Your spectacular Saturday: ► The legendary Beach Boys celebrate their 50th anniversary with a reunion tour and stop by the Hollywood Bowl with their pop-laden harmonies. ► Glasgow’s post-rock b...
You know the concept of vocal control, right? Justin Taylor’s voice has vibe control. Taylor — aka Jutty Taylor, aka Jutty Shark — was last (and still heard) heard fronting the breezy pop of Bl...
Happy June, and happy Friday. To help the final day of your workweek fly by, I’ll have some new flavors today on the Buzz Bands LA Show on Moheak Radio. I’ll introduce you to Jutty Ranx, ...
Sea Wolf has emerged from the mist. The nom de tune of singer-songwriter Alex Brown Church, Sea Wolf today announced that its third album “Old World Romance” — Church’s first new mu...
Well, that didn’t take long. Barely a year has passed since U.K quartet the Vaccines became the latest band to save rock ’n’ roll, their 2011 debut “What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?...
Friday’s forecast is looking pretty fantastic: ► Cut Chemist and Superhumanoids usher out the 2012 First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum, which brings live music and DJs to the ins...
Sometimes you hear a voice and wonder where it’s been all this time, and why this voice hasn’t been singing all your favorite songs all along. Often such an artist had been writing hit so...
It took Eyes Lips Eyes over a year to record 2011′s “Blue Red,” but the quartet, who call their sound “disco-punk,” are already hard at work on their follow-up album. Pe...
With all these obituaries having been written for the music industry, how come so many artists on the Buzz Bands LA radar keep getting signed? The latest bulletin is that Hot As Sun — the collaborati...
The new single from Metric is a sexy beast, Emily Haines cooing over an alpine guitar line and insistent beats. Makes you want to hear more of the quartet’s fifth album, “Synthetica,̶...
M83 have been busy touring in support of their latest record “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” (we’ve witnessed three of those dates since its release), but they also continue to bea...
Yes, the remarkable Brendan Cook-directed and -animated video for “Hearts a Mess” is 4-plus years old and has received more than 4 million plays on YouTube. We share it because Gotye anno...
Saying goodbye to the month of May: ► The “Church Sessions” at the First Unitarian Church (2938 W. 8th Street) kick off with a slate of Diego Garcia, Ryat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Aaro...
The weekend’s 26h annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA packed a punch with a lineup of the Roots, Alison Hinds, Booker T, Shaggy, Gary Clark Jr. and more. Check out Randall Roberts’ ...
Jotted on a napkin while free-associating with the Henry Clay People’s album “Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives,” coming out June 26 on TBD Records: We know that what we are doi...
The calendar for free summertime concert series is rapidly filling, but there is one longtime favorite that will be conspicuously absent this year: the Also I Like to Rock shows at the Hammer Museum....
The Duke Spirit’s migration from the shoegazey/Britpop turf of its inception into more bluesy territory suits the U.K. quintet well. Singer Liela Moss has grown into her boots as a frontwoman w...
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person,” the late Andy Rooney once said, and we were reminded of that quote at the Silver Lake Jubilee over the weekend because so many...
Featuring the Soft Pack, Princeton, Maya Jupiter, Incan Abraham, the Lonely Wild, Summer Twins and more Photographer Jeff Koga shares this gallery from Sunday’s Silver Lake Jubilee. Check it out afte...
Featuring Aloe Blacc, Maya Jupiter, Eastern Conference Champions, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Chasing Kings, more. Photographer Laurie Scavo shares this gallery from Sunday’s Silver Lake Jubilee. Check...
@Seraphina_L on Sunday’s Silver Lake Jubilee: The Silver Lake Jubilee continued on Sunday and pulled in even more attendees than it did on Saturday. The weather was warmer and the neighborhood ...
Kitten, the cherubic band fronted by still-teenaged Chloe Chaidez, has been paying its dues since releasing its “Sunday School” EP in late 2010. Tour, write, record, repeat, tour, write, ...
Wednesday’s offerings: ► Jack White returns to L.A. for the first of a two-night stand at the Wiltern behind his solo album “Blunderbuss.” ► New Zealand icons the Clean, now into th...
With its comfortable mix of Americana-blues and harmony-laden pop-rock, young L.A. quartet King Washington won’t score many points for coloring outside the lines. But “The Gears” — ...
To fans of post-punk revivalists Elefant, frontman Diego Garcia’s solo debut must have been a revelation. Elefant emerged early last decade with an undeniable single or two (most notably “...
Featuring Kinky, Autolux, La Santa Cecilia, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, the Record Company and more. Photographer Laurie Scavo shares this gallery from Saturday’s Silver Lake Jubilee. Chec...
Featuring JJAMZ, Leslie Stevens, Robert DeLong, Las Cafeteras, Moses Campbell, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Dunes and more Photographer Jeff Koga shares this gallery from Saturday’s Silver Lake Jubilee. ...
@KRBronson on Saturday at the Silverlake Jubilee: The Silver Lake Jubilee proved to be the Little Festival That Could this weekend — the 3-year-old event staged by the Los Angeles Arts & Athletic...
“See My Eyes” remains one of the dreamiest slices of synth-pop we’ve heard this year. The track from the L.A. duo DWNTWN appears with a host of sonic bedfellows on the recently rele...
Kimbra Johnson, now mononymously known as Kimbra, brought some life to Hollywood Forever Cemetery when she returned to L.A. for a show in the majestic Masonic Lodge on Thursday night. Touting ...
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