The Shilohs – “The Place Where Nobody Knows I Go” (The Vancouver-based band recently released So Wild , their debut album via Light Organ Records. They combine jangly, Byrds-like guitars and sun-streaked 60’s pop with infectiously catchy melodies and hints of power-pop and folk for a sound that has one foot in the past and one in the future for a very promising debut.) https://www.facebook.com/TheSh ilohs Download: http://crash-avenue.com/Media/ mp3/Shilohs-place.mp3 [...]
Ume . There is the general feeling around these parts that they just need to blow up; power trio rock with the remarkably charismatic powerhouse lady putting down the jams should be a lock. I love photographing this band. I think every music photographer in Austin loves photographing this band thanks to Lauren's hair. But they weren't my highlight. Modern Outsider is a friend of the program. They have several great acts on their roster and bedsides being really good people, they call Austin home. So naturally, they decided to host a pre-SxSW showcase as part [...]
What a year. More than 140 Los Angeles-sired albums passed through the Buzz Bands LA headphones this year, not counting EPs, mixtapes and singles. Judging from the detritus at my desk — handwritten lists, stacks of CDs, press releases — and my unopened emails, there were a lot more out there. It came in all flavors. 2012 was a robust year for folkies and faux-folkies, hard rock and harder rock, for electro and popgazers, for scads of seemingly interchangeable garage-rockers, for radio bands and scruffy DIYers, for electronic dance music and electronic dumb music, for R&B and glitch&B [...]
Tarfest returned to the La Brea Tarpits Park on Saturday, with Blondfire, So Many Wizards, the Makepeace Brothers, the Steelwells, Helena and Soft Swells soundtracking an afternoon and evening that included live art, sculpture, food and family fun — including a monstrous outbreak of hula-hooping. The spectacular sunset behind the Makepeace Brothers' set kinda put the miracle in Miracle Mile. Here's a gallery from the day.
A massive Saturday, day and night: ► It's a free day in the park at the La Brea Tar Pits, where the annual Tarfest offers a musical lineup of Blondfire, So Many Wizards, Soft Swells, Helena, the Makepeace Brothers and the Steelwells, as well as live painting, sculpture and family activities. ► Mexican singer-songwriter and Latin Grammy-winner Lila Downs holds forth at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. Las Cafeteras opens. ► Stone Temple Pilots head up a lineup that incudes Deftones, Bush, Scars On Broadway, Chevelle, Hollywood [...]
The 10th annual Tarfest — the music and arts festival on the Miracle Mile — officially kicks off tonight with an exhibition curated by Holly Harrison of LACMA , but for music fans the treats come Saturday when a free, all-ages outdoor festival goes off in the park adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits. The musical lineup features Blondfire , Soft Swells , Helena , So Many Wizards , the Steelwells and the Makepeace Brothers . The park figures to be hopping with live art exhibits (including [...]
Rising electro-pop outfit Blondfire will be joined by Soft Swells , Helena , So Many Wizards , the Steelwells and the Makepeace Brothers at this year's Tarfest , the annual celebration of music and art on the Miracle Mile. The free outdoor concert on Saturday, Sept. 22 at the La Brea Tar Pits Park (5801 Wilshire Blvd.) kicks off at 2 p.m. It's the second year the musical offerings at Tarfest have taken to an outdoor stage — Saint Motel and Everest headlined last year's festivities, which feature [...]
Voxhaul Broadcast has been added to the Echo Park Rising lineup to anchor the Echo stage, and Hands, Calvin Love, Oh Boy Les Mecs and the Dead Ships have been slotted to play the Echoplex as plans are finalized for the free, one-day neighborhood festival on Saturday. Fool's Gold (previously announced) highlights a big lineup at the outdoor stage in the Taix parking lot. Full set times are expected to be announced tomorrow. We've nailed down the lineup for the Buzz Bands LA Stage, in the Champagne Room at Taix — which will [...]
So how's your summer going? Great? Well, this will make it even better. Soft Swells — whose bright self-titled debut album gave everybody a head start on the summertime vibe when it was released back in Feburary — have unveiled a new single. "Summer Song" sounds like a classic the moment Tim Williams picks the first guitar notes. Like the tunes on Soft Swells' album, there's a wistful yet optimistic feel to Williams' seasonal ode. "I don't want this summer / to ever end," Williams sings. Same goes for this song, which will be available as a digital [...]
Buzz Bands LA Stage at Taix to feature Soft Swells, Warships, the Lonely Wild, the Record Company, Pageants and more Remember Sunset Junction? Not the fenced-off, charge-you-an-arm-and-a-leg Sunset Junction, but the free, neighborhood-y festival of its early years? That's what organizers have in mind for Echo Park Rising — a free, one-day celebration of local music art and commerce at more than two dozen venues in Echo Park. More than 70 local acts (and counting) are in the mix for the day's entertainment. Genre-mashing indie-rockers Fool's Gold [pictured], cumbia septet [...]
Well, we made it to Friday: ► It's opening night of the Hollywood Bowl season , with new Bowl Hall of Fame inductees and Reba McEntire and Chaka Khan performing, along with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. ► Liars hit the Fonda Theatre behind their new album "WIXIW." That's their video for "No. 1 Against the Rush," above. bu WIXIW ► Vans Warped Tour moves to the Fairplex in Pomona, with Taking Back Sunday, All Time Low, the Used, New Found Glory, Streetlight Manifesto [...]
South by Southwest 2012 offered an orgiastic selection of music, too bounteous for any one person to digest. Buzz Bands LA contributing photographer Scott Dudelson made the rounds all week and hit some of the festival's buzziest artists — from everyone's darlings, Alabama Shakes (top photo) to swoon-worthy songstresses (Fiona Apple and Norah Jones) to L.A. favorites (Soft Swells and Jenny O) to indie favorites (Built to Spill and White Denim) to re-emergent veterans (the DB's and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top). Here's a sampling of what he saw. Concert photography by Scott Dudelson
Over the next few days the Noise Room will post a few recommendations of a few bands and artists to see at SXSW. Many of them we've covered before but we like them and want to share the music with you. First up is Built to Spill. They will be playing at midnight at the IFC Crossroads House at Vice located at 302 E 6th Street. Next up is Soft Swells playing at Trinity Hall, 401 E 6th Street at 8:00 PM. [...]
Nine SoCal bands are playing Buzz Bands LA's "Dear Austin: Love, L.A." day party next Wednesday on the first day of the South by Southwest Music Festival. It seems like 999 SoCal bands are actually headed to Austin. When we started culling music from those artists, our uploader begged for for mercy. So we called upon old friend Kay Randolph (who had storage in his Soundcloud account) to assemble "LA x SXSW x 44," a mix featuring a selection of tunes that some of the participating bands have made available for download. Check out the mix below. [...]
Picture Atlantic [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Picture Atlantic - Guerrilla from When Everything is Numbers EP (2011) Soft Swells Soft Swells [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Soft Swells - Every Little Thing from Every Little Thing/Lifeboats 73 - Single (2011) Coast Jumper [...]
Wow, this is yet another great week for new releases. The singles from new albums have been sifted through and arranged into the following playlist - and it's just one great track after another, and we hope you agree. The lead off track for this week's Best New Releases was not easy to pick with [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Soft Swells warms up The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles at their album release party.
Ayer se editaba el disco de debut de Soft Swells , proyecto formado por Tim Williams, experimentado músico neoyorquino ahora ubicado en California, junto a Matt Welsh, el que fuera líder de los excelentes Phonograph. Inspirados por el clima soleado y playero de la Costa Oeste, nos entregan un álbum alegre y luminoso, de adictivas melodías, con variado aderezo sónico donde cobran gran protagonismo la percusión y las palmas. "Every Little Thing" fue el single de adelanto cuyo vídeo puedes ver a continuación, también puedes descargarte "Put It On The [...]
A bounty of excellent local shows tonight: ► Soft Swells celebrate the release of their self-titled album with an early show (8 p.m.) at the Hotel Cafe, where the Ruby Friedman Orchestra plays an even earlier set (7) and King Washington plays later. [See Soft Swells' "Put It on the Line." ] ► The Dead Ships mark the release of their debut "Electric Ahab" with a show at the Echo, supported by the Ross Sea Party, Hello Echo and the Muddy Reds. [See the Dead Ships' "Bones Cracked."] [...]
Last week Soft Swells electrified San Francisco at our Noise Pop Happy Hour. Today the buzz-worthy band releases their debut proving the buzz isn't just hype.
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