There were albums I loved, albums I liked, albums I appreciated and albums I avoided in 2012. Because of my regional focus, I spent an inordinate amount of time with music from Los Angeles artists. And strangely for me, a lot of the hyped bands failed to resonate; stuck in traffic, I’d rather have played […]
What a year. More than 140 Los Angeles-sired albums passed through the Buzz Bands LA headphones this year, not counting EPs, mixtapes and singles. Judging from the detritus at my desk – handwritten lists, stacks of CDs, press releases – and my unopened emails, there were a lot more out there. It came in all […]
[Photos and capsule reviews of selected sets from the Spring Street Stage at Saturday’s FYF Fest:] Simian Mobile Disco, Quicksand, James Blake, Chromatics, F*cked Up, Cloud Nothings, Redd Kross, King Tuff, FIDLAR, the Orwells ||| Photos by Laurie Scavo More photos and reviews after the jump:
Here’s your Tuesday show menu: ‣ Huge night at the Bootleg – Singer-songwriter, author and Throwing Muses co-founder Kristin Hersh [pictured] does an early solo acoustic show in the theater portion of the venue. Later, Josh Haden and Spain headline the Bootleg Bar behind their new album “The Soul of Spain.” Mike Watt + the […]
About the time Redd Kross busted into the 20-year-old nugget “Lady in the Front Row” on Tuesday night, a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled the Southland. Nobody in the sold-out Roxy Theatre noticed, especially the sweat-drenched denizens of the mosh pit, a multi-generational gang who were banging bodies to a band well into their fourth decade. Whether […]
Incoming: Green Day, Aerosmith, Black Lips, Seal, Redd Kross, Bear in Heaven, Husky, Pitbull, Nicki Minaj, Hanni El Khatib, the Kills, Langhorne Slim, Jack White, Norah Jones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Childish Gambino, John Doe, White Denim, Sigurb Ros, Andrew Bird, Tennis and more. Above: The Hype Williams-directed video for Jack White’s “Freedom at 21.” […]
It’s good bet that most young music fans don’t know Redd Kross from the Red Cross from Christopher Cross (Hint: One had a hit your parents held hands to called “Sailing,” and this is not about him.) It’s Redd Kross that resurfaced this week with the news that the band, conceived in the late ’70s […]
