
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 [...]
Aug 20, 2010 | Categories: Los Angeles, Music | Tags: a Miles Davis tribute, Aurum, B-side Players, Bad Brains, Balandugu Kan, Big Daddy Kane, Bobo Meets Rhettamatu, Brent Bolthouse, Caroline D'amore, Division Minuscula, DJ Carlos Nino, DJ Dexterous, DJ Doc- Martin, Dj Eric cubeechee, DJ Eric Neutron, DJ Gusto, Dj Jeremy Sole, Dj Pelau, DJ Splyce, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Evelyn Champagne King, Fishbone, Fitz & The Tantrums, Freddie Poole, Ghostland Observatory, Girl in a Coma, hipster, Hyphy crunk, indie, indie music, Insite, Lee Scratch Perry, live indie music, live music, live music festival, Los Angeles festival, Maleco Collective, Mayer Hawthorne, Medusa, Meshell Ndegeocello, Orgone, Palenke Soul Tribe, Party Crash Feat. Dj Ruckus, Permanent Ability, Raheen Cohen, Ray Ricky Rivera, Rhythm Root Allstars, Rolling Radio, Saint Motel, Shiny Toy Guns, silverlake, Silverlake events, Silverlake festival, Silverlake live music, Speakers Junkies, Spellbound, Sunset Blvd, Sunset Junction, Sunset Junction festival, Sunset Junction party, The Ohio Players, The Whispers, Tsunami Coffeehouse, White Apple Tree | 1 Comment »

The Silver Lake Jubilee is a two-day music and art celebration located within the eclectic and bohemian Silver Lake. Hipsters rejoice! This festival features more than 50 trend-defining and trend-defying music acts, multi-disciplinary art, local artists and crafters, exquisite food from local restaurants and various cultural enclaves in the Silver Lake and surrounding communities. Kick [...]
May 19, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz | Tags: Amanda Jo Williams, Barry Holiday & The Remainers, Blue Jungle, Dirt Bird, Division Day, Eulogies, Foreign Born, Lilofee, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles live music, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Moses Campbell, music festival, Nico Stai, Radar Brothers, Seasons, Silver Lake Jubilee, silverlake, So Many Wizards, Spain, Spider Problem, Sweet Tony Beans, The Entrance Band, The Growlers, The Like, The Living Sisters, Tijuana Panthers, Voxhaul Broadcast, Walking Sleep | 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 »

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 »

Trader Vic’s is a time warp back to when tiki bars were synonymous with a stiff kind of cool that only a smoking-jacket kind of guy could enjoy. It looks like everything else in Hollywood – carefully researched and designed, and lovingly molded from the latest and greatest plastics. It’s like the Mars 2012 of [...]
Dec 17, 2009 | Categories: Culture, EAT DRINK | Tags: chicken skewers, Christmas, Christmas in LA, Downtown LA, Downtown LA restuarants, Gilligan's Island, LA bars, LA restaurants, Los Angeles, Los Angeles bars, Mars 2012, Rum Keg, seared tuna, silverlake, Staples Center, tiki drinks, tiki restaurant, Tiki Ti, tikidom, Trader Vic's, Trader Vic's LA, wontons | 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 »

The Faraway Places are rollin’ into Mister Ts Bowl ( 5621 1/2 N Figueroa St LA 90042) TONIGHT (9/25)
Sep 25, 2009 | Categories: Culture, LAbuzz, Music, Parties | Tags: Art, concert, concerts, Downtown LA, festival, free, Highland Park, Hollywood, live music, Los Angeles, party, pop, rock, Saturday, show, silverlake, underground | 1 Comment »

Push to Transmit is one of those bands that you ask yourself, “Why haven’t I heard of these guys before?” One listen to “Vampires of Emotion” and you’ll try to remember what Indie 103.1 show you heard them on. With one of the most unique voices we’ve heard in a long time, and the soaring, [...]
Aug 05, 2009 | Categories: Music | Tags: August 8, concert, Echo Park, events, Highland Park, indie, Juanita's, local bands, Los Angeles, Music, North East LA, punk, Push to Transmit, rock, S.O.U.P Kitchen, Saturday, silverlake, SOUP Kitchen 6, The Airliner | Leave A Comment »

Peaches is back! With a new album called I Feel Cream. Somewhere, Peaches is giggling like a schoolchild all the way to the bank because she’s making the media say all kinds of f’d up, sexual innuendo things. But she is all-out awesome, so you have to write about her, her music, and all the [...]
May 28, 2009 | Categories: Music | Tags: Henry Fonda, hipster, Joshua Tree, Musicbox, Peaches, silverlake | Leave A Comment »

Newly merged gay publication Frontiers in LA has posted their Best Gay in LA poll online. These are the Academy Awards of WeHo … no joke. Some people take these VERY seriously. The categories span the ins-and-outs of Santa Monica Blvd from Robertson (WeHo) to Hoover (Silverlake). They cover the standards (i.e. “Best place to [...]
Mar 25, 2009 | Categories: Culture, EAT DRINK, Health/Fitness, Music, Parties | Tags: academy awards, best gay in la, drag show, frontiers in la, gym, hoover, online poll, robertson, santa monica boulevard, silverlake, spa, weho, West Hollywood | Leave A Comment »