Incoming: Bruce Springsteen, Jake Bugg, Justin Bieber, Esperanza Spalding, Junior Boys, Murs, the Revivalists, Flogging Molly, Puscifer, Nick Waterhouse, New Order, Chairlift, Leon Bridges, Self Help Festival and more.
Also on Monday: No Win, Elle Belle, Carly & the Universe, Barleaux, Silverstein.
Featuring X, The Big Pink, James Bay, Dashboard Confessional, Atlas Genius, Tanlines, Miami Horror, Gary Clark Jr., Booker T. Jones, the Dandy Warhols, Sanctuary, Purity Ring, Parkway Drive, !!! (Chk Chk Chk) and much more.
Songs from Wages, Astra Heights, Dorothy, Sun Drug, Skylar Funk, Fiction Plane, Robert Francis and more in our weekly playlist of local artists we’ve covered on Buzz Bands LA.
Rejuvenated L.A. rockers Astra Heights return this week with a new full-length album, “Danger for Beginners.” The first single is a glam-inspired arena-rocker.
Tuesday things: ‣ John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival headlines a solo night at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ Legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac continues their tour over at the Honda Center in Anaheim. ‣ Lissie stops by the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery for an intimate show featuring new songs off her forthcoming […]
Their name might be a mouthful – Cannoneers of the New Command – but the music of the new L.A. quartet is easy to swallow: It’s garage rock ’n’ soul that harks back to the swaggering British bands of the early ’90s and to grittier ’70s before. Absent the current scene’s fetish for synths and […]
[Happy tax day. How many of you are spending your return on Coachella?] They’ve escaped Orange County for the friendly confines of NYC, but the Willowz are fondly remembered here. Their latest album “Everyone” came out in December (and maybe got lost in the pre-holiday shuffle), and it’s a howling-good collection of punky psych-rock that […]
The Morales brothers could feel resentful. The core members of the rock quintet Astra Heights moved to L.A. over five years ago and quickly got signed to Universal Records, only to have the release of their debut album bog down in a major-label quagmire. For two years they spun their wheels, the album “Good Problems” […]
My only quibble with “New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets” is the “tribute” part, which seems a bit presumptive. Call me stuffy, but only the truly seminal bands should get tributes; the good ones can be saluted, and the others, well, covered. In a decade-plus of tailoring the Bauhaus aesthetic to […]
