Did you score any new music on Record Store Day? Echo Park shop Origami Vinyl made it a little easier on music fans’ budget, hosting an all-day free show at the Echo with a top-drawer crew of local bands playing along with Wisconsin’s All Tiny Creatures and Zammuto, the new project from Books’ Nick Zammuto. […]
What I’ve always liked most about the Henry Clay People is that they are one of the least delusional bands out there. Brothers Joey and Andy Siara probably had a good sense of themselves when they were teenagers, and now that they’re roaring through their 20s, making music (of all the endeavors they could possibly […]
Soaking it up on the final Monday in March: ‣ Twenty-two-year-old electro whiz Nicolas Jaar plays his first official L.A. show at the Echoplex behind his 2011 album “Space Is Only Noise.” ‣ The Henry Clay People rock the Viper Room, supported by TS & the Past Haunts and the Mowgli’s. ‣ NO’s residency at […]
[Our look at the week ahead, starting with Nicolas Jaar, playing Monday, and his video for “Mi Mujer”:] Incoming: Nicolas Jaar, NO, Voxhaul Broadcast, the Henry Clay People, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Harriet, White Arrows, White Rabbits, Matthew Dear, Races, Kathleen Edwards, the Wedding Present and more. Our staff picks of the week: […]
The stage at Opal Divine’s Freehouse in Austin is like a treehouse stationed at the end of a picnic area. For almost seven hours Wednesday at Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin, Love L.A.” day party, nine Los Angeles bands used it as their plaything, dispensing crisp sets as if they were all on a family […]
BUZZBANDS.LA, brings nine of the southern California’s best emerging bands to Austin today for “DEAR AUSTIN: LOVE, L.A.” – a kickoff party concurrent with the first day of the 2012 SXSW Music Festival. The free showcase runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. 6th Street, Austin. No RSVP is necessary. […]
Nine SoCal bands are playing Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin: Love, L.A.” day party next Wednesday on the first day of the South by Southwest Music Festival. It seems like 999 SoCal bands are actually headed to Austin. When we started culling music from those artists, our uploader begged for for mercy. So we called […]
Buzz Bands LA is partying next month at the South by Southwest Music Festival. “DEAR AUSTIN: LOVE, L.A.” brings nine southern California bands to Austin for a kickoff party on Wednesday, March 14, at Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. 6th Street. The showcase (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) is free, no RSVP in necessary and […]
The rundown for tonight, as accompanied by Nellie McKay’s rendition of “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” by the late Broadway composer Frank Loesser (“Guys and Dolls”): ‣ The Henry Clay People, LA Font and Races party at the Satellite, with Buzz Bands LA DJing and Paulie Pesh and Joe Napolitano/Jillinda Palmer doing sets […]
The last time I witnessed the Henry Clay People play a New Year’s Eve show: The Satellite was known as Spaceland; the Henry Clays covered “Sometime Around Midnight” at, well, about midnight; there was an onstage marriage proposal; the band played 90-plus minutes of classic rock covers in addition to an hour of their own […]
