Having Neil Young take a shine to your band from the get-go must be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it’s Neil Young and holy crap he wants us to open for him. On the other (and I only intuit this), you’re writing your second or third or fourth album and you’re thinking WWND (What […]
[Three new tunes from locals we’ve recently written about…] Everest, “Raking Me Over the Coals”– Upon the preparation for their forthcoming album “Ownerless,” Everest has just announced fall tour dates with Neil Young and given out their latest single “Raking Me Over the Coals” as a free download. Inspired by a cold, overcast day in […]
Top picks on a monster Thursday night: ‣ In between dates opening for Coldplay, U.K. electro quartet Metronomy plays the El Rey Theatre, with Ben Browning (of Cut Copy) supporting. That’s Metronomy’s stylish video for “The Bay,” above. ‣ BRAD, the long-running project featuring Stone Gossard, Regan Hagar, Keith Lowe and Shawn Smith, headline the […]
Times are changing for L.A. rockers Everest, and to them it might feel like “Rapture.” The quintet, which burst on the scene in 2008 with “Ghost Notes” on Neil Young’s Vapor Records and followed it up in ’10 with “On Approach” on Warner, has parted ways with the major label for its third album. “Ownerless” […]
In 2011, I saw more than 500 bands perform live over 265-plus days of show-going, and still I feel as if I missed a lot. Plenty of what I did see remains etched in my memory, though, from festival adventures big and small (SXSW, Coachella and FYF to the Silverlake Jubilee, the substitute Sunset Junction […]
Join me at midnight tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, or streaming at KCSN.org) as my LA Buzz Bands Show begins a three-week celebration of my favorite local music of 2011. My “Fave 40” countdown will feature the local tunes I had in heaviest rotation this year, and there were plenty to choose from. Tonight’s show […]
Three years and more than 3,300 posts ago, I launched Buzz Bands LA as way to stay busy after my employers politely told me they no longer needed my services. I had no illusions that, in a blog world populated by younger, faster, tech-savvier talent, very many people would care. So color me flattered that […]
Top of your Tuesday: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s Three-Year Anniversary party goes off at the Echo, with Everest headlining and support from Hands and Death to Anders. More details in the next post. ‣ Tom Morello, d/b/a The Nightwatchman, hits the Troubadour behind his new album “World Wide Rebel Songs.” ‣ Atlanta quartet Gringo Star, […]
Not a simple Sunday: ‣ The Hollywood Bowl and its indie rocking summer series comes to an end with TV on the Radio headlining. The night’s chock-full lineup of artists also includes Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Warpaint and Smith Westerns. ‣ Folk singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow plays a second night at the Bootleg. Grab his […]
Buzz Bands LA is turning 3 years old, and we’re triangulating the celebration. We are privileged to announce that Everest, the Los Angeles quintet who are readying their third album of rich, distinctly American rock ’n’ roll, will head up a trio of rockers playing Buzz Bands LA’s Three-Year Anniversary on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at […]
