Incoming: Day N Night Festival, Berserktown, Radiohead, Adele, Alabama Shakes, BJ the Chicago Kid, Flume, Caveman, Bryan Ferry, GZA, Thee Oh Sees, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Lucy Dacus, Lyrics Born, Matisyahu, Rodrigo y Gabriela, King Sunny Ade, Ziggy Marley and more
The Cure, Florence & The Machine, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, Sufjan Stevens, M83, Grimes, Chet Faker, Jamie xx and more to play at the Gorge on May 27-30.
Performing in support of their new album “Sound & Color,” Brittany Howard and band had a huge crowd whooping and clapping along while she owned the stage.
Also: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Rise Against, Tim Hecker, the Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, Meiko, Everclear, Bell Gardens, Sister Nancy, Marriages, Warren G.
L.A. concerts: Echo Park Rising, Berserktown, Hot Chip, Jackson Browne, Jason Isbell, Of Monsters and Men, Alabama Shakes, Grace Potter, Rise Against, Buddy Guy, George Clinton, Cayucas, Sister Nancy and much more
Friday night fun: â–º Weekend 2 of Coachella 2015 kicks off, with AC/DC, Tame Impala, Interpol, Steely Dan [pictured], Alabama Shakes, Alesso, Ride, Flying Lotus and many more. [Set times at the end of this post.] Here are Buzz Bands LA’s mini-reviews of 20 sets from Weekend 1. â–º Veteran Japanese psych-rockers Acid Mothers Temple […]
Heading to Indio for Weekend 2 of Coachella? Buzz Bands LA covered 58 sets during the first weekend of the festival, and below are the links to all of them. We had three writers on the ground trying to cover as much as possible (and, yes, we still missed a lot). Our favorites? We picked […]
Who: Alabama Shakes at the Outdoor Theatre In 3 or Fewer Words: From fertile soil. Unforgettable Because: As the Athens, Ala., quintet took the stage, a rail-hanger shouted at Brittany Howard, “I love you, Mama!” It was more an acknowledgement of the 25-year-old singer-guitarist’s commanding presence, indeed a maternal one, than a dreamy-eyed come-on, and […]
â–º Coachella 2015 kicks off, with AC/DC, Tame Impala, Interpol, Steely Dan, Alabama Shakes, Alesso, Ride, Flying Lotus and many more. [Set times at the end of this post.] And, hey, the headliners have a new video for “Rock the Blues Away,” from AC/DC’s new album “Rock Or Bust.” â–º It’s Fleetwood Mac at the […]
Alabama Shakes, the garage-soul terrors who rocketed out of Athens, Ala., five years ago and released their acclaimed “Boy & Girls” in 2012, today announced that their sophomore album “Sound & Color” would be out April 21 on ATO Records. The new release is advertised as a mix of soul, psychedelia and garage-rock, and the […]
