I’ll remember 2011 as a year with more good music than I had time to devote to it. Because my primary focus is music emerging from SoCal – and because there was so much of it this year – I found myself taking only passing interest in many hyped albums … and not finding a […]
In 2011, I saw more than 500 bands perform live over 265-plus days of show-going, and still I feel as if I missed a lot. Plenty of what I did see remains etched in my memory, though, from festival adventures big and small (SXSW, Coachella and FYF to the Silverlake Jubilee, the substitute Sunset Junction […]
[It’s Buzz Bands LA staff writer Seraphina L’s turn to share a year-end list …] By Seraphina Lotkhamnga Choosing one’s favorite albums of the year is always a daunting task, and it’s even worse when you have to whittle your list down to 25. Here are my thoughts on 2011 albums (local and non-local), and […]
Happy Wednesday … ‣ M83 and Anthony Gonzalez soar into the Music Box behind their new album “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.” Active Child opens the sold-out show. ‣ The Bangles visit the House of Blues behind “Sweetheart of the Sun,” their first album in eight years. ‣ Army Navy brings the bright guitar pop on […]
The music video for M83‘s lead single “Midnight City” has arrived just in time for the release of Anthony Gonzalez’s double-disc album “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” (out today via Mute), and we had a hunch that the dream theme shed a light that is more supernatural than ethereal. As a record that revolves around how […]
[The weekend is just around the corner. Prepare yourselves with some new remixes below…] M83, “Midnight City (Christian Strobe Remix)” – The new single from Anthony Gonzalez has been getting M83 fans in a tizzy with anticipation for the upcoming album, “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.” The original track boasts the French artist’s fine skills of […]
M83, “Midnight City” – Popgazer extraordinaire Anthony Gonzalez spent a lot of time in L.A. working on the follow-up to “Saturdays=Youth,” and the first taste of M83’s “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” only stokes the fires of anticipation for the new album. Oh my. “Like” M83 on Facebook and get a free download of the song. […]
Whatever shape her solo music ended up taking, Morgan Kibby was determined not to play to expectations. “I’m a woman who plays keyboards, and there’s the whole Tori Amos sensibility,” says Kibby, the singer-keyboardist who joined French popgazers M83 for their last album “Saturdays = Youth.” “I know I could have written the girl-at-a-piano record, […]
Morgan Kibby rocketed onto the pop radar as the keyboardist/singer for M83 who co-wrote four of the songs on the French band’s 2008 album “Saturdays = Youth.” [She also very kindly contributed the first tour diary for this very blog.] With M83 on a break from touring and Anthony Gonzalez working on new music, Kibby […]
[Happy birthday to Jason LaRocca of the local punk outfit the Briggs. Here’s where to rock out tonight:] Busy, busy night, from the big spaces to the big rooms and on down. That highly anticipated Nine Inch Nails / Jane’s Addiction tour hits the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, and also under the evening skies is the […]
