The rundown for tonight, as accompanied by Nellie McKay's rendition of "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" by the late Broadway composer Frank Loesser ("Guys and Dolls"): ► The Henry Clay People , LA Font and Races party at the Satellite, with Buzz Bands LA DJing and Paulie Pesh and Joe Napolitano/Jillinda Palmer doing sets upstairs. Champagne toast at midnight, roaring fun all night. For $12, a bargain. Also: ► Funk standouts the Breakestra bring [...]

Buzzbands presents The Henry Clay People w/ Races, LA Font, Jillinda Palmer/Joe Napolitano & Paulie Pesh The Satellite Saturday, December 31 Tickets & Info [ ENTER TO WIN TICKETS ] Photo: HCP @ The Greek, 2010 by Lindsay

The last time I witnessed the Henry Clay People play a New Year's Eve show : The Satellite was known as Spaceland; the Henry Clays covered "Sometime Around Midnight" at, well, about midnight; there was an onstage marriage proposal; the band played 90-plus minutes of classic rock covers in addition to an hour of their own material; and part of the delirious crowd ended up onstage singing along. They're doing it again this year. The lineup for Saturday night's Buzz Bands LA-presented festivities includes cracklin'-good indie-rockers LA Font and Races (the [...]

LA music lovers and scene aficionados get psyched for New Year's Eve at The Satellite! One night, two years, watch The Henry Clay People, RACES , LA Font and more perform on the legendary stage. B3SCI is gonna help you celebrate 2011 and ring in the New Year by giving away a pair of tickets to this party of parties. Just drop us a line here and ask to be entered to win the exclusive pair of passes for the event. Our winner will be raffled and contacted on Wednesday, the 28th. More [...]

Well, rock fans, it was a really strange year, one in which we personally and professionally -- and, yes, even to a certain extent here on the blog -- accomplished a great many big things. And all the ups and downs -- transcendent live sets on local stages, solitary post-midnight walks across frozen parking lots in the midwest -- had their soundtrack. Below are our picks for the 10 best songs of the year. These, as usual, are largely determined by our raw ITunes playcounts, although we also gave a little more weight to recent releases that would have been [...]

Ten Best Albums of 2011 So, the thing with my list this year is that I've been fortunate enough to have either shared a stage, been on a movie soundtrack together, recorded an album with, spent many quality years as close friends, or at the very least, created some memories over some good times with all but two of the bands represented here. However, none of these disclosures swayed my opinion in naming their recordings as the best to come out this year, they're just all that damn good, and I just happen to know them. [...]
L.A. is dominated by electronic music, just ask Thom Yorke. We are a force to be reckoned with. The...

[Here's our long-delayed wrap-up on October's Culture Collide fest:] [...]
Scuzzy rock and roll never seems to go out entirely of fashion, like brick architecture on American college campuses or suit jackets for dinner. But, Georgians, in geography not style, Turf War spit a no-nonsense version of rock that has largely been cannibalized in independent music by something allegedly more esoteric or thoughtful or market-driven. This type of unfiltered, whiskey on a sore

SecondTuesday — Buzz Bands LA's monthly songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe — takes a turn for the eclectic in October. On the agenda: sibling rivalry, a birthday celebration, a beer crawl and plenty of good tunes for a good cause. Headlining on Oct. 11 will be Joey and Andy Siara of the Henry Clay People , who will perform solo material in something of a brotherly brawl. Who knows, they might even do a couple of songs together. Also performing will be Soft Swells , the duo of Tim Williams and Matt Welsh [...]

Echo Park goes global for four days beginning Thursday, Oct. 6, when the Culture Collide festival returns for a second year, bringing artists from 24 countries to eight venues — and, on Sunday, to a three-stage street fair. The festival, the brainchild of the magazine/marketing firm Filter , will be highlighted by two performances by Brazil's CSS (pictured), one to culminate the Toytoa Antics Block Party on Sunday, Oct. 9 — an outdoor affair that will also feature sets by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Datarock, Gang Gang Dance, Men and Cameras. There's plenty more. [...]
The Henry Clay People: keeping '90s indie rock alive.

Deerhunter Play the Wiltern on Tuesday A few good shows this week. Monday 8/8/11 [Pick of the Night] Robert Francis / Papa / Cave Country / Blair @ Bootleg (Free) [...]

Well, we're just about halfway with the reposts... Today, we feature volumes 9 and 10, which were originally posted in August 2009. Volume 10 holds a special place in this blog's history, because that's when Aaron from Tsururadio offered to post the mix on his blog. That started a bit of following and it has grown ever since. Aaron's moved onto Tsuruphoto, following his passion for photography. He now has a nudie-zine featuring some edgy but tasteful art, several videos to promote the zine and Tsuruphoto, and the occasional mixtape. We owe a big thanks for his early support, and [...]

The Henry Clay People and Lady Danville put exclamation points on the 2011 edition of Also I Like to Rock at the Hammer Museum, the Henry Clays with their piquant, prickly indie-rock and Lady Danville with their poignant harmonies. The finale on Thursday of the seventh annual series, curated by Buzz Bands LA, also featured DJ Chris Douridas of radio sponsor KCRW. Thanks to the bands, fans and the museum for making Also I Like to Rock memorable. ||| Photos by Laurie Scavo ||| [...]

Top of the Thursday to you: ► The 2011 edition of Also I Like to Rock at the Hammer Museum closes with a bang tonight, with sets from the Henry Clay People and Lady Danville . The Henry Clays are working on material for their next album after this spring's very strong "This Is a Desert" EP. Lady Danville, the harmony-rich, UCLA-bred pop trio, just toured with Jack's Mannequin and are plotting the release of their debut album, probably early next year. The free show in the museum's courtyard kicks off [...]

Grouplove , razor-sharp from a summer of touring and festival dates, and Milo Greene , exultant from the news that day of their getting a record deal, delivered buoyant performances Thursday night at this month's third installment of the Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum. The biggest crowd of the 2011 series so far witnessed Grouplove storm through the ecstatic pop on the quintet's forthcoming debut album "Never Trust a Happy Song" (due Sept. 13 on Canvasback/Atlantic). That set was preceded by the harmony-rich songs of Milo Greene, the fivesome who learned earlier [...]

The Soft Pack and Hanni El Khatib accentuated the rock in the Also I Like to Rock series on Thursday night, delivering scorched-earth performances to a big crowd in the Hammer Museum courtyard. The Soft Pack previewed a handful of new songs the L.A. quartet has in the works for a new album, and Hanni El Khatib and drummer Nicky Fleming-Yaryan made as much as a two-piece possibly could, previewing material off his forthcoming album "Will the Guns Come Out." ||| Photo galleries by [...]

Graffiti6 and Eastern Conference Champions kicked off the seventh annual Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum on Thursday night in raucous fashion. Playing to a capacity crowd in the museum's courtyard, ECC unleashed 45 minutes of melodic, fuzz-drenched indie rock to start the night before the U.K.'s Graffiti6, with singer Jamie Scott leading the way, delivered an hour of swoon-worthy folk rock. KCRW DJ Dan Wilcox kept the crowd hopping before and between sets. ||| Photo galleries by Laurie Scavo [...]