Tonight’s top 4 reasons to grab an umbrella and go: ‣ It’s the live debut of Middle Brother – the collaboration between John McCauley of Deer Tick, Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes [see our post last week] – at the Troubadour as part of the big benefit for Invisible Children. […]
Lewis Pesacov just keeps campaigning for Buzz Bands’ man of the year. The guy whose guitar keeps the engines running for Fool’s Gold [pictured] and Foreign Born is racking up quite a resumé. Outside of his day job writing music for TV commercials and his band-juggling, Pesacov has produced the forthcoming Best Coast album and […]
Fool’s Gold’s melting-pot mix of dance and world music has continued to win fans – the L.A. 11-piece collective earned plenty of shout-outs for their SXSW peformances. As they prepare to cross the Atlantic for a 17-date European/U.K. tour, the band has released the video for “Nadine,” off their lauded 2009 debut. It was filmed […]
[Catching up on some recent developments …] File this under interesting twists: the next album by the Bird and the Bee will be “Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates” (March 23 on Blue Note Records). No irony from the mouths of Greg Kurstin and Inara George here, says […]
I have only to glance at Stereogum’s post on the most anticipated albums of 2010 to be assured that next year will be better than 2009, when my most-visited album was the Stone Roses’ reissue. [Heartfelt thanks again to the person who gifted me that; you know who you are.] That said, ’09 had some […]
[Here’s where it starts to get busy, folks …] For my money, there is no better punk-rock outfit doing business the past few years than Florida’s Against Me!, who remain the only band to have slayed me at both Coachella and the Warped Tour. The quintet just finished a new album, “White Crosses,” with producer […]
Members of Foreign Born go on a little Catalina Island adventure in the Matthew Lessner-directed video for “Early Warnings.” The song, with Lewis Pesacov’s frolicsome guitar line, is the one track on Foreign Born’s fine sophomore album “Person to Person” that could have crossed over to the equally fine album by Fool’s Gold, the Afro-pop […]
Local Natives, the local quintet whose harmony-laden indie-pop put smiles on faces all over L.A. in 2009, are signing to Frenchkiss Records. Official announcement is expected later today. Frenchkiss, the NYC-based indie founded by Les Savy Fav’s Syd Butler, has released music from the likes of the Hold Steady, Passion Pit, the Dodos, the Antlers, […]
[Sorry this is a little late today – tech problems in Buzz Bands land …] Brooklyn three-piece the Antlers, riding a wave of critical love from Pitchfork (among others) for their album “Hospice,” are about to embark on a big tour supporting Minus the Bear (including a Tuesday date at the Glass House in Pomona). […]
Fool’s Gold, “Fool’s Gold” (IAMSOUND Records) – Be still my rockist heart. L.A.’s Fool’s Gold has made an album (out today) that bridges genres, crosses continents and even transcends language. The brainchild of singer-songwriter Luke Top and Foreign Born guitarist Lewis Pesacov, Fool’s Gold has blossomed into a collective that has come up with the […]
