Incoming: Music Tastes Good, Mondo Cozmo, Bleachers, Paramore, Banks, Black Kids, Perfume Genius, Bonobo, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Grizzly Bear, Facial, The xx, Kali Uchis, Interpol, Battles, Chelsea Wolfe, the Shins, Television, Lauren Ruth Ward, Happy Hollows, Ride, Haunted Summer, Imagine Dragons, Robyn Hitchcock, Nosaj Thing
Set times have been announced for the second annual Music Tastes Good festival, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in Long Beach, with Ween, Sleater-Kinney, Of Montreal, Los Lobos, Ride, Alvvays and more.
Music Tastes Good returns to downtown Long Beach on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, with Ween, Sleater-Kinney, Ride, Charles Bradley, Los Lobos, Peaches, !!!, Of Montreal and Alvvays on the bill.
“Charm Assault” is U.K. quartet Ride’s first new music since 1996; an album is on the way this summer via Wichita Recordings.
Also on Thursday night: The Joy Formidable, the Underachievers, Tamaryn, Cherub, Folk Riot, the Paper Kites, Sam Morrow, Henry Pope, Ghost Lit Kingdom
Including: Outpost Fest, Camp Flog Gnaw, Glen Hansard, Leon Bridges, James Supercave, In the Valley Below, Moon Taxi, Ride, the Joy Formidable, Coldplay, Peaches, Yo La Tengo, Blitzen Trapper, Squeeze, TV on the Radio, the Charlatans UK.
Friday night fun: â–º Weekend 2 of Coachella 2015 kicks off, with AC/DC, Tame Impala, Interpol, Steely Dan [pictured], Alabama Shakes, Alesso, Ride, Flying Lotus and many more. [Set times at the end of this post.] Here are Buzz Bands LA’s mini-reviews of 20 sets from Weekend 1. â–º Veteran Japanese psych-rockers Acid Mothers Temple […]
Heading to Indio for Weekend 2 of Coachella? Buzz Bands LA covered 58 sets during the first weekend of the festival, and below are the links to all of them. We had three writers on the ground trying to cover as much as possible (and, yes, we still missed a lot). Our favorites? We picked […]
A very happy Tuesday to you: â–º Brandon Flowers, who has a new solo album titled “The Desired Effect” coming May 19, visits the Troubadour. Above, director Warren Fu’s new video for “Still Want You.” â–º Fleetwood Mac [see our review and photos from Friday’s show] return for another night at the Forum. â–º It’s […]
Who: Ride in the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Heaven at dusk. Memorable Because: The Oxford quartet’s set suffered the same fate as Suede’s reunion show in 2011 — a virtuoso turn, under-attended. The shoegazers’ dreamy-cum-grandiose music has influenced dozens of indie-rockers since their four-album run in the 1990s, and Mark Gardener, Andy […]
