Ojos Rojos gives you the feeling of staring across a Dead Meadow with, as their name translates to, “red eyes.” The Claremont quartet’s molten psychedelia, while droney in stretches, occasionally encroaches on Spacemen 3/Brian Jonestown Massacre territory, perfect stuff for long, mind-expanding nights in the desert. The foursome’s new album “Disappear” came out this week; […]
Radar Bros., “The Illustrated Garden” (Merge) – “I want you, I need you / Right now, my life’s on a cereal box,” Jim Putnam sings on “Quarry,” and you’re not sure whether he’s entranced in a moment of morning reverie or fretting over his bio. It’s probably not the latter – Putnam has been making […]
Guitar and vocals plus drums. Oh, no: gimme a moment, let me listen to it … Can you hear that? It’s me, exhaling, in relief and gratitude, that Nashville’s Jeff The Brotherhood are not taking their inspiration from certain other bass-free blues-rock duos we know and have loved. Jake and Jamin Orrall channel surf, psych, […]
[Is it me, or does Stolen Lyric have spring fever?] ||| Source: Metric, “Gold Gun Girls” ||| Live: Metric performs tonight at the Palladium.
Florida quartet Surfer Blood, coming off a strong week of shows at SXSW and still riding the buzz they earned with their 2009 album “Astro Coast,” has top billing in Saturday’s Waved Out Music Fest, being presented by Aquarium Drunkard at the Echo and Echoplex. Depending on your tastes, you can go festival-crazy this weekend […]
[Can’t remember a busier weekend for good stuff. Really. So wish Stefani Joanne Angelina Germotta – that’s Lady Gaga to you – a happy birthday, and I’ll see you at a show:] Tonight: Metric, who played a surprise set Thursday night at a charity gig at the Roxy, headline the Palladium. Codeine Velvet Club and […]
The new Massive Attack song “Saturday Come Slow,” featuring Damon Albarn, provides the backdrop for a short film by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin that illuminates the effects of sound on the human body. The film features Ruhal Ahmed, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, detailing his experiences beings interrogated there, and it was shot at […]
“Swim” (out April 20 on Merge) is the next step on Dan Snaith’s musical journey as Caribou, checking previously explored dream pop and minimal styles, but pushing on into dance-oriented territory. Ambient samples mix with techno and house beats, fleshed out with swirling electronics, dub drop-outs and underwater grooves. The album’s lead track “Odessa” is […]
[Happy birthday, Elton John. Meanwhile, in L.A., my head’s going to explode from the overwhelming selection of good-to-great shows tonight:] First, two indie bands with new albums I highly recommend: The Morning Benders (with Miniature Tigers and We Barbarians supporting, play the Troubadour; and the Deadly Syndrome [Chris Richard, pictured] celebrating the release of “Nolens […]
The Deadly Syndrome, “Nolens Volens” (self-released) – Someday the Los Angeles quartet might make an album as explosive as its live show, but for now we have this: a sophomore record filled with tender moments that feel like pleas for emotional truth in times when guys wearing the right hipster uniforms are anointed prophets (and, […]
