[It’s Colin Meloy’s birthday, so we send best wishes to him as we dive headlong into a new week …] Three excellent residencies start in Silver Lake/Echo Park environs, all featuring artists whose albums I have touted in this space. Jonneine Zapata [album, tour diary], fresh off the road with Soulsavers, does Mondays this month […]
Rumors of Light FM’s demise were not exaggerated – Josiah Mazzaschi had fully intended this spring to move on from the moniker under which he made music dating back to his Chicago days and the 2004 debut, “This Is the Beginning of My Golden Age.” Now, after aligning with the MySpace Friends & Family Network […]
[Happy birthday, Roberta Flack …] Cat Power, with local purveyors of tropicalia Fool’s Gold opening, plays the Avalon. .. The Gutter Twins – that’s Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan – hold forth at the Troubadour. … The Parson Red Heads swoop into the Echo for their first show of 2009 – frontman Evan Way says […]
To mark the two-month anniversary of the new Buzz Bands, I’ve created a compilation CD from 18 of the songs this site has offered for download. Almost all of the tunes have been exclusive to this blog, and most of them are from SoCal artists. There’ll be more like this in the future [watch for […]
[File this under recent under-the-radar discoveries:] The angsty post-rock of the Aimless Never Miss was cultivated by guitarist Jonny Latimer over a three-year period, with multiple recording sessions and rotating band members and the occasional tug of commitments to other projects. But his Bay Area quintet’s debut album (released yesterday on the re-launched label Devil […]
