Music,” the barefooted 18-year-old frontman tells the crowd in a voice you’re not sure has hurdled puberty yet) is still in high school, but five minutes into the Long Beach band’s set you’ve forgotten that, at their age, proms and final exams ought to be bigger concerns than […]
