The Polyamorous Affair’s sultry, subversive electro was made for dark places. And the Berlin-based duo of Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie, who not so long ago called L.A. home, go there in the video for “Fantasy,” which transfers the notion of appetite to someplace a little bit grisly. The single comes from 2010’s synth-laden “Strange […]
It’s quite possible that I will tire of posting new videos from the Polyamorous Affair – L.A. expatriates Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie now stationed in Europe. But not if they continue to be this good. “New York City” was cool; “Softer and Softer” was cooler; now comes “Rebel” (off their most recent release “Strange […]
No sooner had I finished posting about Essay (see below), a duo on the Polyamorous Affair’s Winter Palace Records, than the Mr. and Mrs. themselves checked in from Berlin. When we last heard from Eddie Chacon and Sissy Saint-Marie, the former L.A. residents were previewing their new album, “Strange Bedfellows.” Now, abetted by Danish director Nuka […]
There’s a certain insouciance in “Helicopter,” the wry first single from the L.A. electro duo Essay. A bit too defiant of convention to be pop, and too silly lyrically to be punk, it’s the brainchild of Russian-born Renata Raksha and Belgium-bred Peter Moran (ex-Laco$te), who met at an Echo Park gallery and first collaborated on […]
Have to admit it was a dark day at Buzz Bands HQ when Eddie Chacon and Sissy Saint-Marie announced they were relocating their Polyamorous Affair from L.A. to Europe. Their second album “Bolshevik Disco” remains one of the highlights of the Manimal Vinyl catalog, and now they’ve followed it up with “Strange Bedfellows” on Winter […]
It’s rather music video noir in the Ravi Dhar-directed treatment for the Polyamorous Affair song “New York City.” We follow the husband-and-wife team of Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie on a soggy tour of NYC in all its disconnectedness, leading up to a steamy rendezvous at the famous Chelsea Hotel. Compelling stuff. Eddie backgrounds the […]
[It’s not Oct. 31, no matter what the first item would lead you to believe, but it is Usher’s birthday. Best wishes, and here’s your deluge of shows tonight …] Canadian duo Junior Boys [pictured, with download below] headline the El Rey Theatre, and don’t be alarmed if you see some costumed crazies along Wilshire […]
Fans who remember the Deadly Syndrome as a wiry, winsome indie-rock band had another thing coming Saturday night at the El Rey Theatre. Headlining the music night of TarFest, the Los Angeles quartet played a set that suggests they must have been guzzling protein shakes in the months they’ve been working on their sophomore album. […]
Thanks to LA Record, I was turned on to the Polyamorous Affair’s video for “White Hot Magic.” [Caution: The version above has some dirty words in it.] Like the duo’s Manimal Vinyl debut, “Bolshevik Disco,” it’s the product of the vivid and slightly warped imagination of Eddie Chacon (he of 1992’s “Would I Lie to […]
Leave it to Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros to have big ambitions for the visual accompaniment to their forthcoming album, “Up From Below” (due July 14). This video for the L.A. ensemble’s “Desert Song,” directed by Benjamin Kutsko and Cory Marrero, is billed the first of 12 parts of a “feature-length movie musical.” That […]
