Incoming: Crumb, Royal Teeth, Seun Kuti, Teenage Fanclub, Mazzy Star, Gryffin, Worn-Tin, Roy Ayers, Fruit Bats, Meg Mac, Talker, Ladytron, Robert DeLong, Saves the Day, Peter Murphy, Shannon Shaw, Waxahatchee, Bob Mould, Sharon Van Etten, Dorothy, Jungle, Bane’s World, Jesse Boykins III, Between the Buried & Me, the Wood Brothers, the Chills
Also on Thursday: Mother Mother, Alice Wallace, American Crossroads Trio, As It Is, Night Talks, Super Unison, Sharon Van Etten, Night Shop, Quits, Ryan Hurd, Pop Noir, KRS-One, Dent May, the Last Internationale, Mae, Bayside
Sharon Van Etten releases her first album in five years, “Remind Me Tomorrow,” on Jan. 18. Her North American tour in support of the album winds up in Los Angeles on March 1.
Also on Saturday: David Rawlings, Self Help Fest, Burger A Go-Go, Lucius, Los Tigres Del Norte, Flor, Lola Kirke, Datsik, Anastasia Max, the Dales, Distant Cousins
Incoming: Air + Style, Van Morrison, Thurston Moore, Snarky Puppy, Senses Fail, Real Estate, Margo Price, Nothing More, Mat Kearney, Anderson East, Sunflower Bean, Theo Katzman, Robert Plant, Cut Chemist, the Dears, Burger A Go-Go, Demi Lovato, They Might Be Giants, Mondo Cozmo, Ana Tijoux, Gogol Bordello, Sharon Van Etten, Buffalo Tom, the Lone Bellow, Meg Baird, the Presets
Other L.A. concerts: Milky Chance, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Matt & Kim, Fu Manchu, Dwight Yoakam, First Aid Kit, A.A. Bondy, Sky Ferreira, Yuna, more
Sharon Van Etten has made a career out of wearing her heart on her sleeves. From 2009’s “Because I Was In Love” to last year’s beautiful “Are We There” (an album that made one of many year-end lists), Van Etten has sung from both sides of the relationship. But whether she was a victim or […]
Last week, we shared our favorite Los Angeles albums of the year, so here is Buzz Bands LA’s overall list, as rendered by this site’s principal contributors, Seraphina Lotkhamnga, Andrew Veeder and myself. So much good music, so little time: – Kevin Bronson
A lot of the time, less is more, and Brooklyn’s She Keeps Bees have mastered that mantra on their latest album “Eight Houses.” This will be the fourth full-length released by Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant, but it will be the first time they are working with an outside producer. With Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, The […]
The songs on Sharon Van Etten’s widely and deservedly praised fourth album “Are We There” are heart-rending and honest and oh-so-serious. But that doesn’t mean the 33-year-old singer-songwriter is; on Saturday night at the El Rey Theatre, she treated the big crowd to plenty of light-hearted banter, including suggesting at one point that she just […]
