[Fourth of five installments as we look at 25 L.A. bands headed to SXSW:] MEIKO If you like: Waitresses made good, Southern charm, songs in TV shows. What’s up with her: Seems like forever ago (it was 2007) when the everybody’s favorite Hotel Cafe server self-released her debut album, it was scooped up by a […]
Singer-songwriter Meiko may have been reared in the rural South, but in many ways she got her education at the Hotel Cafe, where she worked as a server. As a fellow veteran of the food service industry, then, Buzz Bands LA submits to you this necessary song, “You Gotta F*ckin’ Tip.” Meiko, by the way, […]
[Once around the weekend while wishing a very happy 70th birthday today to Smokey Robinson:] Tonight: Fitz & the Tantrums have been busy working on their full-length debut, but last week the soul-slinging sextet played a superbly sweaty set at Club Underground at the Echo. They reprise that tonight, with O.C. dance-rockers Pop Noir adding […]
[Happy birthday to Suzi Quatro – maybe I will bust out the leather jacket in her honor tonight …] Not quite as frantic a schedule in the city tonight – unless you’re a fan of Pennywise (sold out at Club Nokia) or 2 Live Crew (playing the Key Club). … Pilar Diaz ends a rockin’ […]
[Birthday candles Sunday for both Ry Cooder and Sly Stone on what will be a very busy weekend …] Tonight: Van Nuys-based imprint Hopeless/Sub City Records has been doing good things for years with its charity outreach, and its eight annual Take Action Tour, with DoSomething.org as this year’s beneficiary (the group will get three […]
[Happy birthday to Ian Brown of the Stone Roses … when’s that next show, dude?] Tonight: Thurston Moore is playing the Smell, and here’s hoping the regulars get in. … Big rawk shows all over: At the three-day tattoo to-do Musink at the O.C. Fairgrounds, the headliners the next three days are Rev. Horton Heat, […]
[A heaping helping of birthday wishes goes out to Martha Davis …] Very quickly and briefly today, because my plate overfloweth: The Entrance Band is your best bet for a great rock show tonight — Indian Jewelry and the Growlers join them at the Troubadour. … Meiko holds forth at the Hotel Cafe, where there’s […]
