The long North American tour recently announced by breakout rockers the Airborne Toxic Event will be an all-Los Angeles affair. Red Cortez, the local quartet [Harley Prechtel-Cortez, pictured] whose soulful blues-rock stamped them as one of SoCal’s most promising up-and-comers when the band emerged under the name the Weather Underground, will join the Henry Clay […]
Red Cortez and Glasser have been added to the benefit show for the fire-ravaged TacoZone truck, which I posted about earlier in the day. Kenan Bell and Robert Francis are the other principals for Friday’s shindig at Spaceland.
[Kylie Minogue celebrates a birthday today, and on a more modest scale I submit to you a celebratory list of fine shows tonight …] St. Vincent, the nom de tune of Annie Clark, returns to L.A. for a show at the El Rey Theatre behind her new album, “Actor.” Should be good: The Times spent […]
There’s no terrestrial radio station to tout it – and somebody get to work on that, will ya? – but the Hammer Museum’s summertime music series, “Also I Like to Rock,” returns to the Westwood Village institution in July with a lively slate of indie-rock bands. The series, promoted in past years by rock station […]
||| Download: “Buzzsicle 3” I originally created Buzzsicle 3 for a special promotion, and … well, it’s a long story, but I never posted it until now. It’s an hour’s worth of music featuring 15 songs by L.A. artists Red Cortez, Spider Problem, the Yelling, Greyboy, the Gray Kid, Keenhouse, NightWaves, Shiloe, Robotanists, His Orchestra, […]
It’s been too long since I posted a podcast, so this is Step 1 in catching up. This fourth edition of the Buzzsicle features songs from 17 L.A. artists whose names I heard in the aftermath of last month’s South by Southwest Music Festival. In my Austin wanderings, I mostly avoided L.A. bands, figuring I […]
Please excuse this self-promotional interlude: I will be in Austin next week at South by Southwest, hoping to open my ears to some new flavors and blogging as much as humanly possible – as well as co-hosting the “Buzz Bands at Cheers” party Friday afternoon at Cheers on 6th. The party features sets by seven […]
No official word yet from the headliner’s camp, but I hear Morrissey has taken ill, forcing cancellation of the first four dates of a nationwide tour that was to begin Saturday in Florida. The missed dates will not only disappoint Moz fans, eager to hear the songs from his new album, “Years of Refusal,” but […]
Los Angeles quartet Red Cortez has been selected as the sole supporting act for 12 U.S. dates on Morrissey’s tour. Moz, crisscrossing the country behind the Feb. 17 release of his new album “Years of Refusal,” will be joined by the L.A. rockers starting Feb. 28 in Florida and ending March 17 in Pittsburgh. Dates […]
With their new album “Slipway Fires” due for a U.S. release in March, British quartet Razorlight stoked the fires of anticipation by playing a sold-out show on Tuesday at the Troubadour. L.A. quartet Red Cortez opened, giving the bill two very dynamic frontmen, Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell and the local band’s Harley Prechtel-Cortez. Photographer Timothy Norris […]
