[Here’s our long-delayed wrap-up on October’s Culture Collide fest:] Last month’s second annual Culture Collide festival staged by Filter found the chewy center for two groups of music fans – sonic explorers bent on discovering new bands, and expatriates of the 24 nations represented by the bands playing the neighborhoody, eight-venue event in Echo Park. […]
SecondTuesday – Buzz Bands LA’s monthly songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe – takes a turn for the eclectic in October. On the agenda: sibling rivalry, a birthday celebration, a beer crawl and plenty of good tunes for a good cause. Headlining on Oct. 11 will be Joey and Andy Siara of the Henry Clay […]
Echo Park goes global for four days beginning Thursday, Oct. 6, when the Culture Collide festival returns for a second year, bringing artists from 24 countries to eight venues – and, on Sunday, to a three-stage street fair. The festival, the brainchild of the magazine/marketing firm Filter, will be highlighted by two performances by Brazil’s […]
The Henry Clay People and Lady Danville put exclamation points on the 2011 edition of Also I Like to Rock at the Hammer Museum, the Henry Clays with their piquant, prickly indie-rock and Lady Danville with their poignant harmonies. The finale on Thursday of the seventh annual series, curated by Buzz Bands LA, also featured […]
Top of the Thursday to you: ‣ The 2011 edition of Also I Like to Rock at the Hammer Museum closes with a bang tonight, with sets from the Henry Clay People and Lady Danville. The Henry Clays are working on material for their next album after this spring’s very strong “This Is a Desert” […]
Grouplove, razor-sharp from a summer of touring and festival dates, and Milo Greene, exultant from the news that day of their getting a record deal, delivered buoyant performances Thursday night at this month’s third installment of the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum. The biggest crowd of the 2011 series so […]
The Soft Pack and Hanni El Khatib accentuated the rock in the Also I Like to Rock series on Thursday night, delivering scorched-earth performances to a big crowd in the Hammer Museum courtyard. The Soft Pack previewed a handful of new songs the L.A. quartet has in the works for a new album, and Hanni […]
Graffiti6 and Eastern Conference Champions kicked off the seventh annual Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum on Thursday night in raucous fashion. Playing to a capacity crowd in the museum’s courtyard, ECC unleashed 45 minutes of melodic, fuzz-drenched indie rock to start the night before the U.K.’s Graffiti6, with singer Jamie […]
If it’s July, it must be time for the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum. The free shows, with two bands performing per night (along with KCRW-FM DJs), go off every Thursday of the month, starting July 7 with Graffiti6 and Eastern Conference Champions. We figured you’d like to hear what’s […]
Appearances by rising U.K. sensations Graffiti6 and southern California standouts the Soft Pack, Grouplove and the Henry Clay People highlight this year’s seventh installment of the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum. The free shows in the museum’s courtyard – held at 7 p.m. every Thursday in July – also feature […]
