Including: Elvis Costello, The Joy Formidable, Cocorosie, Lissie, Freddie Gibbs, Andra Day, Cate Le Bon, Pell, Banners, Santigold, Quantic, White Denim, Father John Misty, Car Seat Headrest, Bag Raiders, Mothers, Tinashe, Gaz Coombes, Geographer.
White Denim release their first single, “Holda You (I’m Psycho),” off of their forthcoming album “Stiff,” out March 25. The song features great guitar, the video great air guitar.
Incoming: Alt-J, Pentatonix, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Metronomy, White Denim, Banks, Dry the River, Hanni El Khatib, Olin & the Moon, Hobart W Fink, TV on the Radio, Nas, Eastern Conference Champions, Fever the Ghost, the Acid, Matt Ellis, the Brave Ones, Ceci Bastida, Matisyahu, Jessie Ware, the Melvins, Le Butcherettes, Kimbra, Sloan, Tom Vek, Movement, Colin […]
A very eclectic Saturday: ‣ Genre-mashing singer-songwriter-cellist Ben Sollee [pictured] does a night at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. He recently teamed up with 18-piece orchestra Mother Falcon to cover Daft Punk [download here] and released the free album “The Hollow Sessions,” the follow-up to his fourth full-length “Half-Made Man.” ‣ Singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, […]
‣ O.C.-bred quintet Young the Giant, whose sophomore album “Mind Over Matter” came out in January, headlines the Palladium, with Cayucas opening. ‣ Citizen Cope, the singer-guitarist-producer born Clarence Greenwood, does an intimate solo show athte Wiltern, with Alice Smith supporting. ‣ It’s the second in 2014’s First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum, […]
Incoming: Future Islands, Young the Giant, Kan Wakan, Moses Sumney, Kera & the Lesbians, Busy Living, the Bots, the New Electric Sound, Fever the Ghost, Mad Caddies, the Belle Brigade, Lucius, Step Brothers, Vitamin String Quartet, Shooter Jennings, Mother Falcon, Los Lonely Boys, Action Bronson, Immortal Technique, Citizen Cope, Baths, Delorean, Mary Chapin Carpenter, White […]
Here’s your super Saturday: ‣ Jack White does a second night at the Shrine Auditorium in support of his album “Blunderbuss.” ‣ Austin’s psychedelic rockers White Denim headline the Troubadour with L.A. band Seasons as support. ‣ ’80s pop legends Duran Duran continue touring and stop by the the Pacific Amphitheatre. ‣ Red Hot Chili […]
Incoming: Green Day, Aerosmith, Black Lips, Seal, Redd Kross, Bear in Heaven, Husky, Pitbull, Nicki Minaj, Hanni El Khatib, the Kills, Langhorne Slim, Jack White, Norah Jones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Childish Gambino, John Doe, White Denim, Sigurb Ros, Andrew Bird, Tennis and more. Above: The Hype Williams-directed video for Jack White’s “Freedom at 21.” […]
South by Southwest 2012 offered an orgiastic selection of music, too bounteous for any one person to digest. Buzz Bands LA contributing photographer Scott Dudelson made the rounds all week and hit some of the festival’s buzziest artists – from everyone’s darlings, Alabama Shakes (top photo) to swoon-worthy songstresses (Fiona Apple and Norah Jones) to […]
A superb slate of shows for your Saturday: ‣ Grammy-nominated the Roots visit the House of Blues for the 8th Annual Roots Jam Session, which is sure to feature some special cameos and this year benefits the youth charity United Roots Oakland. ‣ O.C. breakout rockers Young The Giant headline the first of two nights […]
