The Naked and Famous’ album title “Passive Me, Aggressive You” certainly applied Tuesday night the at the Music Box. The New Zealand popsters surveyed their candy-coated electro to a sold-out crowd of aggressively adoring fans who’ve found a place for the Kiwis’ confections alongside their MGMT and Passion Pit records. L.A.’s White Sea, the solo […]
Tuesday’s offerings: ‣ New Zealand quintet the Naked and Famous bring their “Young Blood” to the Music Box, where White Sea – the solo venture of Morgan Kibby of M83, who did this cool remix of the hit – opens. ‣ Mariachi El Bronx, the alter ego of punk-rockers the Bronx, release their second album […]
Join me on Moheak Radio at 3 p.m. Pacific time for a special installment of the Buzz Bands LA show. Members of Mariachi El Bronx will join me to talk about their new album – out next week – and their upcoming activities, which include an in-store at Amoeba on Tuesday, album-release shows on Tuesday […]
Mariachi .. really. When the Bronx – one of the most deliciously uncompromising hardcore punk bands to emerge in the last decade – first donned their charro suits and morphed into Mariachi El Bronx, it felt like they were kidding. They weren’t, embarking on a foray into south-of-the-border flavors that turned out to be both […]
By Gabriel Jones DeVotchKa is a restless band. Their omnivorous, chameleon-like sound, blending Balkan, Bolero, punk, Mariachi and folk music, has further evolved on their new album “100 Lovers,” and their show Saturday night at the Music Box saw them shifting effortlessly through styles as quickly as the band members changed instruments. ||| Photos by […]
[Thirty well-spent minutes on a rainy Sunday morning:] The Bronx are the most exciting (if not most honest and uncompromising) bands I’ve witnessed in eight years of writing about music around L.A. They also famously have a flip side, Mariachi El Bronx, and they’re playing Coachella this year. This documentary from Babelgum, filmed in London, […]
[Buzz Bands contributors Addy Danti, David McKay and Meriah Doty check in with the visiting bands on Saturday night at Filter’s Culture Collide:] Who: Bambi Kino In three or fewer words: The Hamburg Sound What’s the big deal?: Four indie-rockers form a band to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ first shows in Hamburg, […]
Inveigh: To protest or complain bitterly or vehemently. Yep, that’s my Bronx. You want to rail against some injustice, you want Matt Caughthran doing your talking for you. The Jamie-James Medina-directed video for “Inveigh” – off their third album, released last year – captures the rage in its eye-blinking glory. The Bronx have been spending […]
