2015: Buzz Bands LA’s Favorite L.A. Albums of the Year
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Buzz Bands LA’s year-end list of Los Angeles albums is a solo project this year. So enjoy the scribblings of your friendly neighborhood rock-centric uncle.
Mini Mansions get celestial amid some other star sightings
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Sparks and Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys guest during the L.A. trio’s sold-out show Wednesday at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Tonight in L.A.: Passion Pit, Mini Mansions, Warren Haynes, King Khan
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Also on Wednesday: Wand, Dignitary, White Sea, the Entrance Band, Scott Weiland, Wailing Souls, Howler, Knuckle Puck, Dead Sara, Smoke Season
This Week’s Shows: Oct. 26-Nov. 1
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Including: HARD Day of the Dead, Madonna, Failure, MS MR, Mini Mansions, Passion Pit, the Neighbourhood, Walk the Moon, FIDLAR and more.
Video: Mini Mansions, ‘Double Visions’
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The world’s coming undone; please make sure you record it all on your digital devices. After, of course, you listen to the L.A. trio’s album “The Great Pretenders.”
Desert Daze 2015: Wild, dusty and sonically eclectic, the festival beats the heat for another year
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Fostering an eclectic community of musicians, artists, fans, vendors and assorted weirdos, Desert Daze 2015 proved to be the definitive DIY festival on the circuit. ||| Photos by Zane Roessell (another gallery below) Eschewing the increasing corporate sponsorship trend among other festivals, the festival — which went off Saturday at Sunset Ranch Oasis in Mecca — provided […]
SXSW 2015: Kicking and gouging at Burgermania; Sun Club on a cloudy Saturday; and practicing the pronunciation of Makthaverskan
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Burgermania (Twin Peaks, the Meatbodies, the Parrots and more), Sun Club, Hinds, Makthaverskan, Mini Mansion, Of Verona In a span of about seven years, Burger Records has rocketed from a niche business releasing cassette tapes to a full-blown movement, known for its DIY ethos and its artists’ back-to-basics punk, pop and psych-rock. The label was […]
SXSW 2015: The weather report, and a bunch of Los Angeles artists you shouldn’t miss this week
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The South by Southwest Music Festival kicks off today, and already things are getting weird. If people are not talking about Ava on Tinder, they’re talking about the dude who attacked Run the Jewels on stage Monday at the Spotify House. Oh, and the weather. It’s not going to be pretty. Around 200 L.A. artists […]
Mini Mansions give sold-out Troubadour 49 minutes of invention (plus 1 minute of Alex Turner)
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Two takeaways from Mini Mansions‘ too-brief headlining show on Wednesday night at the Troubadour: 1) It’s a disservice to pigeonhole the L.A. trio as a “psych-pop” band. 2) People really love Alex Turner. ||| Photos by David Benjamin The L.A.-based trio of Zach Dawes, Tyler Parkford and Michael Shuman unleashed an audacious display of their […]
Video: Mini Mansions, ‘Any Emotions’ (ftr. Brian Wilson)
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Mini Mansions’ latest single “Any Emotions” articulates a typical guy lament—”I can’t understand / any emotions”—but actor Colin Hanks displays the full range in director Mike Harris’ one-take video for the song. The single features background vocals from the legendary Brian Wilson, for whom Mini Mansions’ bassist Zach Dawes did session work and possesses a […]
