[In response to the inevitable questions I am asked at shows – What have you heard? What are you listening to? What’s new? – today I embark on something called Random Dispatches … the contents of my notebook, spilt.] ‣ Lavender Diamond’s recent show at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts was a revelation, […]
[Can’t remember a busier weekend for good stuff. Really. So wish Stefani Joanne Angelina Germotta – that’s Lady Gaga to you – a happy birthday, and I’ll see you at a show:] Tonight: Metric, who played a surprise set Thursday night at a charity gig at the Roxy, headline the Palladium. Codeine Velvet Club and […]
I’ve said it before – there’s no propriety in reviewing your own show. But to my ears, Decembering With Buzz Bands LA on Wednesday night at the Echo was a big hit, from the soaring, uplifting melodies of Square on Square, to the gritty, Dylan-flavored rock of KAV, to the layered roar of the rejuvenated […]
Music doesn’t feel so much like a business to Evan Slamka these days, and the Los Angeles singer-songwriter likes it just fine. With his new quintet Square on Square, Slamka has emerged from three-plus years of personal reflection and creative regeneration that followed the dissolution of Majorie Fair, which released one excellent album (“Self Help […]
[Happy birthday to Nelly Furtado … Happy club-hopping to all my favorite people:] Gee, where shall I begin tonight’s show rundown? Shamelessly, I will note that tonight is the Decembering With Buzz Bands LA show at the Echo [click on flyer at right for info; RSVP list closes at 3:30], featuring Square on Square (9 […]
Kavin Sandhu’s music might be all volleys and daggers, booze and swagger, but take him out of his native England and station him in Los Angeles for a year, and he’s more than a little bit wonder-struck. “It really does inspire me on a day-to-day basis,” the singer-guitarist and architect of the rock band KAV […]
Three years ago, weary from touring and wan from the chasm separating their dreams and reality, Jim Evens and his bandmates in L.A. trio Helen Stellar decided to take a little break. They’d just had a song in the Cameron Crowe movie “Elizabethtown” and released “A Prayer to Myself,” a compilation of their first three […]
Dave Dupuis is a familiar figure to Eastside clubgoers, and not just for his head of hair, which seems to occupy the whole room. Dupuis, who plays guitar in Film School and was a sound man at Spaceland and for several bands (including Silversun Pickups), recently debuted his new band, the trio Nightmare Air. It […]
[Our last evening of music at the Echo gave me such a warm-and-fuzzy, I decided to invent a word for this next show: “Decembering”:] Buzz Bands LA invites you to a night of sweeping guitar rock on Dec. 2 at the Echo, featuring Helen Stellar, KAV, Square on Square and Nightmare Air. Tickets are $8 […]
