Long Beach trio Pageants celebrated the long-awaited release of their 7-inch “Musings of the Tide” on Friday at the Bootleg Bar on a night that also featured the anthemic roar of headliners the Reflections and the arty ruckus of local five-piece SISU. Photographer Carl Pocket was there to capture the proceedings.
Rebecca Coleman and her band mates in Pageants have taken things slowly since they first emerged in 2011. The 21-year-old singer-guitarist and founding member of Avi Buffalo, along with guitarist Devin O’Brien and drummer Dylan Wood, has cultivated her strummy, laid-back West Coast pop in live show after live show, Pageants’ calling card – Coleman’s […]
Incoming: Lady Gaga, Robert DeLong, Jessie Ware, Quicksand, Ferraby Lionheart, Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown, Muse, the Airborne Toxic Event, Dada, Bad Religion, Pentatonix, Wayne Kramer, Pageants, Wovenhand, El Ten Eleven, Ken Stringfellow, Ben Folds Five, Al Stewart, Smokey Robinson Above: Pentatonix, the Texas-bred a cappella group of Scott Hoying, Kirstie Maldonado, Mitch Grassi, Avi […]
Sunday things: ‣ The Satellite continues its week-long free show series. Tonight features cinematic music from headliner Seven Saturdays. Pageants and Ash Reiter also play. (You can also catch Ash Reiter earlier in the day at Lot 1 Cafe’s late brunch show.) That’s Ash Reiter’s video for “Heatwave” above. ‣ Part-Time Punks dedicates a night […]
Chilly weather didn’t stop show-goers from heading out on Monday night. And if there were any who second guessed their choice to leave their cozy homes, the double bill of Wild Belle and Deep Sea Diver made sure to turn up the heat at the sold-out show at the Echo. ||| Photos by Kelsey Heng […]
Random encounters of the festival kind from Saturday’s third night of Filter magazine’s Culture Collide: Highlight of the night Absurd and absurdly fun – that’s about the only way to describe Of Montreal’s hour-plus excursion into whimsy and fantasy at the Echoplex. There were plenty of costumed crazies accompanying Kevin Barnes and crew throughout, onstage […]
Voxhaul Broadcast has been added to the Echo Park Rising lineup to anchor the Echo stage, and Hands, Calvin Love, Oh Boy Les Mecs and the Dead Ships have been slotted to play the Echoplex as plans are finalized for the free, one-day neighborhood festival on Saturday. Fool’s Gold (previously announced) highlights a big lineup […]
Buzz Bands LA Stage at Taix to feature Soft Swells, Warships, the Lonely Wild, the Record Company, Pageants and more Remember Sunset Junction? Not the fenced-off, charge-you-an-arm-and-a-leg Sunset Junction, but the free, neighborhood-y festival of its early years? That’s what organizers have in mind for Echo Park Rising – a free, one-day celebration of local […]
‣ Almost three years after their debut EP of propulsive dream-pop came out, Magic Wands today release their first full-length, “Aloha Moon,” and it’s very good. The duo of Chris and Dexy Valentine celebrate with a headlining show at the Satellite, supported by Blue Jungle and the Sister Ruby Band. That’s Magic Wands’ video for […]
So as rich as 2011 proved to be for local music, 2012 promises even more. Following is Buzz Bands LA’s list of “Bands to Watch” for 2012 – 33 newbies who have not yet released a full-length album and are on our radar to do so in the coming year. Whom did I miss? Leave […]
