Waving so long to 2018 with belated nods to releases from Emma Ruth Rundle, Moon Diver, Crash Richard, Chris Price, Kenan Bell, Ken Sharp, Ronny Morris, Tropa Magica, Frankel and Ghostel.
Songs from Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Midnight Faces, Baby Alpaca, Frankel, the Velopheliacs, Raw Fabrics and more on Buzz Bands LA’s weekly mixtape.
Frankel, the nom de tune of shy-but-not-retiring songwriter Michael Orendy, has a new EP. You should hear all 18 minutes of it. We mean it.
He is Michael Orendy, the occasionally reclusive songwriter who, in odd-numbered years since 2007, has released three albums of gorgeous, orchestrated pop as Frankel. She is Ariana Murray, who has been one of the driving forces in long-running L.A. indie-rock band Earlimart. They are married. So maybe their new collaboration, Paw City, was inevitable. Their […]
A more eclectic lineup you would be hard-pressed to find: The Quick Hellos, 7Horse, Frankel and Jack Burnside join the fun on Dec. 13 at Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe in Echo Park. The Quick Hellos’ acoustic set will come courtesy of ukulele-wielding Dan Crane and Glen Martin from the […]
Gorgeous and gentle atmospheric pop music is always a guarantee from L.A. artist Michael Orendy, aka Frankel. He’s intoxicated us with sweetly swelling orchestrations on his two previous albums “Lullabys for the Passersby” and “Anonymity Is the New Fame,” and he’s preparing to offer his latest collection of gems in form of “Sugar Twists Like […]
[Birthday greetings to Earlimart/Admiral Radley keyboardist-singer Ariana Murray. Now, on to our steamy agenda for the evening:] It’s Week 3 of the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum (curated by this very blog), and it’s going to get hot. Doors at 7 for KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad, followed by local soul […]
Music doesn’t feel so much like a business to Evan Slamka these days, and the Los Angeles singer-songwriter likes it just fine. With his new quintet Square on Square, Slamka has emerged from three-plus years of personal reflection and creative regeneration that followed the dissolution of Majorie Fair, which released one excellent album (“Self Help […]
The Happy Hollows [pictured at the Eagle Rock Music Festival] have signed to Los Angeles-based independent label Autumn Tone Records, which in November will give wider release to the trio’s self-birthed debut “Spells.” The highly regarded (in Buzz Bands land, anyway) album will be released both digitally and physically, under Autumn Tone’s new deal with […]
File under synchronicity: Over the course of a 24-hour period this week, I was e-mailed, or stumbled upon, three cover songs performed by Los Angeles bands. All are interesting takes on the originals, so I thought I’d share. First, indie-pop quintet You Me & Iowa [pictured] delivering a surprisingly harmonic version of the Troggs’ hit […]
