After a couple of years of mostly DIY releases and entirely fun live shows, Tapioca & the Flea are no more. But principals Samuel Jacob-Lopez and Ronnie Watson have rebooted as Little Wolves, and fans who hungered for more of TATF’s trippy synth-pop won’t be disappointed. The duo’s first single, “Home,” finds Jacob-Lopez back in […]
There are elegant chandeliers above the stage in the Champagne Room at Taix restaurant, and during a few of the sets on the Buzz Bands LA Stage on Saturday at Echo Park Rising, you worried for their health. Plenty of show-stealing transpired over the course of the afternoon and evening, and the highlights were many: […]
Harmony-rich indie-poppers Hunter Hunted will headline this year’s Tarfest, the free, all-ages music and arts festival at La Brea Tar Pits Park on Saturday, Sept. 20. The 12th annual festival on the Miracle Mile, which runs from 1 to 8 p.m., features four more of L.A.’s top emerging musical acts – the Moth & the Flame, […]
Berlin featuring Terri Nunn and Sweet & Tender Hooligans will be joined by the likes of Beware of Darkness, Jessica Childress, Shana & the Hooligans, Tapioca & the Flea, Irontom, Well Hung Heart and Queen Caveat at this year’s Lobsterfest, which brings three days of music to Port O’ Call Village in San Pedro on […]
Echo Parking Rising, the free neighborhood festival that has announced its extension from two days to three days, is happening on Friday, Aug. 15 through Sunday Aug. 17, and Buzz Bands LA is once again privileged to be curating one stage during the festival, in the Champagne Room at Taix Lounge. This year, we present 10 […]
Incoming: Lykke Li, Coldplay, James Blunt, Phil Beaudreau, Their/They’re/There, Banta, Eliza Rickman, Hozier, King Washington, DevilDriver, Band of Skulls, Nickel Creek, Melpo Mene, Dreamland, Wake Owl, Dead Sara, Gabrielle Aplin, Our Last Summer, Us the Duo, Jenny Lewis, Mr. Elevator & the Brain Hotel, Black Flag, Ledisi and the Robert Glasper Experiment, Gesaffelstein, Ty Dolla […]
Happy Saturday: ‣ Tapioca & the Flea, White Dove, Breakfast, Anny Celsi, Tony Gilkyson, Lisa Finnie and many more team up for the South Pasadena Eclectic Music Festival ‣ And if you’re looking for a festival for the kids, Moby, Laura Marling, Dylan Gardner and Roger Ballender will be singing songs for kids at the LA Family […]
Tapioca & the Flea’s cherub electro-pop has been a work in progress for about three years now, since Samuel Jacob-Lopez busted out of Orange County with three pals, a synthesizer and a pocket full of woozy melodies. Now the latest single from Jacob-Lopez (along with guitarist Ronnie Watson, bassist/keyboardist Frank Alva and drummer Matt McClanahan) […]
Incoming: Alt 98.7 Rooftop Party, Holychild, Lissie, Freedy Johnston, Jay Z, Emilie Autumn, Brian Posehn, Brand New, Tapioca & the Flea, the Head and the Heart, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Climbers, the Silent Comedy, Samantha Pearl, the Olms, the Maine, the Mowgli’s, Merle Haggard, Banks, Basia Bulat, Realities, the Visitors, Ari Hest, Third Eye […]
Incoming: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, De Lux, Cat Power, Froth, VUM, the Wild Reeds, Xiu Xiu, BLEAUX, Entrance Band, Sam Smith, Howie Day, Tapioca & the Flea, Mikal Cronin, Redd Kross, Pretty Lights, Beyonce, Pusha T, Bright Light Bright Light, LA Font, Conquistador, Every Time I Die, Mirror Days, Problem, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, the […]