Los Angeles may or may not be the capital of cumbia outside of Mexico, but one of the best cumbia bands stateside, by far is Chicha Libre. I generally like cumbia, I don’t absolutely love it, but Chicha Libre’s music challenges me on this notion, and I’m real close to absolutely loving Chicha Libre-style cumbia. [...]
Apr 22, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: Angels, Brooklyn, Chicha Libre, cumbia, El Cid, latin music, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles live music, Mexican cumbia, Mexican music, Peruvian Amazon, Peruvian cumbia, Peruvian music, psychedelic cumbia, Silverlake concerts, Silverlake live music, Silverlake music, surf rock, Very Be Careful | 1 Comment »
TONIGHT, people! It’s the Hear Noho Music Festival, featuring emerging artists in small, intimate venues. Get out there and become someone’s new fan!
Tonight features the Restless Monsters, Al Slavik, Aria Johnson, Jessie Payo and Ken Christianson at The Noho Arts Center and Cella Gallery. Hear Noho is held on the first Thursday of every month, [...]
Apr 01, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: Al Slavik, Aria Johnson, Cella Gallery, Hear NoHo Music Festival, indie bands, indie LA, indie Los Angeles, indie music, Jessie Payo, Ken Christianson, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles indie, Los Angeles indie scene, Los Angeles music, NoHo Arts Center, Restless Monsters | Leave A Comment »
Hollywood Kill, one of the best indie retro-electro groups to come out of LA in a long, long time, is climbing the ladder of musicdom! We have followed this band since they were playing parking lot indie vendor swap meets and backyard parties in Glendale – and that was a mere few years ago! They’ve [...]
Mar 29, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: after party, Benny Cassette, Black Eyed Peas, Bongo Room, Dev, Electrolightz, Hollywood Kill, Hybrid XL, Letron, Little Red Radio, LMFAO, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles music, S.O.U.P Kitchen, SOUP Kitchen rocks, Staples Center, Tara Ellis, The Cataracs, Will. I. Am. | Leave A Comment »
Continuing in the aural tradition of Vaud and the Villians, Mather Louth and Radio Noir, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Cirque Berzerk; multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer Mark Growden brings back the dark big band soul of old whiskey drinkers and scalawags in his new album release “Saint Judas”, whose national record release party is being [...]
Mar 14, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: Americana, Andrew Bird, blues, caberet, concert, Devendra Banhardt, Hollywood, Hotel Cafe, Jazz, Kurt Weill, Leonard Cohen, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles record release, Mark Growden, Mather Louth, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Raputina, record release, underground, Vaud and the Villians | Leave A Comment »
I checked out the Rock n’ Roll Fantasy Camp show at the Key Club the other night, not knowing what to expect. I heard Bret Michaels and Kip Winger would be there, and all my endless hours of watching Metal Mania at 2am prompted me to somehow think this would be cool. Or at least [...]
Mar 02, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Bloody Holly, Bret Michaels, Bulldozer, concert, Hollywood, Kip Winger, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles musicians, Metallica, Michael Anthony, Mike Patton, Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, Rock n' Roll Fantasy Camp, rock star, Steel Cactus, The Unlikelies, Too Big To Fail, Van Halen | 1 Comment »
After a long, long, long, wait, you can wait for the long-awaited SOUP Kitchen 7 no more! SOUP Kitchen 7 features, once again, the absolute best in LA’s emerging art, music, and film, performed live right before your very eyeballs!
SOUP Kitchen 7 @ Neon Venus Theater
7023 Melrose Ave @ La Brea (by Pink’s!)
Saturday, Jan. 23, [...]
Jan 20, 2010 | Categories: Art, Culture, Music, Parties | Tags: Art, Brooke Trout, Bumtech, festival, film, free, indie, jam, Jeff Klarin, live music, Liz Brizzi, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles Soup Kitchen, Music, Neon Venus, party, Pink's Hot Dogs, pop, Push to Transmit, Rebecca Johnson, rock, S.O.U.P Kitchen, Saturday, Shakey Graves, show, SOUP Kitchen 7, Stoned Koalas, techno, The Anchormen, The Big Bad, Totally Serious, underground | Leave A Comment »
It’s what Baccanalia is all about – a swirling festival of art, live music, live painting, art installations, with cheese and wine flowing all around. The Daydream Republic has started off 2010 with a bang, moving into a bigger space at 4500 West Jefferson – remember the tiny gallery space they had in 2009 on [...]
Jan 12, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz | Tags: art party, Bacchanal, Cannibal Flower, concert, Crystal Sylver, Culver City, Culver City art, Culver City art opening, Culver City nightlife, Daydream Republic, indie, John Culqui, Lane Shih, Laura Diamond, LC, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art party, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles nightlife, Mason Quality, Meterhead, Mr. Numberonderful, Music, NS David, Prince Parise, Projections/Orgone, Saturday, Shady Hasty, show, techno, Thinkspace, underground, Uri Averbuch, Vladimir Zimakov | Leave A Comment »
In my estimation, Area 33 was the place to be for NYE in LA. At any point in the night. This new venue in Culver City seems like it could very well be the replacement Space Island, or at least that’s what I hoped. Space Island was such a cool venue, with 3 separate DJ [...]
Jan 02, 2010 | Categories: Culture, Music | Tags: Area 33, art party, burners, Burning Man, Culver City, dance party, DJ, DJ Imagika, live DJs, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles burners, Los Angeles Burning Man, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles dance party, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles parties, New Year's Eve, Space Island, underground, underground parties | Leave A Comment »
If you haven’t heard of Jen Gloeckner, you need to. There’s something about the way her dreamy music comes together that makes it altogether unique and completely fresh. I recently got my hands on her 15-track CD, Mouth of Mars – an entirely beautiful collection of songs like the voices of delicate hidden curios telling [...]
Dec 30, 2009 | Categories: Culture, Music | Tags: 5 2nd Thrill, Bailing Water, best new musician, Burn Me, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Come in My Garden, concert, Die, dream music, dream world, ethereal, Free at Last, Haunt You, Henry's Dream, Jen Gloeckner, Kelly Ali, Let's Get Honest, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles music, Lullaby, Mars Volta, Mouth of Mars, new music, new musician, new musicians, Nick Cave, Peace Among the Chaos, Portishead, Pulse, Sleep to Dream, Sneaker Pimps, Stevie Nicks, Tender Prey, underground, unknown musician | 7 Comments »
The Evening of Sinister Amusement at Hollywood’s Unknown Theatre was a little sinister, a little amusing, and all in all some great entertainment. After a long, long, (maybe I got there too early?) long time to get started, in which I was subject to way too much Ramones, the night finally opened with films by [...]
Dec 24, 2009 | Categories: Music, Parties | Tags: Art, art party, Burning Man, Dime Museum, Evening of Sinister Amusement, Hollywood, indie, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles live performance, Mather Louth, noir theater, Radio Noir, rock, Sandra Powers, show, Timur, underground, Unknown Theater | Leave A Comment »
For all you Facebookers (Facebookians? Facebookites?) the LA Buzz Blog is now on Facebook! Become a fan today and get to-the-minute updates of all our awesome posts. By becoming a fan of Facebook, you’ll finally be “that kid”, the one on the block who always knows of the newest and most cutting-edge music, arts & [...]
Nov 15, 2009 | Categories: LAbuzz | Tags: art party, Beverly Hills, Culver City, dance clubs, Downtown LA, downtown Los Angeles, Echo Park, Facebook, Fashion, food, Highland Park, hip-hop, Inglewood, LA State Historic Park, live music, Los Angeles art, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles bars, Los Angeles clubs, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles nightlife, Los Angeles Restaurants, Museum Mile, Music, nightlife, S.O.U.P Kitchen, Santa Monica, silverlake, social network, southern California, venice, Viper Room, West Hollywood | Leave A Comment »
Jaguares, one of the most internationally well-known Mexican rock bands, is coming to the Hollywood Palladium this Friday, Nov. 13. You may also know of Caifanes, one of the other most internationally well-known Mexican rock bands. They’re more or less the same band! So even though Caifanes is now defunct, you can still see two-ish [...]
Nov 09, 2009 | Categories: Culture, LAbuzz | Tags: Caifanes, Hollywood, Jaguares, live music Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concerts, Mexican rock, Palladium, rock en espanol, Saul Hernandez | Leave A Comment »
Remember back in …maybe 2000, 2001, when the Strokes first hit big, and garage rock took off for the first time since 1976? There was a slew of bands to follow in their footsteps, none to ever quite reach the proportions of the Strokes. The Hives came close in my estimation, and the Vines came close in [...]
Nov 08, 2009 | Categories: Music | Tags: Downtown Palace Theatre, Julian Casablancas, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, November concerts, NYC garage rock, the Palace LA, The Strokes | Leave A Comment »
He’s just so goshdarned meek! I’ve never been a fan of Moby, but I will admit his music is pretty good to work to. I worked in a jewelry store once where the only CD we could find in the store was the one where Moby re-did all the old gospel songs, and we played [...]
Oct 07, 2009 | Categories: Music | Tags: Los Angeles, Los Angeles concerts, Moby, Moby Los Angeles, NYC, rock concert, Teany, techno, The Wiltern, trance music, trance pop | Leave A Comment »
Pearl Jam is still alive. They’ve always been lurking in the back of every rock-based music scene since they were second-runner up to Nirvana in the grunge popularity contest in the 1990s. It looked for a minute like they were going to go the way of Neil Young musically and die a quiet, acoustic and [...]
Sep 27, 2009 | Categories: Music | Tags: Ben Harper, concert, grunge, live music, Los Angeles concerts, Pearl Jam, Relentless 7, rock concerts | 2 Comments »
