Tonight in L.A.: Echo in the Canyon, Jamie xx, Blondfire
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Also: And So I Watch You From Afar, John Fogerty, Kid Cadaver, Kim & the Created, Boroughs, Their Wedding, Sad Robot, the Silver Lake Chorus
Popular With Us 2014: Buzz Bands LA’s favorite Los Angeles albums of the year
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Los Angeles, you were mighty good to us in 2014. Albums came from every nook and cranny, from the bedrooms of the DIYers to the scrappy studios that keep the engine running to the hallowed halls of the city’s pervasive Industry. We could have listened to a new local album per day and not run […]
Photos: Beck at the Orpheum
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Twelve albums and two-plus decades into his career, Beck knows how to make a concert a narrative rather than just an assemblage of songs. So it was on Saturday night at the Orpheum, where played for more than two hours – starting with more subdued material from his vast catalog before ratcheting up the energy about […]
Tonight in L.A.: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Beck, Meshell Ndegeocello, Caetano Veloso, Kimbra
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Here’s your Sunday fun: ‣ Day 2 of the Sunset Strip Music Festival with brings audacious Aussies Empire of the Sun to West Hollywood, along with Mayer Hawthorne, Destructo, Iration, Big Data, Tove Lo, Big Freedia, We Came As Romans, Nostalghia, Fenech-Soler, DJ Quik, Killer Mike, N.O.R.E., SPEAK, Babes, PPL MVR, Pterodactyl Jones, FMLYBND and […]
Tonight in L.A.: Tarfest, Sunset Strip Music Festival, Beck, Bedrocktoberfest, Make Music Go Bang! Festival, Katy Perry, José James, Chvrches, Better Than Ezra, Odesza, Martina McBride, Mickey Avalon
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Happy Saturday … ‣ Tarfest, the annual free, all-ages music and arts event on the Miracle Mile that kicks off at 1 p.m., brings Hunter Hunted, the Moth & the Flame, DWNTWN, Tapioca and the Flea and the Dead Ships to the La Brea Tar Pits Park. [Set times here.] ‣ Jane’s Addiction, performing their […]
The Week Ahead: Sept. 15-21
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Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Jane’s Addiction, Failure, Cold War Kids, Empire of the Sun, Mayer Hawthorne, Tarfest, Hunter Hunted, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Mosco Rosco, Fenech-Soler, Soft Swells, Rise Against, Andrew Belle, Daedelus, Karen O, Buzzbocks, Coldplay, Train, De Lux, Magic Mirror, Vulpeck, Augustines, Chuck Ragan, Cheap Trick, Diana Ross, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, […]
Tonight in L.A.: Jail Guitar Doors benefit (Jackson Browne, Ben Harper, more), the Art of Elysium’s Genesis (Beck, SOKO and more), Elvis Costello, the Rentals, Phantogram, DakhaBrakha, the Record Company, the Baseball Project, Atmosphere
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Here’s what a fantastic Friday sounds like: ‣ An all-star benefit concert, “Jail Guitar Doors” – former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer’s effort to bring music programs into corectional facilties – goes off at the Ford Ampthitheatre, featuring Jackson Browne, White Fence, Ben Harper, Tom Morello, Jill Sobule and more. ‣ The Art of Elysium’s Genesis benefit […]
Tonight in L.A.: KROQ Weenie Roast (Fitz & the Tantrums, the Neighbourhood, more), Sweet Baby Fest (Dam-Funk, Caught a Ghost, more), Bruno Mars/Pharrell Williams, Rodriguez, Black Flag, Goldroom, Seahaven, Le1f, more
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Another super Saturday: ‣ Your first festival choice: KROQ Weenie Roast returns to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with a lineup featuring Fall Out Boy, Fitz & the Tantrums, the Neighbourhood, Capital Cities, Foster the People [check out “Best Friend”], Kongos, Beck, Avicii, Phantogram, Bastille, Bleachers, the 1975 and American Authors. [That’s Phantogram’s video above for “Fall […]
Beck showcases his majestic ‘Morning Phase’ and teases forthcoming material at KCRW show
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Just before his band began their second set on Wednesday night, Beck looked around the crowd in producer Bob Clearmountain’s Apogee Studio in Santa Monica and remarked, “With the lighting and the stage, I’m having flashbacks to open mic nights. Apogee Studio is like a coveted and elusive treehouse for music nerds, and with a […]
Coachella 2014: A recap of all our recaps
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Going to Coachella on Weekend 2? Want to relive the first weekend? Buzz Bands LA covered 53 of the festival’s 184 performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday and published more than 170 photographs. After the jump, we provide quick links to everything:
