Coachella 2012: Radiohead, for better or worse
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Who: Radiohead on the main stage In 3 or Fewer Words: No Floyd cover.
Coachella 2012: A splendid, sunny Saturday
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Is waiting really the hardest part? The sense of anticipation for evening sets from Radiohead, the Shins, Feist and Bon Iver seemed palpable Saturday at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, but the huge crowd were offered more than just time-killers leading up to those critical darlings. Tucked away in the tents were the […]
Coachella 2012: Six acts that are giving us desert fever (and a bunch more you won’t want to miss)
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[The Buzz Bands LA crew will be in Indio for the first weekend of the doubleheader in the desert, scribbling notes and taking photographs between predictable attacks of nostalgia, next-big-thing giddiness and dehydration. Coachella 2012 offers a mind-boggling array of current and past favorites to suit just about any palette – no whining about the […]
Ears Wide Open: Robert DeLong
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Robert DeLong seems like one of those kids beamed here from a future world where all threads of music have been stitched together into some kind of vibrant cloth. His hybrid of electronica samples from pop, folk, house, dubstep and glitch – he’s finishing up an album titled “Just Movement” and working in the studio […]
All in a day’s work: Robotanists cover and release Radiohead’s new album ‘The King of Limbs’
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This is either a publicity stunt or a stroke of genius, but we’ll bite: Robotanists, the L.A. quartet doing this month’s residency at the Silverlake Lounge, have covered Radiohead’s “King of Limbs” and released it digitally. Well, that was quick. Robotanists’ take on the latest from Thom Yorke and gang simplifies the arrangements – no […]
Video: Radiohead, ‘Lotus Flower’
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Thankfully, NME is here to explain the dance moves.
Radiohead announces 8th album, ‘King of Limbs’
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Who said newspapers are dead? Radiohead, which today announced its new record “King of Limbs” would be available digitally “as early as the end of this week,” will offer their eighth full-length as “the world’s first (perhaps) newspaper album,” according to its website. The deluxe version “King of Limbs,” produced by Nigel Godrich, will include […]
The Henry Clay People sign to TBD; album in June
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The Henry Clay People, whose classic rock-on-a-bender has won a large following in L.A., are signing to TBD Records, a subsidiary of ATO and the home to such bands as Radiohead, White Rabbits and Other Lives. The foursome’s new album, “Somewhere on the Golden Coast,” will be released in June in conjunction with the Ship […]
Tonight in L.A.: Girls, Year Long Disaster, Sally Jaye
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[It ain’t Radiohead – which raised over half a million dollars at its Haiti relief benefit on Sunday night at the Fonda – but here’s tonight abbreviated show menu:] It’ll be their last SoCal appearance before Coachella – San Francisco quartet Girls [pictured in August at the El Rey Theatre], still getting all kinds of […]
This weekend in L.A.: Cold War Kids, Jemina Pearl, Black Lips, Nico Vega, I See Hawks in L.A.
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[Michael Hutchence of INXS would have turned 50 years old today. Music is being played at Buzz Bands HQ in his honor. Here’s a quick weekend preview:] Tonight: Be Your Own Pet arrived on the scene around 2005 with a screech and snarl, and a rather exhilarating sense that the Nashville quartet was one garage-rock […]
