[It’s Karl Wallinger’s birthday today, and I miss me some World Party …] Top show featuring fortysomethings we love: ‣ Superchunk (new album “Majesty Shredding”) and the Vaselines (new album “Sex With an X” – that’s the video, above) play the Music Box, with Telekinesis opening. You couldn’t go wrong here either: ‣ Broken Social […]
Interpol sounded less like a band geeked out about the release of its fourth album and more like a band in the throes of a mid-career crisis on Monday night. At a semi-private show for KCRW-FM at Berkeley Street Studio, the New Yorkers performed two four-song sets that bookended an interview conducted by the radio […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Owen Pallett …] Tonight’s top 3 hangs: ‣ Funeral Party – the young East L.A. rockers who recently made NME’s list of the year’s top new bands – kick off a residency at the Bootleg Theater. They’re signed to RCA, which has pushed back the release of their debut […]
[It’ll be blog lite here on Buzz Bands today as I am on assignment at a festival. I’ll have some goodies on the weekend. Meanwhile, enjoy Interpol:] Interpol returns to indie label Matador for its fourth album (self-titled), which is due Sept. 14. It’s been three years since “Our Love to Admire,” and “Lights,” the […]
[Here’s our weekly Stolen Lyric:] ||| Source: Julian Plenti, “Only If You Run” ||| Live: Julian Plenti, the solo project of Interpol’s Paul Banks, performs Thursday at the El Rey Theatre.
Leave it to a guy from Interpol to operate under an alias. Julian Plenti is the solo project of singer Paul Banks, and his album “Julian Plenti Is … Skyscraper” is due Aug. 4 on Matador. Full of jagged guitars, rhythmic tension and otherwordly effects – and touches of strings and horns – the rather […]
The drummer has some songs, or at least some sketches for songs. They’d been gathering dust, some for 10 years, but they’re his. Over a dinner in New York, the drummer gets to meet one of his rock ‘n’ roll idols and screws up the courage to ask the guy if he’d have a listen. […]
