Stream: Sun Drug, ‘Post+Break’
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With all its members having been busy with other projects, art-rock quartet Sun Drug returns after 3 1/2 years with the new single “Post+Break.” An album is on the way later this spring.
Stream: Slip, ‘The Patient’
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The artist formerly known as s//p is now Slip, and in his new track, “The Patient,” his agitation is anesthetized, just as we are under this oppressive heatwave.
Premiere: Sun Drug, ‘Soaked’
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The latest stadium-ready single from the L.A. quartet is a sensory assault of synth, guitar and stream-of-consciousness lyrics about personal renewal. Volume up.
Premiere: Fakers, ‘$600’
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Post-millenial malaise, working-class poverty, creative frustrations — all those grievances are aired in “$600,” the first song to emerge from the new band Fakers, comprised of well-known agitators on L.A.’s indie scene. They are Travis Shettel of Piebald, Cameron Dmytryk of Vanaprasta/Sun Drug, Benjamin Heywood of Summer Darling and brothers Joey and Andy Siara of […]
Premiere: Sun Drug, ‘Easy in Your Attitude’
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Starting over can test the mettle of any creative, but working from a clean slate with a fresh perspective often yields remarkable results. And so it is with Sun Drug, the L.A. quartet of Steven Wilkin, Collin Desha, Taylor Brown and Cameron Dmytryk. They were four-fifths of Vanaprasta, whose heady 2011 album “Healthy Geometry” and […]
Tonight in L.A.: Chinese New Year Festival (Lili Haydn, Sun Drug, more), Air + Style Festival (Kendrick Lamar, Diplo, Phantogram, more), Meghan Trainor/Sheppard, Body Language/Sego, Cursive
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Happy Saturday: â–º It may be February but here’s your second chance to follow-through with your New Year’s resolutions: Buzz Bands LA once again curates the live music stage at the Central Plaza in Chinatown for the Chinese New Year Festival. The lineup features Lili Haydn, Sun Drug (f/k/a Vanaprasta and pictured above), Mount Saint, […]
News bits: Moses Campbell, Vanaprasta/Sun Drug, Dublab, Jenny Lewis, the Postal Service
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Items from the notebook of a guy who still carries one around: ‣ Light a candle for local garage-rockers Moses Campbell [pictured], who announced last week they were calling it quits. From Facebook: “I can’t believe how far we came and how much we learned. It was a life-changing experience.” ‣ Three years after they […]
Gallery: Incan Abraham, Vanaprasta and Black Apples at the Bootleg Theater
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With kaleidoscopic visuals and an equally colorful sound palette, Incan Abraham marked its album release on Wednesday night at the Bootleg Theater. The dense guitar-, synth- and harmony-drenched songs from the L.A. quartet’s debut “Tolerance” sounded huge in the reverb-friendly room, a setting that also benefited openers Vanaprasta and Black Apples. In all, a celebratory […]
Stream: Vanaprasta, ‘Flash Flood Warning’
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Some of the new songs from L.A. quintet Vanaprasta are liable to make you come out of your shoes, if recent live performances are any indication. Promise. But “Flash Flood Warning” is not among them. Like the previously teased “NYF,” “Flash Flood Warning” is lush and dreamy, its meticulously layered psychedelia suggesting the band has […]
Tonight in L.A.: Kera & the Lesbians, Jessica Childess, Jarell Perry, Vanaprasta, Kan Wakan, the New Electric Sound, Busy Living, Fever the Ghost
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Quite a Monday night in store for you: ‣ Buzz Bands LA presents Week 2 of the residency by Kera & the Lesbians at the Echo; Kera Armendariz and her band of merry men will be rocking their unique gypsy punk on a bill that includes Only You, the Wild Reeds and Matt Rivers. ‣ […]
