This just in: The music lineup for the 2010 Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival – Lobsterfest to everybody who got buttery fingers in past years – is its most impressive yet, featuring John Doe & Exene Cervenka anchoring a roster of some of SoCal’s most promising up-and-comers and genre-diverse indie artists. The three-day shindig […]
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As piano men go, Andrew Lynch is something of a shredder. Sometimes his songs – like the ones on his new album “Sun Incisions” – seem to take control of his hands, and, for that matter, his arms and elbows and head and anything else he can strike the keys with. Even given his delirious […]
[Andy Bell of Oasis, and Ride before that, turns 39 today. Cheers, mate. And in L.A. environs …] Black Francis hits town for a pair of solo acoustic dates at the Mint, with Mere Mortals [whose new music I previewed a couple of weeks ago] opening. … Let’s see: A 60-foot giantess, a discredited scientist […]
[Freelance entertainment writer Pamela Chelin reports on Tuesday night’s proceedings at Largo at the Coronet:] By Pamela Chelin It was an eclectic blend of laughs and earnestness on Tuesday night at Largo with Los Angeles’ hardest-rocking string players, the Section Quartet. The group (violinists Eric Gorfain and Marina Kuney, violist Daphne Chen and cellist Richard […]
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[Apologies – this installment of Tonight in L.A. was delayed by the, ahem, aftereffects of Last Night in L.A. …] It’s no secret how much Art Brut is admired around Buzz Bands HQ; we’ve even been known to affect corny English accents and say “brilliant” as we witness Eddie Argos’ shout-sung self-flagellations. The British quintet […]
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