Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Jane’s Addiction, Failure, Cold War Kids, Empire of the Sun, Mayer Hawthorne, Tarfest, Hunter Hunted, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Mosco Rosco, Fenech-Soler, Soft Swells, Rise Against, Andrew Belle, Daedelus, Karen O, Buzzbocks, Coldplay, Train, De Lux, Magic Mirror, Vulpeck, Augustines, Chuck Ragan, Cheap Trick, Diana Ross, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, […]
Sunset Strip icons Jane’s Addiction and Australian electro/metal showmen Empire of the Sun will co-headline the seventh annual Sunset Strip Music Festival – which moves to two days this year, Sept. 20 and 21, in West Hollywood. With original members Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins, Jane’s Addiction will mark the 25th anniversary of […]
Going to Coachella on Weekend 2? Want to relive the first weekend? Buzz Bands LA covered 53 of the festival’s 184 performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday and published more than 170 photographs. After the jump, we provide quick links to everything:
Who: Empire of the Sun in the Sahara Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Viva Las Vegas Memorable Because: Props to Coachella for its rockist Saturday night Main Stage, but the festival, saturated as it became this year by electronic music, would have been served just as well by a headlining tag-team of Empire of […]
Oh, it’s Halloween? ‣ Arcade Fire plays the Hollywood Palladium behind the new album “Reflektor.” ‣ Australian duo Empire of the Sun, joined by Alpine, bring their big electro shoe to the Shrine Auditorium. Empire of the Sun’s latest album “Ice on the Dune” came out in June, and that’s the video for “DNA,” above. […]
Incoming: Arcade Fire, HARD Day of the Dead, Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare, Ronnie Spector, Tori Kelly, Demi Lovato, Slayer, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Bonobo, Danny Elfman, Megadeth, CocoRosie, the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, Iron & Wine, the Cartel, Andy Clockwise, Geronimo Getty, the Neighbourhood, Gov’t Mule, Lewis Watson, Hiatus Kaiyote, Kirin J. Callinan, Falling in […]
‣ HARD Summer Festival continues over at the Los Angeles State Historic Park with Justice (DJ set), Empire of the Sun [that’s their video for “Alive” above], Flosstradamus, Azealia Banks, Crystal Castles, Bassnectar, Dillon Francis, Baauer, Claude Vonstroke, Busy P and many more. ‣ Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros headlines the Hollywood Bowl where […]
Incoming: System of a Down, Sunset Strip Music Festival, HARD Summer, Writer, Bad Rabbits, Sebadoh, Franz Ferdinand, We the Kings, Dr. John, Joan Jett, Xavier Rudd, Son Volt, Shye Ben-Tzur, El-P, the Decoders, Ours, Casey Veggies, the Sword, ZZ Top, Tony Bennett, the Presets, Kitten, the Icarus Line, Daughn Gibson, Blackalicious, José James, Ozomatli, Scott […]
From the massive theater provided by Sigur Ros and Empire of the Sun to the sweet sounds of Michael Kiwanuka and Devendra Banhart, the second day of this year’s Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre had plenty of highlights. Photographer Carl Pocket, who found time to check out the acoustic sets from Black Rebel […]
Soulful Sunday. ‣Holy psychedelic soul, Batman! Van Hunt will bring his musical alchemy to the Troubadour stage tonight and I bet a life will be changed. This is #winning. ‣Empire of the Sun (Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore) are at Club Nokia and round out what’s been a good week of Aussie bands in Los […]
