[The Buzz Bands LA crew will be in Indio for the first weekend of the doubleheader in the desert, scribbling notes and taking photographs between predictable attacks of nostalgia, next-big-thing giddiness and dehydration. Coachella 2012 offers a mind-boggling array of current and past favorites to suit just about any palette – no whining about the […]
Didn’t score a ticket to Coachella? Plenty of the big names playing the festival are scheduling other southern California shows, including Pulp, Bon Iver, M83 (pictured), James, Kasabian, Miike Snow, Band of Skulls and Wild Flag. Downtown Lobby has a roundup, with ticket info, right here. Photo by Laurie Scavo
The nominees for the U.K.’s Mercury Music Prize were announced this week, and if about half the shortlisted artists aren’t already familiar to Los Angeles audiences, more will be soon. In fact, the latest (and greatest, if you believe NME’s breathless accounts) synth-pop sensation, La Roux, play to a sold-out Troubadour tonight, with four other […]
