Tonight in L.A.: Jubilee Music Fest (the Drums, Fool’s Gold), Ink-N-Iron Festival (Iggy & the Stooges, Rocket From the Crypt), Tom Petty, Bjork, Rufus Wainwright, Andrea Bocelli, Pat Benatar, the Field, Hot As Sun, Cannoneers, Victory
Saturday’s big things: ‣ Day 2 of the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival goes off in the Downtown L.A. Arts District, featuring the Drums, Fool’s Gold, Cayucas, NO, Calvin Love, RiFF RAFF, Tapioca & the Flea, Daddy Kev and many more. Single-day admission available; it’s at Santa Fe and Willow streets [above, the 6th Street […]
Forays for the last day of May: ‣ Suddenly huge Scottish electro trio CHVRCHES, with only this year’s “Recover” EP to their credit (they are currently mixing their full-length), hold forth at the Fonda Theatre, with London duo Still Corners opening. [Chvrches at the Echo in March.] ‣ Tijuana Panthers celebrate the release of their […]
Songwriter Robert Fleming’s now-out-of-the-bedroom project Victory made its full-length debut in April with “Victory Is Music,” a declarative that rings true over the album’s 10 tracks of groove-laden, electro-tinged blues. All kinds of influences come to mind – Spoon, Beck, the Dandy Warhols – but what Victory has done is mind its songs, keeping them […]
Back in 2011, singer-multi-instrumentalist Robert Fleming was dealing in wine and song, in that order. Juggling a day job servicing oenophiles with his passion for songwriting, Fleming – working under the name Victory – released an EP called “Demonstrations” that demonstrated he knew his way around a pop song. This week, Fleming released his debut […]
Robert Fleming’s bright pop project Victory sank its hooks into us last fall with “Kickers” [download it, really], and now the young songwriter/oenophile is prepping a new album of material. Lest we need a picker-upper on a sunny southern California day, however, he has released this video for “Kickers,” directed by Steven Tralongo. Be happier.
Join me at midnight tonight on KCSN (88.5 FM, or streaming at KCSN.org) as my LA Buzz Bands Show begins a three-week celebration of my favorite local music of 2011. My “Fave 40” countdown will feature the local tunes I had in heaviest rotation this year, and there were plenty to choose from. Tonight’s show […]
Robert Fleming could probably recommend a good cabernet, or wax poetic on the bouquet of that 2009 Sauvignon Blanc, but it’s what’s fermenting in his Silver Lake bedroom that’s equally tasty. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter (day job: the wine industry) makes music under the name Victory, and his first one-man excursion into pop territory is an […]
