SXSW 2015: A hangover party with Austin locals Tele Novella, Roses and Molybden
[See image gallery at buzzbands.la] Downtown Austin looked a lot like my eyes on Sunday — a little bloodshot and vacant, with that what-the-hell-just-hit-me stare after five consecutive days of...
View ArticleSXSW 2015: The 10 Coolest Things I Saw in Austin
The South by Southwest Music Festival is a spectacular collision of art and commerce and technology and debauchery — the latter probably being a semi-trailer carrying propane in that four-vehicle...
View ArticleSXSW 2016, Day 4: Lolipop’s sweet spot and post-storm Seattle flair
[See image gallery at buzzbands.la] Tele Novella, Rudy De Anda, TEE, the Parrots, Cullen Omori Friday adventures of a SXSW first-timer: As the old saying goes, “red skies at night, sailor’s delight....
View ArticleThis Week’s Shows: July 25-31
Upcoming Los Angeles concerts: The Strokes, Janelle Kroll, Valley Queen, Forebear, TeamMate, FEELS, Happy Diving, Emerson Star, Wetwood Smokes, the Garden, Flight of the Conchords, the Jayhawks, Nani,...
View ArticleStream: Tele Novella, ‘Heavy Balloon’
Austin’s Tele Novella aren’t so much a band as a contagion. The good kind. The quartet — Natalie Ribbons (ex-Agent Ribbons), Jason Chronis and Matt Simon (both ex-Voxtrot) and Sarah La Puerta — can be...
View ArticleThis Week’s Shows: Aug. 8-14
Upcoming Los Angeles concerts: Day N Night Festival, Berserktown, Radiohead, Tele Novella, Nico Yaryan, Kauf, Sleeptalk, Bjorn & the Sun, Lolo, Adele, Alabama Shakes, BJ the Chicago Kid, Omni,...
View ArticleTonight in L.A.: Radiohead, Tele Novella, Nico Yaryan, Kauf, Bjorn & the Sun,...
Monday’s Los Angeles concerts: ► Back from a weekend at Outside Lands, Radiohead does another show at the Shrine Auditorium, with Shabazz Palaces opening. ► Austin quartet Tele Novella [see “Heavy...
View ArticleThis Week’s Shows: Nov. 28-Dec. 4
Upcoming Los Angeles concerts: Aurora, Porter Robinson, Alina Bea, King Washington, Fatal Jamz, Midnight Cities, Lasers Lasers Birmingham, the Naked & Famous, Young Thug, YG, Dream Boys, Ramonda...
View ArticleVideo: Tele Novella, ‘Even Steven’
Austin’s spooky-sweet macabre pop band Tele Novella — Natalie Ribbons, Jason Chronis, Sarah La Puerta and Matt Simon — released their debut full-length album, “House Of Souls,” two months ago on Yellow...
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