Going to Coachella on Weekend 2? Want to relive the first weekend? Buzz Bands LA covered 53 of the festival’s 184 performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday and published more than 170 photographs. After the jump, we provide quick links to everything:
Who: Superchunk at the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Venerable indie clinic Memorable Because: Twenty-five years after Superchunk’s forming one might have expected a catalog-spanning retrospective of the essentials, but Chapel Hill’s over-the-hill heroes gave Coachella something just as good: the new stuff. It wasn’t the sing-a-long celebration they played on the Outdoor […]
With their latest album titled “I Hate Music,” fans know Superchunk are able to poke fun at life. In fact, their hilariously new Scott Jacobson-directed music video for the track “Void” zooms in on the the aging concert-goer in a scuzziest-of-venues scenario. The aging scene guys at Brooklyn venue Shea Stadium are played by H. […]
Your show picks for a steamy Wednesday: ‣ Superchunk headlines the El Rey Theatre behind their latest album “I Hate Music.” Colleen Green opens. Jason Narducy fills in for the ailing Laura Ballance on bass for the long-running Chapel Hill, N.C., rockers. ‣ Perfect for your NIN hangover – industrial duo Youth Code rocks the […]
Incoming: NIN, The Bangles, Berlin, Bootleg’s Summer Send-Off, Sun Rai, Katie Costello, Blonde Redhead, Black Sabbath, Fun., Tegan & Sara, Meg Myers, Carly Ritter, Superchunk, Youth Code, Backstreet Boys, Gary Numan, John Hiatt, Gardens & Villa, Eve, Anticon 15-Year Anniversary, Dwight Yoakam, Gold Fields, Los Lobos, Desert Stars Festival, Javier Dunn, ZZ Ward, Vintage Trouble, […]
The following thought occurred to a certain music writer Tuesday night during Superchunk’s thwackingly good set at the Music Box: I should have name-checked Superchunk a lot more over the past few years of scribbling about buzz bands who aspire to high-energy guitar rock. The Chapel Hill, N.C. quartet – visiting to promote “Majesty Shredding,” […]
[It’s Karl Wallinger’s birthday today, and I miss me some World Party …] Top show featuring fortysomethings we love: ‣ Superchunk (new album “Majesty Shredding”) and the Vaselines (new album “Sex With an X” – that’s the video, above) play the Music Box, with Telekinesis opening. You couldn’t go wrong here either: ‣ Broken Social […]
Of all the comebacks and reunions and renaissances in the past two years, none found my sweet spot quicker than Superchunk’s “Majesty Shredding.” Majestic to its exuberant, celebratory core, the quartet’s first album in nine years doesn’t feel a bit like an attempt to cash in on the nostalgia of the band’s heyday. The video […]
Michael Benjamin Lerner’s unfettered take power-pop shone brightly on the first Telekinesis album – one of my favorite energy drinks of 2009 – and now, surrounded by a new cast of cohorts including Jason Narducy (Robert Pollard band, Verbow) and Cody Votolato (Jaguar Love, the Blood Brothers), he’s taken the first step toward a sophomore […]
