Tonight in L.A.: Tarfest, Sunset Strip Music Festival, Beck, Bedrocktoberfest, Make Music Go Bang! Festival, Katy Perry, José James, Chvrches, Better Than Ezra, Odesza, Martina McBride, Mickey Avalon
Happy Saturday … ‣ Tarfest, the annual free, all-ages music and arts event on the Miracle Mile that kicks off at 1 p.m., brings Hunter Hunted, the Moth & the Flame, DWNTWN, Tapioca and the Flea and the Dead Ships to the La Brea Tar Pits Park. [Set times here.] ‣ Jane’s Addiction, performing their […]
Tarfest – the free, all-ages music and art festival going off Saturday at the La Brea Tar Pits Park – has announced set times for the five artists who are performing live. The afternoon affair will culminate with a 6 p.m. set from indie-pop favorites Hunter Hunted, who are taking a break from working on […]
There are elegant chandeliers above the stage in the Champagne Room at Taix restaurant, and during a few of the sets on the Buzz Bands LA Stage on Saturday at Echo Park Rising, you worried for their health. Plenty of show-stealing transpired over the course of the afternoon and evening, and the highlights were many: […]
Echo Park Rising, the free neighborhood festival that has extended from two days to three days, is just around the corner. Festivities will kick off Friday, Aug. 15 and continue through Sunday Aug. 17, and Buzz Bands LA is once again privileged to be curating one stage during the festival, in the Champagne Room at Taix […]
Harmony-rich indie-poppers Hunter Hunted will headline this year’s Tarfest, the free, all-ages music and arts festival at La Brea Tar Pits Park on Saturday, Sept. 20. The 12th annual festival on the Miracle Mile, which runs from 1 to 8 p.m., features four more of L.A.’s top emerging musical acts – the Moth & the Flame, […]
Echo Parking Rising, the free neighborhood festival that has announced its extension from two days to three days, is happening on Friday, Aug. 15 through Sunday Aug. 17, and Buzz Bands LA is once again privileged to be curating one stage during the festival, in the Champagne Room at Taix Lounge. This year, we present 10 […]
Kan Wakan, Allah-Las, Woods, De Lux, GoldLink, Myron & E and Cherry Glazerr are among the artists playing Echo Park Rising, which expands to three days of free shows this year (Aug. 15-17) at various venues in Echo Park. Buzz Bands LA again returns to the Champagne Room at Taix, presenting a Saturday lineup of […]
If you just had lunch, prepare yourself for the video for “Golden Room” from L.A. garage-punk trio the Dead Ships. The second-half of the clip may reveal a bizarre and cartoonish version of gore, but the Herculion (Mitchel McKenzie and Aaron Silverstein)-directed clip could warrant an R rating if you’ve got some of the kiddies hanging […]
Coachella draws closer and so do some its performers: ‣ Swedish electronic duo the Knife warm up for their Friday night Coachella appearance at the Fox Theater Pomona, and as always with shows featuring Karin and Olof Dreijer, the performance figures to be high-concept theater. The troupe for their “Shaking the Habitual Tour” numbers 22, […]
Incoming: Coachella, Lawrence Rothman, Banta, Mystic Braves, Mosco Rosco, On An On, Ziggy Marley, Foster the People, Katie Herzig, Summer Camp, Ingrid Michaelson, Boy & Bear, STRFKR, the Dead Ships, Beck, the Knife, RAC, De Lux, Together Pangea, Chromeo, FKA Twigs, Disclosure, Motorhead, Ruby Friedman, Joe Ely, Switchfoot, Pet Shop Boys, Eastern Conference Champions, Karsh […]