Stream: The Ruby Friedman Orchestra, ‘I’m Not Your Friend’
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The long-awaited album from the Ruby Friedman Orchestra, “Gem,” arrives June 24, and she squeezes every ounce of drama out of the murder ballad “I’m Not Your Friend.”
Gallery: Ruby Friedman Orchestra, the Lonely Wild and the New Limb at the Federal Bar in NoHo
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The Ruby Friedman Orchestra launched the new monthly live music series presented by KCSN and Buzz Bands LA in audacious fashion on Tuesday night, and it wasn’t just her shoes. With her full-throttle vocals soaring, Friedman and her band delivered an hour of exhilarating diva-rock to a big crowd at the Federal Bar in North […]
Tonight in L.A.: The Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Tenacious D, Jason Falkner, Blondfire, HOTT MT
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We show July the door in a very big way: ‣ The Ruby Friedman Orchestra, the Lonely Wild and the New Limb kick off the new KCSN/Buzz Bands LA live music series at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood. Doors at 8. ‣ Tenacious D wind up a long tour behind their new album “Rize […]
The Week Ahead: July 30-August 5
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Incoming: Hard Summer 2012, the New L.A. Folk Fest, Kelly Clarkson, Neon Trees, Andy Clockwise, the Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Tenacious D, Jason Falkner, the Mynabirds, Best Coast, Tears for Fears, TV on the Radio, Grouplove, Real Estate, the Belle Brigade, Beachwood Sparks, the Bangles, Tempest and more. Above: Chrysta Bell, the singer who collaborated with […]
Ruby Friedman Orchestra, the Lonely Wild and the New Limb to kick off KCSN/Buzz Bands LA series
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The Ruby Friedman Orchestra, joined by two of the city’s brightest up-and-coming indie bands the Lonely Wild and the New Limb, will kick off a new live music series on Tuesday, July 31, at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood. Co-presented by KCSN (88.5 FM), Buzz Bands LA and the Federal Bar, the series is […]
BTW (Bands to Watch), 2012: 33 Los Angeles bands who figure to make our new year happy
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So as rich as 2011 proved to be for local music, 2012 promises even more. Following is Buzz Bands LA’s list of “Bands to Watch” for 2012 – 33 newbies who have not yet released a full-length album and are on our radar to do so in the coming year. Whom did I miss? Leave […]
Tonight in L.A.: Ellie Goulding, Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Priscilla Ahn
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A couple of Coachella standouts and a swarm of nice local shows on tonight’s slate: ‣ Fresh off a buzz-making performance at Coachella, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding had a big day in L.A.: She does a quick bit at the Grove at 6 p.m. as part of the Nike-sponsored She Runs LA, then runs off […]
Tonight in L.A.: Alice Russell, Nneka, Fol Chen, more
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[If you root through the archives, you find that Aug. 16 is a pretty momentous day in music history. Robert Johnson (1938) and Elvis Presley (1977) died on this day. Madonna (1958) and LL Cool J (1968) were born. Any headlines so far today?] Top 3 reasons to open your ears (and possibly wallet) tonight: […]
Tonight in L.A.: The Dead Weather, Gram Rabbit
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[Birthday greetings today to the legendary Kim Fowley …] Top 5 reasons tonight to go forth and conquer: ‣ Does anybody else think the Dead Weather’s video for “Blue Blood Blues” is not up to the usual Jack White/Third Man Records artistic standards? Oh, and White’s little quartet plays the Hollywood Palladium tonight. ‣ Gonna […]
Gram Rabbit makes its own ‘Miracles’
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In 2004, Gram Rabbit unveiled a debut album “Music to Start a Cult To.” The title was prescient. Six years later, the Joshua Tree quartet indeed has a cult following – but, mystifyingly, only that. Despite having released two more albums of some of the most far-thinking, far-out psychedelic disco around, membership in the “The […]
