Five favorite things about Tuesday’s Night With Buzz Bands LA at the Satellite: 1) Seeing Army Navy nail the material from their forthcoming sophomore album “The Last Place.” 2) Watching A House for Lions deliver a great set as frontman Daniel Norman persevered through not one, but two broken guitar strings. 3) Feeling the energy […]
[Birthday greetings today to Light FM’s Josiah Mazzaschi. And here’s tonight’s menu:] Tonight’s entirely biased show recommendations, or Things to Ponder While Listening to Gang of Four on “Morning Becomes Eclectic” (11:15 a.m.): ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s night at the Satellite features Army Navy (pictured) – the L.A. quartet returning with an album’s worth of […]
The music of Army Navy is an exercise in precision: meticulously finding the right guitar tone or harmonics, layering melodies just so, fastidiously counterposing frontman Justin Kennedy’s winsome vocals against all the jangle. The L.A. quartet’s four-minute confections are a pop classicist’s delight – not to mention a guitar savant’s dream. So it’s no surprise […]
Soft Swells, whose new single we premiered on Wednesday, has been added to the bill for Buzz Bands LA’s show next Tuesday at the Satellite. The new project from singer-songwriter Tim Williams will play the late set, replacing Hot As Sun, who were forced to cancel because Jamie Jackson is recovering from a bout with […]
The follow-up to their critically lauded debut freshly recorded with producer Adam Lasus, Army Navy returns to headline “A Night With Buzz Bands LA” on Feb. 22 at the Satellite in Silver Lake. The quartet will be joined by three of L.A.’s brightest up-and-coming bands, A House for Lions [premiere], Hot As Sun [premiere] and […]
[One in a series on notable new music from SoCal artists …] Long Beach quartet Parade of Lights – first heard here back in April – has released its debut EP, full of gorgeously crafted anthems that float somewhere between the youthful, earnest pop of artists such as Jack’s Mannequin and the expansive, Anglophile-leaning romanticism […]
[Birthday greetings go out to Jeff Tweedy today. In L.A. tonight, I’m not sure many music fans will be staying at home …] You probably already know about all the big deals –Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Forum; the Dead Weather at the Wiltern;” Steely Dan’s all-request night at the Gibson Amphitheatre; Tom Jones […]
[Folks, today is 07/08/09, and maybe a numerologist could explain it to me, but I remember have a distinctly crappy 06/07/08 and 05/06/07. So I might not get out of bed today, even to wish Beck a happy 39th birthday.] The acclaimed Brooklyn avant-pop group Dirty Projectors hit town tonight behind their new release “Bitte […]
[News for short attention spans:] Two of L.A.’s biggest recent break-out bands, the Airborne Toxic Event and Iglu & Hartly, are teaming up to do a $30-per-ticket benefit June 17 at the Avalon Hollywood. The third annual Design for Humanity, the charitable arm of clothing company Billabong, will benefit Charity: Water, which funds water wells […]
[Happy birthday to John Frusciante, long may you shred …] Most L.A. music fans have seen Jessica Dobson – she’s the guitarist in Beck’s live band – but not many know her as Deep Sea Diver. Signed to Atlantic Records at age 20, Dobson is quite a performer in her own right. (OC Weekly had […]
