Your slammin’ busy Friday: ‣ First Fridays at the Natural History Museum kicks off its 2012 series by welcoming Mariachi El Bronx, along El Haru Kuroi. ‣ No Age heads up a huge lineup at the Smell, which kicks off its weekend-long 14th anniversary celebration. s celebrates its 14th anniversary. ‣ Excellent up-and-coming folk-rock band […]
[It’s Buzz Bands LA staff writer Seraphina L’s turn to share a year-end list …] By Seraphina Lotkhamnga Choosing one’s favorite albums of the year is always a daunting task, and it’s even worse when you have to whittle your list down to 25. Here are my thoughts on 2011 albums (local and non-local), and […]
An abundance of excellent music came my way from the SoCal community in 2011. My favorite 20 albums follow, with some special mentions/recommendations beyond that. It was an especially rich year for folk-rock and singer-songwriter albums, not so much for hard rock. Most of the nouveau electro and experimental releases left me cold. I didn’t […]
Today: The second of four installments in the countdown of our favorite local albums of the year. [On Monday, Nos. 20 through 16.]
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 […]
The final tabulations aren’t in, but Hanni El Khatib’s sizzling slab of bluesy garage-rock “Will the Guns Come Out” will end up somewhere high on Buzz Bands LA’s list of top local albums of 2011. He may also win an award for one of the most interesting road trips of the summer – he was […]
Hey, retro rockers, Nick Waterhouse’s Wayback Machine works better than yours does. Waterhouse is a the Huntington Beach-reared, San Francisco-educated 25-year-old whose early songs make time stand still – or at least, that period of time in the late 1950s and early ’60s when soul and sweat and sweetness seemed to congeal on every […]
Top shows to get your week started right: ‣ With their first album in eight years “The Great Escape Artist” on the way Oct. 18, Jane’s Addiction does the first of two nights at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. That’s the band’s video for “End to the Lies,” above. ‣ Dum Dum Girls headline the […]
[It’s a little bit like our Austin showcase, all over again …] Monday night’s tunes: ‣ Hanni El Khatib (pictured at the Buzz Bands LA party in Austin in March) celebrates the release of his debut album “Will the Guns Comes Out” at the Echo, leading into the final performing of Kissing Cousins’ residency. ‣ […]
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 […]
