Incoming: The Waterboys, Fiona Apple, Blake Mills, Gogol Bordello, 2Cellos, Little Green Cars, Tashaki Miyaki, Max & the Moon, Haunted Summer, Spirit Vine, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Daughter, Natalie Maines, Liam Finn, Spirit Animal, Fever the Ghost, Matthew Santos, the Maine, the Avett Brothers, Tom Odell, Bon Jovi, Culture Collide Festival, the Raveonettes, […]
Hello, Echo Park Rising, we had a feeling it’d be like this: The Icarus Line closed out the proceedings Saturday on the Buzz Bands LA / White Iris Records stage inside Taix restaurant with a chandelier-rattling performance of songs from their new album “Slave Vows.” They were preceded by an eight-pack of stellar performances from […]
[Note: Because of Buzz Bands LA’s tech woes last week, we’re a bit tardy in posting our coverage of last weekend’s events. So now we play catch-up:] The decade-plus exploits of the Icarus Line are the stuff of legends: Bad-boy antics, disintegrating relationships, self-immolating habits, lineup changes, record-industry misadventures, utter and public contempt for anything […]
Thought we were going to end our first night of Echo Park Rising on a nice note? Think again. Buzz Bands LA is happy to announce the Icarus Line as the latest addition to the Taix Champagne Room stage co-presented by White Iris Records. As our closing act for Saturday night, Joe Cardamone and crew will […]
‣ The Icarus Line celebrates the release of its new album “Slave Vows” at the Roxy Theatre, supported by Lido Beach, Retox, Gateway Drugs, Wake Up Lucid, Cherri Bomb and Badflower. ‣ The Presets are joined by Tanlines, Robert DeLong and FMLYBND for an X Games-related show at Club Nokia. ‣ Kitten rocks a sold-out […]
Incoming: System of a Down, Sunset Strip Music Festival, HARD Summer, Writer, Bad Rabbits, Sebadoh, Franz Ferdinand, We the Kings, Dr. John, Joan Jett, Xavier Rudd, Son Volt, Shye Ben-Tzur, El-P, the Decoders, Ours, Casey Veggies, the Sword, ZZ Top, Tony Bennett, the Presets, Kitten, the Icarus Line, Daughn Gibson, Blackalicious, José James, Ozomatli, Scott […]
First impression of the new album from long-running L.A. bad boys the Icarus Line? Thank goodness nobody’s aging gracefully here. And we say that in the most complimentary way possible. Enfants terrible in their 20s and still sounding every bit the hell-raisers, Joe Cardamone and longtime allies Lance Arnao (bass) and Alvin DeGuzmann (keys), along […]
There’s probably a riveting docu-drama waiting to be made about the life and times of Annie Hardy, the rail-thin singer-guitarist who roared out of Orange County eight years ago as party of grunge-gaze (OK, we just made that up) duo Giant Drag. Hardy’s prickly and hilariously R-rated observations and her wounded-waif persona made Giant Drag’s […]
Wake Up Lucid doesn’t make nice. Not musically, anyway. The band of cousins – Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca – mete out scuzzy blues you imagine sprung from gear that barely works, seething with emotion and crackling with defiance toward those who would water down rock ’n’ roll for the digital age. After thundering onto […]
Happy Halloween – hope everything’s ghoul with you: ‣ Zola Jesus, the Wisconsin-bred, L.A.-based purveyor of brooding darkwave, brings her small frame and big pipes to the Echoplex as her fall tour behind the release of her debut album “Conatus” nears an end. That’s the video for her song “Vessel,” above, directed by Jacqueline Castel. […]
