Photos: Chinatown Summer Nights, a super Saturday
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Figs Vision, the Black and the White, the Shelters, Smoke Season, Forebear, Mad Revival and Spooky Island performed on a huge Saturday night of music.
Lineup: Chinatown Summer Nights returns Aug. 22
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Chinatown Summer Nights returns Aug. 22, with Figs Vision, the Black and The White, the Shelters, Smoke Season, Forebear, Mad Revival and Spooky Island on the Live Music Stage.
Chinatown Summer Nights returns in July with Madi Diaz, Eastern Conference Champions, Afternoons, Francisco the Man, Black Apples and Wet & Reckless
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Indie-pop siren Madi Diaz will be joined by anthem-bearing sextet Afternoons and rock quartets Eastern Conference Champions and Francisco the Man at the July installment of Chinatown Summer Nights. The free, all-ages show near Chinatown’s Central Plaza, which kicks off a 6 p.m. on July 12, also features Black Apples and Wet & Reckless. All […]
KCRW Summer Nights serving up free concerts from Pasadena to downtown to Santa Monica
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KCRW’s stamp will be all over the Southern California live music again scene this summer. The fifth annual KCRW Summer Nights series – part of which was announced this morning – is highlighted by the return of live music to the Annenberg Space for Photography, “Made in L.A.” club nights at the Hammer Museum; and […]
Hot As Sun to kick off KCRW Summer Nights series
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If it’s summer in L.A., it’s time to start thinking music al fresco. KCRW today announced the beginnings of its KCRW Summer Nights series, which spans multiple outdoor venues and kicks off June 8 at One Colorado with the sultry disco of Hot As Sun [pictured]. Mr. Little Jeans will continue the series in Old […]
James Blake lets fans in the loop at cozy KCRW show
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By Julia Betley “I don’t want to be a star, but a stone on the shore” James Blake sang as he opened his performance at KCRW’s Berkeley Street Sessions with the title track of his sophomore release “Overgrown.” It didn’t take long at intimate showcase at Bob Clearmountain’s Apogee Studio in Santa Monica for Blake […]
Bloc Party debuts new songs at KCRW session
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Bloc Party’s evolution sounded a little bit like a revolution on Wednesday night – so much so that during an intermission interview at a show the U.K. quartet did for KCRW-FM, the station’s music director Jason Bentley asked the band whether their new tunes constituted their “metal phase.” “There are moments of musculature,” Kele Okereke said […]
Tonight in L.A.: El-P, the Heavy, Justin Townes Earle, the Watson Twins, Jason Bentley, Grant Lee Buffalo, Beat Club, Magic Mirror, Standing Hawthorn
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Here are your Thursday things: ‣ Indie hip-hop standout El-P visits Check Yo Ponytail at the Echoplex behind his first solo album in five years, “Cancer for Cure,” joined by Killer Mike and more. ‣ U.K. funk-soul outfit the Heavy, with its third album “The Glorious Dead” coming in August [here’s a sample], plays the […]
KCRW’s ‘Friends’ serve up diverse, tasty morsels
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The name of KCRW’s holiday benefit show posed the so-rhetorical-it’s-silly question “Are Friends Eclectic? Gee, waddya think? You’d be hard-pressed to find the fare at Saturday’s four-plus-hour concert in the same time zone, let alone on the same spot on your FM dial. While “Eclectic’s” genial host, KCRW music director Jason Bentley, repeatedly marveled about […]
Video: The Crystal Method, ‘Play for Real’
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Rock on, gamers. While we at Buzz Bands LA HQ won’t pretend to be conversant in Borderlands, we do like our Crystal Method, especially when Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland team up with U.K. indie-funk band the Heavy. “Play for Real,” featuring singer Kelvin Swaby and guitarist Dan Taylor from the Heavy (and some other […]
