My Bloody Valentine, MGMT, Beach House, Yo La Tengo, Kurt Vile, Guards ||| Photos by Carl Pocket After the jump, more photos and capsule reviews:
When I last caught up with Richie Follin, he was still playing in Cults (his sister Madeline is a member) while slowly working on his new project Guards. The Orange County native, now ensconced on the other coast, engaged in some those-were-the-days niceties about his old band the Willowz (last spotted in 2009) and looked […]
[The South by Southwest Music Festival, now 2,500-plus bands strong and spanning five-plus days, keeps growing and growing – music events started on Tuesday this year. Buzz Bands LA will be covering with “daily diaries.” Here’s an abbreviated one from what we saw after arriving, already sleep-deprived, in Austin:] @KRBronson on Tuesday at SXSW: Richie […]
[Happy November. And happy birthday to Eulogies’ Peter Walker …] Tuesday’s touts: ‣ Shonen Knife have been fun for a long time, and on many continents. The Japanese pop-punk standouts are celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band, and they visit the Echoplex on the heels of their latest release “Osaka Ramones,” a tribute to […]
Top of the Thursday to you: ‣ The 2011 edition of Also I Like to Rock at the Hammer Museum closes with a bang tonight, with sets from the Henry Clay People and Lady Danville. The Henry Clays are working on material for their next album after this spring’s very strong “This Is a Desert” […]
[Happy birthday to Pete Yorn, 37 years old today. Here’s what’s up tonight …] Your midweek mix: ‣ It’s a homecoming of sorts for Richie James Follin, the O.C. native who fronts (fronted?) the Willowz for four albums and now lives on the other coast making doo wop-meets-Kinks music as Guards. Guards have more substance […]
[Why, hello, 2011. Nice to make your acquaintance. Birthday greetings go out today to the incomparable Van Dyke Parks …] Top shows tonight while waiting breathlessly for Best Coast’s late-night television debut (“Jimmy Fallon,” NBC): ‣ Buzzing indie-pop quintet Grouplove [pictured] kicks off a residency at the Bootleg Theater, supported by Guards, the latest project […]
When I talked to Matt Vasquez earlier this year for a story about Delta Spirit, he was pretty aw-shucks about the side project he had in the works with Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes and John McCauley of Deer Tick. “We’re thinking about calling ourselves the Traveling Bill Murrays,” he said at the time. “I’m not […]
Richie James Follin is a hard guy to follow. He rocketed out of Anaheim about seven years ago fronting the Willowz, who’ve made four pretty good albums and probably would be a booming concern had not the last two come out on Dim Mak Records. He made a slightly unwieldy but still worthy solo album […]
