On Tuesday, we reported that Saturday’s 74th Annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival in Chinatown had added a Live Music Stage, featuring five local bands, to this year’s festivities. For those who plan on coming out to Chinatown’s Central Plaza to get their moon cake on, there has been a slight change in the set times. The […]
The 74th Annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival – a free, all-ages cultural event whose roots date back more than 3,000 years – has added a live music stage for this year’s festivities, which go off from 5 to 11 p.m. this Saturday in Chinatown. In addition to the fest’s traditional activities, five local bands will perform at […]
[Editor’s note: Re-posting this amazing video from a few weeks ago because we had inadvertently published an unfinished version:] Avant-folk ensemble Little Red Lung’s single “50 Fingers” is a dark, dramatic little number, with singer Zoe-Ruth Erwin’s vocals prancing through a labyrinth of horns, keyboard, guitar and percussion. The video for the song creates a […]
Thursday things: ‣ JD Samson & MEN visit the Echoplex behind this week’s release of their “Time” EP – the second of four EPs the band plans to release this year. L.A.’s Brother and Touché support. That the video for MEN’s “Make Him Pay,” above. ‣ Retro wunderkind Nick Waterhouse celebrates the release of his […]
The vivid orchestral brushstrokes on Little Red Lung’s self-titled EP (released this week) are like a watercolor in motion one moment, and an Edvard Munch come to life the next. At the center of the quartet’s serpentine arrangements – augmented by cello, violin, euphonium, trombone, vibes and other percussion – is singer-keyboardist Zoe-Ruth Erwin, an […]
We give you a couple lovely acoustic videos to go with your Thursday show list: ‣ Good Times for a Good Cause Dept.: Wires in the Walls, Telstar and Little Red Lung team up for a benefit show at the Mint presented by Rock Is a Girl’s Best Friend and Buzz Bands LA (who will […]
Three bands, one good cause: Wires in the Walls, Telstar and Little Red Lung will play a benefit show for PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Mint. The evening is presented by Rock Is a Girl’s Best Friend, along with Buzz Bands LA (who will select tunes before and between […]
So many good shows tonight – in the interest of self-promotion, we’ll start with our own: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday, our monthly songwriter night, brings Correatown, Imperial Mammoth, College Kids and Will Courtney to Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park for a night of acoustic or semi-acoustic sets. The music starts at 9:15. ‣ […]
A short but diverse schedule as we approach the holiday: ‣ Japan’s magnificent metallurgists Dir En Grey return to SoCal behind their new release “Dum Spiro Spero.” They bring their unique, pummeling rock the to the House of Blues. ‣ Lo-fi indie rockers the Growlers play the Observatory (fka the Galaxy Theatre) in Santa Ana, […]
