Every once in a while, during recent shows by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, your postmodern cynicism kicks in, and you get the nagging notion that you’re witnessing the staging of a 1960s love-in, or a prelude to one. Then you see frontman Edward Sharpe look into his fans’ beaming faces, and so obvious […]
[We bid April adieu with fond birthday wishes for Willie Nelson …] Quite a night in the city, starting with the sold-out Pablove Foundation benefit at the Echoplex, which will be emceed by Shirley Manson and features Silversun Pickups and Eulogies. … Upstairs at the Echo, it’s a special occasion for two local bands – […]
[Happy birthday to Lee Majors – the Six Million Dollar Man turns 70 today, and if you think there’s no musical connection you’ve obvously never heard his 1981 tune “The Unknown Stuntman.”] In an earlier version of this post, I had Edward Sharpe playing at the Regent Theater. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. that residency […]
Quite a night at the Echo on Monday – it was packed to the gills for Fool’s Gold, then packed again for the midnight set of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. The late act then proceeded to play for an hour-plus and come back for an encore. Which you just don’t see out of […]
It’s been too long since I posted a podcast, so this is Step 1 in catching up. This fourth edition of the Buzzsicle features songs from 17 L.A. artists whose names I heard in the aftermath of last month’s South by Southwest Music Festival. In my Austin wanderings, I mostly avoided L.A. bands, figuring I […]
South by Southwest is over? Say it ain’t so. I was impressed, and I didn’t even make it into the food line at Rachael Ray’s party [above]. By the numbers 1,000: Number of times, give or take, I heard the word “amazing.” 100: Number of times during the week I wished I had a bicycle. […]
