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The transatlantic duo of Michael Feerick (Amusement Parks on Fire) and Micah Calabrese (Giant Drag) return with a blissed-out 6 minutes of popgazing.
The transatlantic duo of Michael Feerick (Amusement Parks on Fire) and Micah Calabrese (Giant Drag) return with a blissed-out 6 minutes of popgazing.
This is one moment we are more than happy to answer your “Where Are They Now?” query. Michael Feerick is the singer-guitarist in U.K. shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire, who’ve largely been silent since 2010 or so. Micah Calabrese was drummer, keyboardist and life preserver with Annie Hardy in Giant Drag. Together, they are now […]
It’s been too long since we’ve heard from Nico Stai, who has teased with talk of a full-length album since his last EP a couple of years ago. Stai will preview material from that forthcoming record on Nov. 8 when he heads up the lineup for Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 […]
More than one participant – and even the attendees felt like participants – at Saturday night’s Tribute to the Movies likened the affair to an Irish wake. There were songs and drinks and tears and photos and video projections, and all of it was very good, if not cathartic. The Movies, beloved Silver Lakers whose […]
[The weekend’s Culture Collide festival was all about sampling wares from all over the globe. You couldn’t get to everything, but your faithful Buzz Bands honcho, along with contributors David McKay and Addy Danti, submit these quick impressions from Friday night. Photo gallery from the Echo/Echoplex sets by Laurie Scavo.] Who: The Besnard Lakes In […]
[John Lennon would have turned 70 tomorrow. Go to Google and press play.] Top 8 artists I’d be excited about seeing this weekend at the Culture Collide festival [background, schedule] if I could be everywhere at once: ‣ The Besnard Lakes, Land of Talk, Klaxons, the Boxer Rebellion [pictured], Amusement Parks on Fire, El Guincho, […]
U.K. shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire became honorary Silver Lakers during the year or so they spent recording in Los Angeles, and you can hear a little of the neighborhood’s finest, Silversun Pickups, in APOF’s new album “Road Eyes” (due Oct. 5). Searing guitars, big choruses, ear-splitting effects – it’s an updated slice of heaven […]
[We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.] Haven’t had a chance until now to tout the new Cave Singers’ sophomore album, “Welcome Joy” [download below], a nice slice of laid-back folk that came out in August. The Seattle band hits the Echo tonight. … Swedish quartet Sahara Hotnights kind of vanished from my radar […]
Happy Mondays were pioneers in fusing psychedelic rock and soul with house music, becoming a standard-bearer of the club culture-mad Manchester scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s. The heyday of the Factory Records period was depicted in the movie “24 Hour Party People,” which got its name from a Happy Mondays hit. Those […]
It was a night for big guitars Monday – and, as it happened, big turnouts. The Buzz Bands LA celebration at the Echoplex featured a foursome of bands whose fervent indie rock played well to a crowd that exceeded 400. The Broken Remotes kicked off the night with a set of buzzsaw, rhythm-heavy rockers. Amusement […]