Incoming: U2, Spoon, The Moth & the Flame, Freedom Fry, Cillie Barnes, Golden Coast, Refused, Kopecky, Two Sheds, Gold Star, Erick Macek, Aaron Watson, Dignitary, Neutral Milk Hotel, Knox Hamilton, Spirit Club, Bones Muhroni, Will Butler, Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler, Tori Kelly, King Tuff, L7, The Do, Flux Pavilion, Big Search, Little Red Lung, Josh […]
Wednesday’s fun things: ‣ Merrill Garbus, aka Tune-Yards, headlines the Wiltern behind her new album “Nikki Nack,” and Cibo Matto opens. ‣ The Ataris [pictured] are back, with their “classic” lineup, and bring their reunion tour – on which they are playing their 2003’s album “So Long, Astroia” from front to back – to the […]
Incoming: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Dave Stewart & Friends, Madi Diaz, Sego, Opeth, Augustana, Eric Hutchinson, Kan Wakan, Dear Boy, Eastern Conference Champions, JMSN, James Blake, Andrew Bird, Tune-Yards, the Ataris, Ryn Weaver, Big Search, FMLYBND, Kingdoms, Howie Day, Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Allah-Las, the Icarus Line, Black Belt Karate, Pepper, Gaby Moreno, De Lux, […]
Some may recognize Matthew “Cornbread” Compton as one-half of Electric Guest. Some may know him as the drummer from Engine Down while others may know his work as a film composer. Whatever his name may be attached to, Compton has a great resumé so far. His latest project goes by the moniker Realities, a venture […]
Hello, Echo Park Rising, we had a feeling it’d be like this: The Icarus Line closed out the proceedings Saturday on the Buzz Bands LA / White Iris Records stage inside Taix restaurant with a chandelier-rattling performance of songs from their new album “Slave Vows.” They were preceded by an eight-pack of stellar performances from […]
Thought we were going to end our first night of Echo Park Rising on a nice note? Think again. Buzz Bands LA is happy to announce the Icarus Line as the latest addition to the Taix Champagne Room stage co-presented by White Iris Records. As our closing act for Saturday night, Joe Cardamone and crew will […]
Echo Parking Rising, the free, two-day neighborhood festival is happening on Saturday, Aug. 17 and Sunday, Aug. 18, and Buzz Bands LA is once again privileged to be curating one stage during the festival, in the Champagne Room at Taix Lounge. This year, we team up with White Iris Records to present 16 local bands […]
Your Thursday possibilities: ‣Â M. Ward gives a concert at the Orpheum Theatre – a makeup date for the October show he was forced to postpone because of illness. Karen Elson and Soul-Junk support. That’s Ward’s video for “The First Time I Ran Away,” above; the song is off his seventh solo albu,, “A Wasteland Companion,” […]
As we found when he fronted the sorely missed quartet Foreign Born, Matt Popieluch has one of those voices that belongs in the jetstream. Or somewhere in the clouds, which is where you’ll find much of the solo material he makes as Big Search. The solo album from 2010, “Lay of the Land,” found Big […]
[With Fool’s Gold’s show last week still fresh in my mind, it seemed appropos to share this:] It’s unlikely (not to mention unfortunate) that we will ever hear from Foreign Born again. With Lewis Pesacov and Garrett Ray having a good time in Fool’s Gold, Matt Popieluch making sweet music as Big Search and Ariel […]
