Your jam-packed Tuesday evening: ‣ We’ll start today’s formidable list with our own small show: Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday monthly songwriter night brings Fort King, College Kids and Doom & Gloom to Lot 1 Cafe. Doors at 9. ‣ Twelve musicians and seemingly a thousand rhythms strong, Afrobeat collective Antibalas visits the Echoplex behind its […]
Well, isn’t this cute? Husband and wife Jack Dishel (aka Only Son) and Regina Spektor look pretty classy in the video for “Call Them Brothers.” Directed and shot by James Holland using Super 8mm film (additional archival footage was shot by family friend Howard Zuckerman), the happy couple gets a historical tint via photographs and […]
Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Rock the Bells, Grandaddy, the Kills, Alabama Shakes, Michael Kiwanuka, Dead Can Dance, Regina Spektor, Peter Murphy, Neil Diamond, Amadou & Miriam, HoneyHoney, the Henry Clay People, Zola Jesus, Fun., Filter and more. Above: Peter Murphy, the 55-year-old “Godfather of Goth,” recently told the Sunset Strip Music Festival blog that […]
[Ben Harper turns 40 today. He’ll be one of the folks doing the big “Hullabaloo” fundraiser for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music at Union Station on Halloween night, by the way …] Should be a nice night to bring a sweater and settle in for some music under the stars – Regina Spektor, who’s been […]
[Apologies for the radio silence yesterday; I think Buzz Bands’ server problems have been fixed. Here are some delectable options for tonight:] That band with Jack White in it is getting all the attention, but there are several other newsbies filling my ears with hot-licked blues-rock. Band of Skulls, playing L.A. for the umpteenth time […]
Regina Spektor’s new album “far” comes out June 23, and color me infatuated with “Eet,” especially this video. The album will mark her first new material since 2006’s “Begin to Hope” (except that song on the “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” soundtrack), and it’ll be a welcome addition to the summertime CD bag. No U.S. […]
