[Recapping today’s noteworthy album releases:] x x x x x x Of local interest Apex Manor, “The Year of Magical Drinking” (Merge) – Jangly, earnest songcraft from ex-Broken West main man Ross Flournoy. [Video. Interview/download.] Recommended. Cold War Kids, “Mine Is Yours” (Downtown/Interscope) – The quartet’s third album offers a bigger, bolder and more direct […]
Young the Giant, the youthful SoCal quintet that will release its debut album digitally on Oct. 26 on Roadrunner Records, has postponed the remainder of its residency at the Troubadour this month after getting an offer to join Marina and the Diamonds on tour. The band’s reps say the tour opportunity was too good to […]
Orange County-bred quintet Young the Giant soared onto the SoCal indie-rock landscape in 2008, back when they were called the Jakes. Their new, slightly obtuse moniker aside, the Giants are young – Sameer Gadhia, Jacob Tilley, Eric Cannata, Payam Doostzadeh and Francois Comtois are all 21 or younger – but their songs brim with grown-up […]
[The man born Curtis James Jackson – 50 Cent – turns 35 today.] My top 3 reasons to leave Buzz Bands HQ tonight: ‣ Marina & the Diamonds (that’s Marina Diamandis’ video for “Oh No!,” above] play a sold-out show at the Troubadour behind her debut album “The Family Jewels.” ‣ Art-pop ensemble Fol Chen […]
[A bit of everything here: benefit shows, bands with new names and World Cup soccer:] The Airborne Toxic Event returns to the site of their very first show, the Echo, on May 25 for a charity gig for the Neda Project – an Amnesty International-related effort named for Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian woman who was […]
