Austin 2015
If it’s March, BUZZBANDS.LA must be coming to Texas.
BUZZBANDS.LA, Los Angeles’ leading website for music discovery, will host its fourth annual “Dear Austin, Love L.A.” day party on Wednesday, March 18, showcasing six top emerging artists from Southern California. The event, the seventh hosted or co-hosted by BBLA since 2009, will go off from noon to 6 p.m. at Bar 96 (96 Rainey St., Austin).
This year’s lineup features art-punks Sego, pop quintet Avid Dancer, anthemic rockers Northern American, indie-rockers Dear Boy, gypsy-folk outfit Kera & the Lesbians and “dirty classic rockers” Rainbow Jackson. Set times are listed below.
The party is free and no RSVP is required. BUZZBANDS.LA will be giving away free T-shirts and tote bags while they last.
BUZZBANDS.LA, founded in 2008 by former Los Angeles Times editor/writer Kevin Bronson, is an L.A.-centric blog that passionately covers the the city’s myriad music scenes. Bronson hosts weekly radio shows on listener-supported terrestrial station KCSN-FM and Internet outlet The Independent FM.
Past BUZZBANDS.LA showcases in Austin have featured the likes of Local Natives, Other Lives, Milo Greene, Hanni El Khatib, Cayucas, Linda Perry’s Deep Dark Robot, Dead Sara, PAPA, Caught a Ghost, the Henry Clay People, Fever the Ghost, the Lonely Wild and LA Font.
This year’s “Dear Austin, Love L.A.” is presented in conjunction with Heist or Hit Records and Culture Collide.
Set times
Noon — Rainbow Jackson
1PM — Kera & the Lesbians
2PM — Dear Boy
3PM — Northern American
4PM — Avid Dancer
5PM — Sego
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