Stream: Buddy, ‘Black 2’
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Given his collaborative album with Kent Jamz and two new singles (especially “Black 2”), Compton rapper Buddy is keeping 2020 interesting.
Given his collaborative album with Kent Jamz and two new singles (especially “Black 2”), Compton rapper Buddy is keeping 2020 interesting.
Also on Tuesday: David Crosby, Jagged Baptist Club, Wingtips, Satica, Fan Fiction, D Savage, Phoenyx, Danny McGaw
Incoming: KAABOO Fest, Heart, Richard Marx, Elton John, Buddy, Torche, Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Mac DeMarco, Carrie Underwood, Allah Las, Xavier Rudd, Prophets of Rage, Brian Wilson, Explosions in the Sky, Nick Waterhouse, His Name Is Alive, John Mayer, Ex Hex, Lil Keed, Ty Segall, Quantic, CRX, Dancing Tongues, Jay Som, Gruff Rhys, Greg Laswell, Cake, Maren Morris, Adrian Belew, Millencolin, Morgxn, Café Tacvba, SUNN O))) and more
A mighty enticing Thursday night of shows: ‣ Forty-six years after the release of their masterful album “Odessey and Oracle, the Zombies (with just two original members, Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent, steering the ship) play the Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier. Mystic Braves open. ‣ Transcendent Canadian punks (and how often […]
Incoming: FYF Fest, Beatles’ 50th with Dave Stewart, John Legend, Reckless Kelly, Avid Dancer, High on Fire, the Four Seasons, Frankmusik, Myron & E, SOJA, Horse Thief, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Future Islands, Rick Springfield, Hawthorne Heights, Quilt, Little Daylight, Black Gatsby, SD3, Tanlines, Mikky Echo, Lake Street Dive, the Zombies, Fucked Up, Blood Orange, the […]
When Buddy refers to his music as “wimpycore,” we think he’s talking in the past tense. Maybe his long-ago EP of sparse singer-songwriter fare qualifies, or “Alterations & Repairs,” the 2007 release that saw Buddy become a band. But certainly not “Last Call for the Quiet Life,” the long-awaited, long-fretted-over follow-up. Conceived and recorded with […]
‣ Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band visit the Sports Arena behind the March release of the songwriter’s 17th studio album, “Wrecking Ball.” Also:
Another massive night of Coachella “sandwich” shows, and some other gems: ‣ Wild Flag, the all-star quartet featuring Carrie Brownstein [pictured] and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) along with Mary Timony (Helium) and Rebecca Cole (the Minders), was one of our Week 1 Coachella highlights. They join two other artists playing the two weekends in the desert, […]
Singer-songwriter Morgan Nagler got her project Whispertown off the ground oh-so-many years ago by rubbing elbows with a couple of other former child actors, Blake Sennett and Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley. And Friday night – on the occasion of her birthday as well as the release of Whispertown’s new EP “Parallel” – the bonds […]
Back in May, we tipped you that the Hotel Café would be curating a stage at this year’s Sunset Junction. The lineup was announced today, and it includes a stellar cast of artists who’ve regularly played the Cahuenga Boulevard room, including Cary Brothers, Butch Walker and the Black Widows, Jim Bianco, HoneyHoney, Buddy and Mayor […]