Stream: The Parson Red Heads, ‘Coming Down’
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Portland’s The Parson Red Heads, onetime scene faves during the five years they lived in L.A., release their fourth album, “Blurred Harmony,” in June. It’s a big album.
Stream: Brother Moses, ‘Crazy Eyes’
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Arkansas indie-rockers Brother Moses, who made their new single with Raymond Richards, play L.A. tonight — the night after thieves stole all their guitars in Anaheim.
Stream: StaG, ‘Colorado/Suicidal’
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Los Angeles indie-rockers StaG will release their third full-length, “Don’t Check Out” in March. But Matt McGuire and Will Walden aren’t really thinking about moving back to Colorado, are they?
Ears Wide Open: Count Fleet
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You’d think the hills of Silver Lake and Echo Park were Appalachia judging from the amount of big-hearted folk music coming from the scene. The tunes of Count Fleet are exemplary – earnest and winsome, they feel like a hedge against high-tech city life, illusory social media friendships and button-pushing marketing campaigns. The duo of […]
Download: Parson Red Heads, ‘Burning Up the Sky’
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The Parson Red Heads are back. No, not in Los Angeles – their base for five years and home to some of their most devout fans – but back on the musical landscape. Less than a year after relocating to Portland, Ore., Evan Way and bandmates today announced they have signed with indie imprint Arena […]
Premiere: Correatown, ‘Further’
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Angela Correa says it’s just evolution. But for the songwriter and compelling voice behind the L.A. quartet Correatown, her new musical direction – which finds her winsome, Americana-oriented folk-pop suddenly elevated to the cumulus of dream-pop – represents education as much as anything. “This has the sound and textures and soundscape-y elements that I was […]
Kids in the Hall: Local Natives in harmony at Disney
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At one moment during Local Natives’ gleeful turn Saturday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, singer-keyboardist Kelcey Ayer gazed longingly at the grand piano in front of him, which seemed not much smaller than a lot of clubs the Los Angeles quintet played during its two-year ascent into the indie-pop limelight. “This is the first […]
Premiere: A House for Lions, ‘Come On, Let’s Go’
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You won’t find the slightest trace of indie tricks – no fuzzy reverb, glitchy beats or laptop wizardry – on “I Want Us to Be Remembered,” the first EP from Los Angeles quartet A House for Lions. “That’s not who we are,” singer-songwriter Daniel Norman says. “It would come off as false.” Instead, Norman’s partnership […]
The Fling, in harmony with music’s (and its own) past
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It’d be a compliment to call the Fling derivative, and it’d have nothing to do with the Long Beach band’s ’60s-flavored folk rock. The band – brothers Dustin and Graham Lovelis, along with Justin Ivey and Justin Roeland – derives its name from an early-’80s SoCal band called the Fling. It was founded by the […]
Ears Wide Open: Seasons
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As sure as the seasons change, L.A. quintet Seasons has a new EP, it seems. The latest from the scrappy Highland Park band is the forthcoming “Winter” – named for when it was made, not when it will be released (June 22). Recorded at Raymond Richards’ Red Rockets Glare studio and mastered by Mark Chalecki, […]
