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 [...]
May 26, 2010 | Categories: Los Angeles, Music | Tags: festival, indie, inide music, Jazz, Jazz Reggae festival, live music festival, live reggae, Los Angeles, Los Angeles live music, memorial day weekend, music festival, reggae, summer, UCLA | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
May 24, 2010 | Categories: Los Angeles, Music | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
May 05, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Berkeley, Best of Downtown LA, comedy tour, concert, Culture, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, Flight of the Conchords, hollywood bowl, Hollywood Bowl concerts, indie, LA Artwalk, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles comedy, Los Angeles summer concerts, New Zealand, summer concerts, summer shows, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la | Leave A Comment »
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 Maxwell, [...]
May 05, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, artist commune, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, California landmarks, Culture, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, hidden Los Angeles landmarks, hippies, historical marker, HM 157, Horace P Dibble House, LA Artwalk, Lincoln Heights, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles landmarks, Silver Phail, Soft Bombs, strange LA, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, weird Los Angeles, Whispering Pines | Leave A Comment »
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.
May 05, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, LAbuzz, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, concert, Culture, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, indie, jam, LA Artwalk, live music, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles music, Music, rock, show, silverlake, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, underground | Leave A Comment »
You like Avi Buffalo, right? Those plucky kids from the mean streets of Long Beach have recently soared to indie rock fame, quickly becoming everyone’s darling. The newest huge news is that they’re opening for Modest Mouse for five dates in July (yay!), and the freshest slice is their record release party at the Troubadour [...]
Apr 30, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, Avi Buffalo, Avi Buffalo record release, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, Brooklyn, Culture, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, Habonim Dror, Jessie Rifkin, LA Artwalk, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles live music, record release, record release party, Sunset Strip, The Troubadour, The Wailing Wall, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, troubadour, underground, Voices Voices, weekend | 1 Comment »
Chiche Libre, the psychedelic surf cumbia band straight out of Brooklyn descended upon Los Angeles to spread their laid-back grooves this past Friday at El Cid. If there was any doubt that these Brooklyn boys could throw down in this cumbia-heavy town, they quickly cast all doubts aside to make room for their booty-shaking show. [...]
Apr 26, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, Bloody Tiki, Chicha Libre, concerts, Culture, Culture DTLA, cumbia, cumbia music, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, El Cid, LA Artwalk, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles tiki bars, Peruvian cumbia, Peruvian music, psychedelic cumbia, silverlake, Silverlake bars, Silverlake live music, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, tiki bars, Tiki Ti, Very Be Careful | 1 Comment »
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: CULTURE, Music | Tags: Angels, art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, Brooklyn, Chicha Libre, Culture, Culture DTLA, cumbia, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, El Cid, LA Artwalk, latin music, Los angeles artwalk, 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, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, Very Be Careful | 1 Comment »
Soup Kitchen Rocks, the collective of misfits who put on some of the best underground shows in all of LA is doing it again this Sunday at the Talking Stick in Venice, and they’re throwing it down chick-style with a mainly girl line-up. This kitty’s got claws, though. Fierce ladies like Mather Louth, Jessie Payo, [...]
Apr 20, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, Culture, Culture DTLA, Diamonds Under Fire, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, Electric Children, film screenings, films, girl rock, Guitar Player Magazine, indie films, Jayme Langford, Jessie Payo, LA Artwalk, Lady Gaga, live music, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles events, Lupe Fiasco, Marilyn Manson, Masque Films, Mather Louth, Nirvana, punk, Radio Noir, rockabilly, S.O.U.P Kitchen, Sandra Powers, SOUP Kitchen rocks, Soup Kitchen Rocks 7, Soup Kitchen Rocks 8, Soup Kitchen Rocks 9, Talking Stick, The Black Eyed Peas, The Talking Stick, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, Vans Off the Wall, venice, Venice events, Viva Las Vegas | 1 Comment »
This Tuesday’s event at the Airliner features Pierre de Reeder (of Rilo Kiley) and Mister Nervous
Apr 12, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: band, concert, folk, folk rock, folkadelic, folkchedelic, guitar, indie, Los Angeles, MisterNervous, Music, nightlife, party, power trio, songwriter, Wes | 1 Comment »
Indie record label Arsenal has just released “New Tales To Tell – A Tribute to Love and Rockets” to the masses. Love and Rockets are one of those bands that are legendary in the deep gothic/alternative crowd, whose fans have rewarded them with years and years of loyalty, but remain still on the fringes of [...]
Apr 08, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers, Arsenal, Arsenal Rock N Roll, Bauhaus, Better Than Ezra, Black Francis, compilation album, Dandy Warhols, Dubfire, electro, goth music, gothic, Halloween Jack, indie, Love and Rockets, Love and Rockets tribute, Monster Magnet, Music, Puscifer, Snowden, The Flaming Lips, tribute, tribute album | Leave A Comment »
The Hear Noho Festival is a music showcasing emerging artists in small, intimate venues in North Hollywood, happening the first Thursday of every month. Five bands performed between the Cella Gallery and the NoHo Arts Center. The first band, The Restless Monsters played at the Cella Gallery first. While musically a cross between Hall and [...]
Apr 04, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: Al Slavik, Aria Johnson, Cella Gallery, concert, Hear Noho, Jerome Prieur, Jessie Payo, live concert, live music, music festival, NoHo Arts Center, NoHo music festival, North Hollywood, North Hollywood live music, Restless Monsters, WB Fontenot, Wiley Wallace | 1 Comment »
LA Buzz Blog favorite band, Hollywood Kill recently played the afterparty for the Black Eyed Peas concert at the Staples Center this past Tuesday night. The afterparty at the Conga Room promised to be an electro-clash dream, featuring Dip Dive, Letron, The Cataracs, Little Red Radio, Black Eyed Peas crowd favorite, LMFAO, and of course, [...]
Apr 03, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: Black Eyed Peas, Black Eyed Peas concert, Crimes of Passion, Dip Dive, Dipdive, downtown Los Angeles, electro clash, electroclash, Greg Tamura, Hollywood Kill, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Letron, Little Red Radio, LMFAO, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles music, retro electro, Staples Center | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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 »
Mister Nervous is at the Silver Factory Studios this SUNDAY 3/28 with our friends Rocking Horse People and Megasapien
Mar 26, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: concert, Downtown LA, indie, jam, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles music, Music, party, pop, rock, show, underground | Leave A Comment »
Death Hymn Number 9 is one of the most exciting bands to come out of the OC in a long, long time. They’ve got the bluegrass country garage punk sound going on – the kind you’d hear in emanating from the back of some run-down wooden shack in a forgotten town in West Virginia. And [...]
Mar 25, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz, Music | Tags: A Friend of Yours Production, Alice and the White Hair, Death Hymn Number 9, Hollywood concert, Hollywood live music, Hollywood nightlife, Inzauma, Jeff McDonald, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles Soup Kitchen, Michael Angelo Galasso, Samuel Cahill, Sebastian Zelepin, Soup Kitchen Los Angeles, SOUP Kitchen rocks, The Midnight Scene, The Terrapin, The Unknown Theater | 1 Comment »
From the hills of Alta Dena where the air is justa little clearer and the altitude justa little higher the SUNDOWNERS music will probably remind you of a lot of things but it’ll never sound even slightly derivative.
Mar 15, 2010 | Categories: Music, Parties | Tags: concert, Hollywood, indie, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles live music, party, rock, show | 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 »
The Robotanists have just finished their album of covers inspired by Los Angeles, called Shapes and Variations (available on Itunes on April 6, and on CD on March 30). What these clever robot botanists have done is taken popular, in some cases much overplayed songs, and changed the lyrics up to make it about LA, [...]
Feb 28, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz, Music | Tags: AIDS Project LA, Alicia Keys, Black Keys, Bryan Adams, INXS, Jay-Z, Joe Jackson, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles songs, Lykke Li, Phillp Glass, songs about Los Angeles, The Robotanists, The Roxy LA, Uncovering The Cure | 3 Comments »
One of the hardest working bands in LA OLIN and the MOON are either performing, recording, rehearsing, partying or unconscious.
Feb 28, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz, Music | Leave A Comment »
Every Sunday morning DJ Octoon arrives at the UCLA radio studios at a bright and way-too-early hour (for most partyin’ indie rock fans) to crank up his show: “I’m in a Band..”
Feb 26, 2010 | Categories: Art, Culture, LAbuzz, Music | Leave A Comment »
