Incoming: Matt Costa, Dirty Projectors, Silverstein, Kris Allen, the Pharcyde, Emeli Sandé, Delta Rae, ZZ Ward, Kan Wakan, Gliss, M. Ward, Solange, OFF!, Trombone Shorty, the Little Ones, Nick Waterhouse, Chelsea Wolfe, the B-52’s, Dr. John, Ed Sheeran, Wayne Shorter, Ellie Goulding, Petra Haden, Big Freedia, Emmylou Harris, Deadmau5 Above: The video for Dirty Projectors’ […]
Incoming: Xavier Rudd, Ellie Goulding, Freelance Whales, First Aid Kit, Carrie Underwood, Bombay Bicycle Club, Neil Young, Lupe Fiasco, Don Felder, Stars, Los Campesinos!, the Whigs, Twin Shadow, Woods, ZZ Ward, Leon Russell, Paul Weller, Allen Stone, Frightened Rabbit, the Growlers, Maroon 5, Crocodiles, Crystal Castles, the Soft Pack, the Jealous Sound, Dan Deacon, Peaches, […]
Our cups overfloweth: ‣ His new album “A Wasteland Companion” en route in April, M. Ward plays at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. [That’s his new video for “The First time I Ran Away,” above.] ‣ Gotye, his album “Making Mirrors” out this week, plays the sold-out El Rey Theatre, joined by Kimbra, who’s featured on the […]
The three-day Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate park had more than its share of highlights: M. Ward came out with Conor Oberst and did a Monsters of Folk cover; Amy Millan of Stars came out with Broken Social Scene to do “Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old […]
A reunion between old pals can be great inspiration for new music, and that’s exactly what happened for Carlos Forster, former singer-guitarist of Bay Area-based For Stars, when he met up again with M. Ward. Old buddies from college, he and Ward reconnected in Portland after the demise of the band Forster helmed from 1998 […]
The first music from supergroup Monsters of Folk has emerged – the quartet is giving away a song from its forthcoming self-titled album (out Sept. 22 on Shangri-La Music) as a free download. The foursome, including Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and singer-songwriter M. Ward, began their collaboration […]
[Notebook entries, once sentence apiece …] Wolfmother [visit the site to sign up for the download of the new single “Back Round”] sure was great a couple Fridays ago in the Natural History Museum’s Mammals Hall (imagine that), but I was surprised that the set started and ran so late, since the museum’s First Fridays […]
I have not heard the entirety of Maria Taylor’s new album “LadyLuck,” but this video is so disarmingly charming I might smile all the way to iTunes. The taller half of Azure Ray mends broken hearts on “Cartoons and Forever Plans;” the song features a guest turn by Michael Stipe. Taylor will perform at the […]
[Happy birthday today to old f.o.b.b.* Linus of Hollywood, who appeared in the very first Buzz Bands column.] Maybe it’s because it’s early in the morning and I’m cranky, but some things just puzzle me. Like the energy spent on 98% of the stuff on YouTube. Take Johnny Bennett’s video for “Sister Pharmaceutical” [above], which, […]
