Your monstrous Thursday show lineup: ‣ The Under the Influence of Music Tour wafts its way to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater featuring a lineup of Wiz Khalifa, A$AP Rocky, Smoke DZA, Chevy Woods, Joey Bada$$ and Berner. ‣ It’s the second week of the Twilight Concert Series, which brings free live music to the Santa […]
Incoming: The Neighbourhood, Wolfmother, Dessa, the Greyboy Allstars, the Cat Empire, Alabama Shakes, Matchbox Twenty, Sergio Mendes, Mayer Hawthorne, Belle & Sebastian, Fol Chen, White Arrows, Meshell Ndegeocello, Wiz Khalifa, Red Baraat, Passenger, the Dan Band, Pink Martini, Chinatown Summer Nights, Dillinger Escape Plan, Matthew Sweet, Rogue Wave, Heh Marseilles, Camper Van Beethoven, Shooter Jennings […]
Your fantastic Friday: ‣ The Lonely Wild celebrates the release of their new album “The Sun As It Comes” (out April 2 via Ursa Major) at the Satellite tonight and they’ve got the Janks and the Wild Reeds to join in the fun. ‣ Intellectual electro-heads Fol Chen also celebrate the release of a new album. They’ll headline […]
[With the new releases coming fast and furious in 2013, we’ve compiled six fresh tracks from notable artists here. Have at it:] Hanni El Khatib, “Penny” – Expanding from a two-piece to four and expanding his sound palette too, Hanni El Khatib will release his second album, the Dan Auerbach-produced “Head in the Dirt” on […]
Incoming: The Mavericks, Busdriver, Thalia, Heartless Bastards, Spirit Animal, Mika, Flux Pavilion, Inc., Anthrax, Billy Bragg, Ghostface Killah, Jamie Lidell, the Lonely Wild, Fol Chen, Foxygen, Daedelus, Veronica Falls, Poolside, Lalah Hathaway, Living Colour Above: That’s the video for “You Naked,” from Jamie Lidell. The British singer-songwriter’s latest album, “Jamie Lidell,” came out in February, […]
[While many South by Southwest goers flocked to Lady Bird Lake to catch a free show by Divine Fits, Jim James and the Flaming Lips, the Buzz Bands LA team stayed close to the 6th Street chaos to catch some of the baby bands. And the streets have never been so crowded considering it wasn’t […]
Fol Chen, L.A.’s merry band of sound collagists led by producers (the men known as) Samuel Bing and Julian Wass, return in March with their third collection of wonky, effects-laden pop. The band announced today that “The False Alarms” would be out March 19 on Asthmatic Kitty, the label that gave us Fol Chen’s “Part […]
Sunday’s merriment: ‣ Night 2 of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas boasts a lineup that includes Jane’s Addiction, the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Death Cab for Cutie and Noel Gallagher, along with the likes of Foster the People and Grouplove. The evening will be webcast right here. (P.S.: There’s an after-party at Hemingway’s where a […]
L.A. experimental pop outfit Fol Chen isn’t just developing new music, it’s developing a new music-making machine. The band fronted by Samuel Bing (aka Adam Goldman) has unveiled a device called the Tetrafol, a pyramid-shaped toy that emits electronic music (composed by Fol Chen) based on its physical orientation and movement. Strange, but true – […]
[Bronson is lost in the desert somewhere this week. We’re picking up some slack, so these posts might look a little different than usual:] Top 3 shows tonight: ‣ Deerhunter (above, the video for Diplo and Lunice remix of “Helicopter”) at the Music Box ‣ Apples in Stereo and Fol Chen at the Echoplex ‣ […]
