Indie-pop siren Madi Diaz will be joined by anthem-bearing sextet Afternoons and rock quartets Eastern Conference Champions and Francisco the Man at the July installment of Chinatown Summer Nights. The free, all-ages show near Chinatown’s Central Plaza, which kicks off a 6 p.m. on July 12, also features Black Apples and Wet & Reckless. All […]
Incoming: Warped Tour, Ed Sheeran, Alex & Sierra, Blackwater Jukebox, Garate, Seven Saturdays, Bernhoft, Metronomy, the Mountain Goats, Crash Kings, Atomic Ape, Emily Wells, Fyfe Dangerfield & Aristazabal Hawkes, Them Howling Bones, Bad Suns, Clean Bandit, Kaya, Cowboy Junkies, Failure, Gavin DeGraw, Rodigro Amarante, Sabrina Antoinette, Chad VanGaalen, Adrian Sherwood, Sam Outlaw, Victoria Reed, Bones […]
Those who sought to assuage their Fear of Missing Out by attending the FOMO festival on Friday night ended up having to deal with another neurosis: conflicting set times that sent the hardest of the hardcore scurrying up and down the stairs between the Echo and Echoplex all evening. With 11 artists (plus some spoken […]
Eastern Conference Champions closed out the Buzz Bands LA / White Iris Records stage at Echo Park Rising on Sunday night with a signature blast of guitar-driven ecstasy. But that we expected. What surprised was the soulful, rather show-stealing turn from Rachel Fannan and her band Only You. It was but one reason the Taix […]
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 […]
Echo Parking Rising, the free, two-day neighborhood festival is happening on Saturday, Aug. 17 and Sunday, Aug. 18, and Buzz Bands LA is once again privileged to be curating one stage during the festival, in the Champagne Room at Taix Lounge. This year, we team up with White Iris Records to present 16 local bands […]
Middle of the week: ‣ Cold War Kids gear up for the April release of its fourth album “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts” by playing the Bootleg Theater. Superhumanoids open. ‣ Sir Sly dives into the second week of its Wednesday night residency at the Echo, heading up a lineup that includes Tapioca & the Flea, Frank+Derol […]
Your Sunday selections: ‣ San Diego-based Steve Poltz, the wildly entertaining singer-songwriter-satirist who rose from coffeehouse phenom to collaborate with Jewel and become known for sing-alongs, headlines this month’s edition of the Sunday Night Jones at the Satellite. The evening also features Billy Harvey, the hosts Daniel Ahearn & the Jones and a post-headliner songwriter […]
‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot Cafe features Radical Face, Cerise, Paulie Pesh and Alanna Lin of Fascinoma. Details here. ‣ Deerhunter visits the Wiltern. ‣ Allah hLas’ residency at the Echo continues with Farmer Dave Scher, the Tyde and Tomorrow’s Tulips supporting. ‣ And Wet & Reckless return to the Satellite. […]
[Make mine a double, please: Jack White and Isaac Brock were born in this day in 19 hundred and seventy-five:] Part 1 of your weekend: ‣ This evening’s installment of Saturdays Off the 405 at the Getty features a headlining set by Best Coast, joined by DJ Kave-In. The free concert begins at 6 p.m. […]
