Circa Survive at Magnet
Circa Survive is one of those bands that gets swept into a music era, defined by a certain sound. A few bands, Thrice and Coheed and Cambria in this instance (and maybe you’re old enough to remember Thursday, who fizzled a little too quickly?), tend to take center stage and headline the festivals, while bands [...]
Amanda Jo Williams at Mountain Bar
“Country girl from outer space” Amanda Jo Williams has been winning over Angelinos with her uncanny ability to project an unfiltered open heart through her cartoonishly vulnerable voice and her spare elemental compositions
Sunset Strip Music Festival
If there’s anything the Sunset Strip is known for, it’s aging rockers, past-their-prime venues, and an overall sense that the ’80s still live on in the hearts of many. This Saturday, Aug. 28, come down to the Sunset Strip Music Festival to celebrate the Sunset Strip at its finest.
This year, the Saturday street fest brings [...]
Flink Festival – Berlin
Small festivals have been popping up in Berlin all summer long and they are just as worth the effort to go to as much as the bigger ones are. Alternative venue Lovelite was host to Flink Festival at their two staged venue with a great outdoor hang out area last night.
It didn’t matter that the [...]
Sunset Junction Is Here!
Everyone knows about it, and you either love it or hate it, but this year’s Sunset Junction Street Fair, scheduled to take place this weekend, promises to be one of the best in years, judging from the line-up of music acts. It just might be worth the ticket price this year!
The most notable acts include [...]
Rooney announce Berlin date
Watch out Berlin, there’s an invasion of LA rock-pop by the name of Rooney making a beeline straight for Germany in October.
The five piece band, fronted by actor/singer-songwriter Robert Schwartzman have announced seven tour dates in Germany, with the first stop being in Kreuzberg’s reliable indie-rock venue Lido.
Rooney have been touring around the States [...]
Wild Nothing @ Bang Bang Club
I’m excited that I have something I want to do this Monday other than go to Madame Claude’s to see another musician making odd noises, great and all as it is. One of my favourite albums to appear this year is Wild Nothing’s debut indie-pop album Gemini and they’re hitting up Berlin’s Bang Bang Club [...]
Pogue My Arse
The Pogues. It’s actually quite the romantic name in its purist sense as the Gaelic aural translation for ‘The Kisses’. Of course, the scruffy alcoholic Shane MacGowan didn’t mean it like that. The band was initially called ‘Pogue Mahone’ – which is another aural Gaelic pun, meaning ‘Kiss My Arse’. Now that’s more like the [...]
Chicha Libre at Haus der Kulturen der Welt – Berlin
It’s no secret that the LA Buzz Blog loves Chicha Libre, no matter where they are in the world. And this summer, they’ve made a super-special trip out to Haus der Kulturen der Welt to bring their psychedelic Peruvian cumbia straight to the heart of Berlin. Originally, Chicha Libre hails from Brooklyn, but they’ve played [...]
Jovanotti at the Santa Monica Pier – Los Angeles
For all you Italio-philes who love Jovanotti or even know who he is, rejoice! The advent of the international rappers has come! He will be making his Los Angeles debut on the Santa Monica Pier tomorrow – tonight he’s playing at the Viper Room, along with Chilean-French rapper Ana Tijoux.
There’s just something so refreshing about [...]
The Jackets Swing the Bassy Club – Berlin
The Jackets from Bern played the Bassy Club last week, and tore up the stage, 60’s revival-style with almost-matching black outfits with white trim. I had only heard the Jackets previously on Myspace, and somehow though they had a bit more of a 60’s groove. So the inner punk rawker in me was thrilled to [...]
Go Folk Yourself Silly with James Apollo – Los Angeles
One of the coolest still-surviving music stores in LA, Origami Vinyl is hosting a folk rock double header on July 24, and your wallet will be happy to hear that both shows are free.
The first show is at 4pm, featuring folk rocker James Apollo, who tugs at Americana’s heartstrings with hobbled, broken-hearted blues and some [...]
Thomas Pridgen, Ex-Mars Volta at The Airliner
Thomas Pridgen at the Airliner on a Sunday night, hmm? After three years with the explosive talents in Mars Volta, Pridgen has decided to part ways and focus on a project of his envisioning, like everyone else in Mars Volta. He played on the albums Bedlam in Goliath and Octahedron, and was called out many [...]
The Roads at White Trash Fast Food – Berlin
So all paths apparently lead to The Roads, a band relatively new to the Berlin scene, but has been building a strong following in the UK for years with their infectious pop rock gems and epic waves of sound. I caught their first set at White Trash Fast Food in Prenzlauer Berg. I walked into [...]
Fete De La Musique – Berlin
Fete De La Musique yesterday literally engulfed Berlin in music – you could not walk two steps without finding yourself in the middle of another concert, impromptu or otherwise. Centered around Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Neukoelln and hipper parts of Mitte, local and international European bands brought out the amps and kicked out the jams. [...]
Vaudevillian Opera through Bohemian Eyes: Timur and the Dime Museum
Timur and The Dime Museum are an operatic exploration of modern jazz and current tunes through a bohemian vaudeville looking glass. Covering songs from 1930s cabaret, Russian gypsy composer Vadim Kozin all the way to Radiohead and David Bowie, Timur and the Dime Museum present music as you’ve never heard it before, and most likely [...]
Soup Kitchen Rocks 10 Brings Indie Punk to CIA
Soup Kitchen is back once again with its eclectic anything-goes parties that celebrate all things art, music, film, and all things creative. This time, they’re throwing down at one of the weirdest places around, CIA in North Hollywood. Rest assured it’ll be one wild night full of off-the-wall music, indie animations, and just plain weird [...]
Hear NoHo Fest – The June Edition
If you’re looking to find the best in underground and undiscovered bands, look no further than the Hear Noho Music Fest!
Held on the first Thursday of every month, Hear Noho presents eclectic bands that you’ve never heard of in three walkable venues in North Hollywood.
This month, they’ve got 3 venues chock full of emerging artists [...]
UCLA’s Jazz Reggae Fest
With so many things going on this weekend, it’s hard to choose just one!
This Memorial Day Weekend brings about one of the coolest festivals around. The 2010 Jazz Reggae Festival is May 30 – 31, from 12 – 7pm, at the UCLA Intramural Field.
With an annual attendance of over 30,000 and performances from legendary artists [...]
Lightning in a Bottle 2010
The Do LaB Presents: Lightning in a Bottle 20105th annual music and arts festival to create sustainable dreamscape at OakCanyon Ranch, Irvine, May 28 – 31
This Memorial Day weekend, the music, arts and greenliving worlds will converge at Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine, California forThe Do LaB’s 5th annual Lightning in a Bottle Festival on [...]
Flight of the Conchords Take Off at the Hollywood Bowl
Indie darlings Flight of the Conchords will for sure pack the Hollywood Bowl on May 30, so be sure to get your tickets early. From their TV show of the same name, these guys will be performing all their deadpan songs and inspire many an ironic laugh. New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella [...]
Silver Phail at HM 157
What’s HM 157? It’s not some new hipster hangout in the depths of Echo Park, it’s Historic Marker #157, silly! “Historic Monument No. 157 is a mildly rundown old Victorian in East L.A. How it became a hub for hipsters, artists and people of all ages is due to its quirky inhabitants, Brother Reid [...]
Spirit Vine at Spaceland
SPIRIT VINE conjures a retro-future where folks still read The Doors of Perception, seek enlightenment in shaman directed spiritual sweat-lodges and go Bathing at Baxters.
