Blog: Buzz Bands

[Happy 30th birthday today to Sara Bareilles. Here's how to get your week started ...] The headliners at month's free residencies should be familiar faces to Buzz Bands readers. Here's a refresher course: Mere Mortals , freshly returned from a successful tour of Japan , bring their gritty Britpop to at Spaceland, where I hear that the "special guest" tonight will be Black Francis — performing with Grand Duchy , the project he launched this year with his wife, keyboardist/bassist Violet Clark. ... Links [pictured], [...]