[So your humble blogger had planned to take this week off, but no … too much going on … even tonight … which, by the way, is Evan Way’s birthday, so here’s a shout-out to the head Parson Red Head up in Portland … ] Top local outing to warm you up for New Year’s […]
Dig this: New York City four-piece the Dig – not to be confused with old ’90s faves Dig – named their band in honor of the movie “Dig,” the Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols documentary. (I know, that’s a lot of Digs in one sentence.) The Dig’s sometimes-atmospheric, always-hooky indie-rock only has a little bit in […]
The Silverlake Jubilee arrives with a bang this weekend, the first-year music and arts festival bringing some 50 bands to a three-stage neighborhood fair featuring cutting-edge DJs, comedy, spoken word, film, art and fashion – not to mention three dozen or so food trucks to satiate attendees’ appetites. Buzz Bands LA has joined with Jubilee […]
Filmed in some parking lots, and locales other than parking lots, here’s Simon Cardoza’s video for Manhatan Murder Mystery’s “Parking Lot.” The song is an urgent post-punk burner off the band’s “Skull” EP. Thrash accordingly. ||| Live: The arrival of this video led me to the discovery of an event Sunday that was not on […]
There are people who know Jack Gibson as an aspiring filmmaker, as an untiring supporter, and even as a perspiring drunk. This week, with the release of “Shelters,” his third album as Tenlons Fort, Gibson has solidified his identity as an inspiring songwriter. Whether “Shelters” – a startlingly beautiful, strikingly intimate collection of 10 songs […]
[Birthday greetings go out to Rufus Wainwright today. Meanwhile, big doings all over SoCal tonight:] No Doubt’s return to the road has been triumphant, from all the reviews, and it finally hits the band’s native southern California tonight. Paramore is the main support band at the sold-out Gibson Amphitheatre, and although they don’t seem to […]
[Happy birthday to Yoko Ono, 76 years young. Not that she isn’t getting birthday greetings from all over …] Mystery Jets, the Syd Barrett-worshiping, 1980s-channeling quintet from London, are newly aligned with Rough Trade Records. Their “Twenty One” was No. 8 on NME’s top albums of 2008, though it was barely a blip on anybody’s […]
[Happy birthday to silky smooth soul singer Anthony Hamilton, the pride of Charlotte, N.C. …] Speaking of Charlotte, another one of that city’s native sons, Benji Hughes [pictured], is back in L.A., where he’s on a first-name basis with many fans of his sprawling, genre-hopping album “A Love Extreme.” (“Gonna go see Benji tomorrow?” somebody […]
