The Buzz Bands-hosted party certainly isn’t the only show in town tonight, but, well, for selfish reasons I will tout it first. It’s a night of great guitar rock at the Echoplex – doors open at 8:30, with the Broken Remotes playing at 9, Amusement Parks of Fire at 10, the Lassie Foundation [pictured last […]
[Happy birthday to Fabrizio Moretti of the Strokes, all of 29 years old today. His side project, Little Joy, will be in town later this week – Thursday at the Detroit Bar and Friday at the Troubadour. Now, on to tonight …] How difficult is it to support good local bands in L.A.? Damned hard […]
The La’s are making new music? At the risk of tainting, or at least de-mystifying, what I consider to be the finest pop song ever written, “There She Goes,” I say bring it on. The BBC reports that enigmatic frontman Lee Mavers has written a new album and joined up with Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell. […]
[Happy Cinco de Mayo, and here are a few musical party options;] Iglu & Hartly, the Los Angeles-via-Colorado quintet who hit it big in the U.K. with its party-minded amalgamation of rock, rap (lite) and cheesy synths, brings its dance show back to the U.S. in earnest, playing a KROQ-sponsored record release show at the […]
[A tip of the birthday cap to John Oates …] Behind the band’s new album “Hungry Bird” – completed last year after being shelved for a couple of years – Eef Barzelay brings the re-formed Clem Snide to Spaceland, with support from locals Le Switch, who have a new EP themselves. … Deep Sea Diver, […]
[Happy birthday to John Frusciante, long may you shred …] Most L.A. music fans have seen Jessica Dobson – she’s the guitarist in Beck’s live band – but not many know her as Deep Sea Diver. Signed to Atlantic Records at age 20, Dobson is quite a performer in her own right. (OC Weekly had […]
