Heard on the street, jotted in my notebook: ‣ Word on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake is that L.A.-based Evan Voytas, whose fuzzy pop is equal parts synth, soul and space, will be releasing an EP in October on Dovecote Records, home to Hooray for Earth and Wise Blood, among others. Voytas recently returned from […]
[Happy birthday to Pete Yorn, 37 years old today. Here’s what’s up tonight …] Your midweek mix: ‣ It’s a homecoming of sorts for Richie James Follin, the O.C. native who fronts (fronted?) the Willowz for four albums and now lives on the other coast making doo wop-meets-Kinks music as Guards. Guards have more substance […]
Your solid Saturday touts: ‣ Power pop fanatics need not stay home tonight, because the Posies [pictured above] play 1993’s “Frosting On The Beater” tonight at the Viper Room. ‣ She never really just worked 9 to 5. Country’s legendary lady Dolly Parton plays a second night at Hollywood Bowl. ‣ Chillwavers Memory Tapes headlines […]
[Happy birthday to Ida Maria, who rocked our shoes off a couple weeks ago at the Roxy …] Your midweek menu: ‣ Army Navy’s second album “The Last Place” came out this week, and the L.A. band will join U.K. quartet A Silent Film for a show at the Bootleg Theater. ‣ Malian stars Tinariwen, […]
Where to go, who to see, what to hear: ‣ It’s a night to celebrate sonic shifts and new songs at the Satellite, where Correatown marks the release of its “Etch the Line” EP [which we previewed last month]. White Sea and Square on Square support, and your humble Buzz Bands LA blogger will be […]
Angela Correa says it’s just evolution. But for the songwriter and compelling voice behind the L.A. quartet Correatown, her new musical direction – which finds her winsome, Americana-oriented folk-pop suddenly elevated to the cumulus of dream-pop – represents education as much as anything. “This has the sound and textures and soundscape-y elements that I was […]
Saturday’s notable shows: ‣ G. Love headlines the House of Blues behind his new Avett Brothers-assisted album “Fixin’ to Die,” and the Belle Brigade opens. G. Love also does an acoustic matinee performance at the Grammy Museum. ‣ Danielson visits the Satellite behind the February release of their first album in five years, “Best of […]
[Wayne Coyne turns 50 today. Wonder where that party is.] Top 4 shows for those not expanding their horizons at Gary Lucas’ Captain Beefheart Symposium at the Echoplex: ‣ Stoner metal gods Fu Manchu blast off at the Satellite with a show featuring a performance of their album “In Search Of …” ‣ Plan B […]
The spare acoustic folk music of Les Shelleys comes courtesy of two very familiar voices in L.A.’s singer-songwriter circles: Tom Brosseau and Angela Correa (of Correatown). It’s the stuff of sepia-toned photographs and black-and-white movies; the pair met eight years ago and bonded over vintage stuff like Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. Their self-titled album for […]
Raymond Richards has been something of a two-headed beast the past few years, his burgeoning duties as an up-and-coming producer at his humble garage studio forcing his singer-songwriter side to the back burner. But now Richards (whose Red Rockets Glare Studio has birthed albums by Local Natives, the Broken West and Ferraby Lionheart, among others) […]
