The Lassie Foundation, who have been busy getting their back catalog remastered and reissued, today released the “Cave Sessions” EP — four tracks, re-imagined. We caught up with Wayne Everett about getting the band back together after 20 years.
Just past the 25th anniversary of its release, “California” — the debut EP from West Coast popgazers The Lassie Foundation — gets a re-release today. (Yes, it’s finally on Spotify.)
Wayne Everett’s “Two Ghosts,” his first album since 2002, came out today. In the Buzz Bands LA interview, he chats about his internal conversations — including asking himself “How can I call myself a musician if I don’t make music?”
Buzzbands.LA revisits 2006 through a playlist, a good year for local flavor.
[Another in our series of holiday songs:] There’s something perfect about the people behind the Peanuts franchise soliciting a guy named Schroeder to cover the Vince Guaraldi/Lee Mendelson classic “Christmas Time Is Here.” Even if this particular Schroeder is known for his work with the guitar and not at the piano. Jeff Schroeder, the Orange […]
Young songwriter J. Irvin Dally, who followed up last fall’s excellent “Despistado” EP with the “Sun Room” single earlier this year, will play Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe on Tuesday, April 12. Dally will be joined by two bands currently sharing the same members – Soft Pipes and Miracle Parade. […]
L.A. shoegazers Sky Parade have been hard at work on the follow-up to 2008’s “High on Desire” EP – frontman Tommy Dietrick says the band’s new full-length, targeted for a Jan. 1 release, is “darker and more eccentric,” featuring contributions from new guitarist Scott Moran and a cameo from Smashing Pumpkins/Lassie Foundation guitarist Jeff Schroeder. […]
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 […]
The Buzz Bands-hosted party certainly isn’t the only show in town tonight, but, well, for selfish reasons I will tout it first. It’s a night of great guitar rock at the Echoplex – doors open at 8:30, with the Broken Remotes playing at 9, Amusement Parks of Fire at 10, the Lassie Foundation [pictured last […]
[File under “self-promotional:”] About nine months ago, to no fanfare whatsoever, I used my laptop and some change rescued from under the seats of my car to launch BuzzBands.LA, a blog that, in a manner, continued the column I did for the Los Angeles Times for seven years. I’ve been flattered by the attention and […]
