[Happy Monday. For all you Daft Punk fans, Jason Bentley will be debuting tracks from the “Tron: Legacy” soundtrack at 10 this morning on your friendly neighborhood public radio station …] Top 2 audio/visual spectacles this evening: ‣ Roger Waters performs “The Wall” live at Staples Center. ‣ Sonic experimentalists the Books, joined by Temporary […]
[Birthday wishes go out today to Karen O …] Top 3 shows/events for your divergent musical interests: ‣ New Zealand quintet the Naked and Famous (taken from a Tricky lyric and not the Presidents of the United States of America song) seem to have taken MGMT’s ball and run with it. Well, the part of […]
Top show that’s probably worth the road trip: ‣ Blonde Redhead (with Olof Arnalds opening) plays the Glass House in Pomona. The trio’s new album”Penny Sparkle” is more ambient than “23” (the Buzz Bands album of the year in ’07) – easy stuff in which to lose yourself, as the five songs they perform in […]
[My vacation is over and it’s back to business. Like wishing Sam Sparro a happy birthday…] Top rock stops if you’re not headed to Night 3 of Florence + the Machine: ‣ Busy boys, those Chasing Kings. They kicked off their Silverlake Lounge residency last week and allowed as how they’re holing up in the […]
[Bronson is lost in the desert somewhere this week. We’re picking up some slack, so these posts might look a little different than usual:] Top 3 shows tonight: ‣ Deerhunter (above, the video for Diplo and Lunice remix of “Helicopter”) at the Music Box ‣ Apples in Stereo and Fol Chen at the Echoplex ‣ […]
The 2010 edition of the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum ended in typically raucous fashion on Thursday night, with energetic sets from local indie-rockers Voxhaul Broadcast (who soldiered through a broken guitar string and a busted effects pedal) and Chasing Kings (who were accompanied by live painter Norton Wisdom) and […]
It’s the final night of this month’s Buzz Bands-curated Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum – Voxhaul Broadcast headlines this installment, supported by Chasing Kings, with a special acoustic performance from Ferraby Lionheart and DJ sets from KCRW’s Chuck P. Doors at 7. The first three weeks have been enormous fun. […]
The final installment of this month’s Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum just got a folkie’s touch – Ferraby Lionheart will give a special acoustic performance Thursday to kick off an evening featuring rock sets by Voxhaul Broadcast and Chasing Kings. Lionheart, born and now based in Nashville after spending substantial […]
It was a night of sweaty soul and furious funk on Thursday at the Hammer Museum, where the third installment of this month’s Also I Like to Rock series paired local sensations Fitz & the Tantrums with gritty U.K. outfit the Heavy, playing their last date on a U.S. tour. Both bands had spent time […]
[Excuses, excuses: Time constraints prevented me from continuing my semi-regular “Buzzsicle” podcasts last year, but tonight’s kickoff of the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum has spurred me back into action – well, that and recruiting somebody to help me compile/produce. Here goes:] The Buzzsicle, Vol. 7, celebrates this month’s Also […]
