If you thought it got dark on Chelsea Wolfe’s 2013 album “Pain Is Beauty,” wait until you listen while she peeks into the “Abyss.” That’s the title of the goth-metal sorceress’s new album, due Aug. 7 via Sargent House, and it’s a riveting, if unsettling, collection of soundscapes that see-saw from fragile beauty to brawny […]
Desert Daze — that other festival in the Coachella Valley — returns for a fourth year on May 2, with a lineup headed up by Warpaint, RJD2, Failure, Dan Deacon, Chelsea Wolfe and the Budos Band. Minus the Bear will perform 2004’s “They Make Beer Commercials Like This,” and other notable names among the 40 or so […]
Incoming: Chinatown Summer Nights, Low End Theory Festival, Klingande, the Darling Buds, Dirty Loops, Jack White, Patrick Park, Gibralter, Jolie Holland, Rocky Votolato, James Bay, Them Howling Bones, Joseph Arthur, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Natural Remedy, T-Pain, Chicano Batman, EELS, Chelsea Wolfe, Kate Brown, King Buzzo, Luciano and Judah Eskender Tfar & the Heartical […]
Saturday stuff: ‣ Chelsea Wolfe plays UCLA’s Royce Hall behind her latest release “Pain Is Beauty, with Anna Calvi opening. ‣ Montreal space-rockers the Besnard Lakes, their fourth album “Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO” having been nominated for a Polaris Music Prize, visit the Bootleg Theater, with Elephant Stone and Exploding Flowers supporting. ‣ Singer-songwriter […]
Did you miss anything at FYF Fest? Did you miss FYF Fest altogether? Buzz Bands LA reviewed 37 of the 57 acts and published more than 150 photos from the weekend’s 10th annual FYF, which announced ticket sales of 30,000 for the dusty, bustling proceedings at L.A. State Historic Park. Here are quick links to […]
The Melvins, Baroness, Touché Amoré, Chelsea Wolfe, Mac DeMarco, Jonathan Richman ||| Photos by Carl Pocket After the jump, more photos and capsule reviews:
Chelsea Wolfe arrived to the L.A. music scene equipped with a gothic sheen that would ease listeners into her morose reality. Her pop noir initially seemed a Stevie Nicks prototype but as she followed up her 2010 debut “The Grime and the Glow” with 2011’s howling “Apokalypsis” and then last year’s “Unknown Rooms: A Collection […]
The upstart Desert Daze festival, offering a Mojave-perfect lineup headed up by Tinariwen, Warpaint, Fool’s Gold, Chelsea Wolfe and the Entrance Band, has announced set times for Saturday’s event. The festival, mounted by the same folks behind the psych-rock-friendly Moon Block Party events, is being held at the 160-acre Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca, about […]
Friday fun: ‣ The Little Ones celebrate their new album “The Dawn Sang Along,” their first release since 2008, with a show at the Echo, with the Lonely Wild and Saint Sea Hat supporting. ‣ Trombone Shorty brings the rip-raoring sound of New Orleans to the El Rey Theatre, with Orleans Avenue and the Stone […]
Coachella, you’ve got company. Desert Daze, a by-the-bootstraps festival that debuted over 11 days last year in Desert Hot Springs, today announced a hallucination-inducing lineup headed up by Saharan rockers Tinariwen and L.A.’s Warpaint. The one-day event on Saturday, April 20 – opposite the second day of Coachella’s second weekend – also features Chelsea Wolfe, […]
