From Andy Clockwise’s show-stealing afternoon set (top photo) to Ghostland Observatory’s laser-guided dance party at night, the first day of Sunset Junction 2010 was a festive affair. Besides a strong bill on the local stage featuring the likes of Eastern Conference Champions, Everest, Chief and Dawes, Fishbone, Bad Brains and Big Daddy Kane delivered strong […]
[Sunset Junction, other Junction functions, shows by legends and a show by Legend, shows in massive amphitheatres and shows by people with egos the size of amphitheatres – what a weekend. When am I going to find time to celebrate Serj Tankian’s birthday?] Once through the weekend, real … slow … like: Friday highlights: ‣ […]
Top 4 ways to keep that summertime adrenaline pumping: ‣ Jets Overhead have jetted in from Canada – that’s their new video for “I Should Be Born,” above – and since I’ve advocated for them before, I’ll do it again. They play the Roxy on a KROQ Locals Only bill (hmm, KROQ now reaches all […]
Orange County-bred quintet Young the Giant soared onto the SoCal indie-rock landscape in 2008, back when they were called the Jakes. Their new, slightly obtuse moniker aside, the Giants are young – Sameer Gadhia, Jacob Tilley, Eric Cannata, Payam Doostzadeh and Francois Comtois are all 21 or younger – but their songs brim with grown-up […]
[Happy birthday, Louise Wener. With all these girl groups cooing at me so many years later, I really miss Sleeper.] Too much of a good thing this weekend – here are my picks: Friday ‣ Catch Pepper Rabbit while you can. They headline Spaceland supported by Candy Claws. ‣ Manchester quintet the Answering Machine do […]
[I swelter, therefore I am. … Oh, and happy birthday, Jeremy Enigk. Come back soon.] Top 5 reasons to be outdoors this weekend: ‣ The Swell Season, She & Him and the Bird and the Bee team up for a hand-holder of a concert at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night. ‣ MGMT gives you […]
[Happy birthday to Ben Kweller, who inches ever-so-closer to the Big Three-Oh today, which is hard to believe if you knew him back in the Radish days …] My top 3 reasons tonight to postpone obsessing over Game 7: ‣ Eastern Conference Champions, all fired up from scoring the song “A Million Miles an Hour” […]
The weekly Buzz Bands LA show on Indie1031.com this morning at 11 previews the artists playing this weekend’s Silverlake Jubilee [see next post if you’re in the dark about that]. After the jump, the playlist:
The Silverlake Jubilee arrives with a bang this weekend, the first-year music and arts festival bringing some 50 bands to a three-stage neighborhood fair featuring cutting-edge DJs, comedy, spoken word, film, art and fashion – not to mention three dozen or so food trucks to satiate attendees’ appetites. Buzz Bands LA has joined with Jubilee […]
Eastern Conference Champions have no record label, no manager, no publicist and no lawyer. But on Wednesday the woefully under-appreciated [well, not everywhere] Los Angeles trio landed one of the 15 songs on the soundtrack to “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” – putting them in the company of the likes of Muse, Metric, the Dead Weather, […]
