Hot As Sun signs with Last Gang Records (and more tidbits from the label universe)
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With all these obituaries having been written for the music industry, how come so many artists on the Buzz Bands LA radar keep getting signed?
Tonight in L.A.: Nick Waterhouse, Allen Stone, Priscilla Ahn, Lord Huron, Peter Case, Warpaint, Hammell on Trial, Girl in a Coma, Saint Motel
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Fantastic Friday things: ‣ Old-school R&B adventurer Nick Waterhouse, at work on a debut album coming out in the spring, brings his edgy, vintage sounds to the Bootleg Theater. [Refresher: See the video for “I Can Only Give You Everything.”] The Allah Las and Anna Egge support. ‣ At the Echo, it’s soul phenom Allen […]
Tonight in L.A.: Rage Against the Machine/Muse, Lord Huron, Yuck, Metronomy, Thomas Dybdahl
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[Happy Saturday, and happy birthday Kate Bush. The Yuck video for “Shook Down,” below, is NSFW, so you’ve been warned, but it’s so well done it should be shared …] Your Saturday fare: ‣ L.A. Rising roars away a the L.A. Coliseum with a lineup of Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Rise Against, Ms. Lauryn […]
SXSW: 25 L.A. bands to see in Austin (Nos. 11-15)
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[Third of a 5-part series previewing Los Angeles acts headed to Austin to play SXSW:] HANDS If you like: Tough-to-Google band names, nifty use of samples, drama. What’s up with them: It’s no accident Hands have scored some prime gigs opening for big acts – the latest being Saturday night with DeVotchKa. Their sweeping,
Abe Vigoda, Lord Huron and Gamble House drop by the Singing Cowboy’s place for an indie rock shootout
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The most startling revelation about Thursday night’s show at the Autry Museum was how apparently few of the hip kids know where the Autry Museum is. For the record, the house that “The Singing Cowboy” built is right across the parking lot from the L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park. And although none of the bands […]
News bits: Little Dragon to kick off First Fridays; LACMA show (not); Blur, Pulp back?
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‣ Rockin’ with the fossils is one of our favorite L.A. rituals – at least the way that it’s done at the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays series. The festivities, which included honest-to-goodness intellectual activities followed by music (two live bands in the Diorama Hall, two DJs in the African Mammal Hall), kick off Jan. […]
Tonight in L.A.: John Grant, the Chapin Sisters, Lord Huron, Funeral Party, Busdriver, Badly Drawn Boy
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Top 4 reasons to procrastinate wrapping holiday gifts tonight: ‣ John Grant, whose album “Queen of Denmark” got the nod as the top release of the year by Mojo magazine, is joined by the Chapin Sisters and J. Tillman for a 7 p.m. show at the Autry Museum. That’s Grant’s video for “Chicken Bones,” above. […]
Tonight in L.A.: The 88, Eels, Remy Zero, more
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[Raising a glass today to birthday guy Bob Mould …] Top 4 shows tonight if you’re not an Alice in Chains fan: ‣ L.A. quartet the 88 celebrates the release of its new, self-titled album at the Troubadour, and there’s plenty to celebrate on this one – Keith Slettedahl, Adam Merrin, Todd O’Keefe and Anthony […]
Ears Wide Open: Lord Huron
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It’s hard to believe, given the tropical haze that permeates the early material from L.A.’s Lord Huron, that Ben Schneider wrote the first batch of his songs last spring on a getaway to shores of Lake Huron in his native Michigan. Lord Huron’s debut EP “Into the Sun” is meticulously layered pop excursion, shrouded in […]
Download: Futurebirds, ‘Johnny Utah’
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Part jingle-jangle, part old-fashioned Southern rock, Futurebirds have been collecting praise all over the place for their debut, “Hampton’s Lullaby” (out now on Autumn Tone). Full of pedal-steel swerves and comforting harmonies, the album delivers dreamy melodies that come closer with every listen. Four of the six members are multi-instrumentalists as well as vocalists within […]
