Frankie’s debut EP doesn’t arrive until April 14, but it was clear Thursday night at the Bootleg HiFi that she’s already a “New Obsession” for many. The Oakland-bred pop darling swiftly won over the audience, her quartet taking the stage to a homemade iPhone ringtone tune and kicking off the set with “New Obsession,” from […]
Harriet Brown wants you to see yourself in 20/15 vision. The R&B prince is quick to release a new single not featured on his October release, “New Era.” and it lives up to the exceptional one-man band standards set by that EP. “20/15” is pure groove, giving his vocal dexterity a break to put a […]
Pop princess Frankie may be relatively new to L.A. but anyone in the Bay Area (hometown is Oakland) would recognize her since she spent her childhood writing music and forming a band with her cousin. Now in the city where pop tart dreams can come true, Frankie Miller has partnered up with longtime collaborator Petros […]
Rains washed out the ski competition at Sunday’s second day of the Air + Style Festival at the Rose Bowl, and the weather thinned the crowd too, but the bands were troupers, slogging through their sets to the soggy masses. Umbrellas, anyone? ||| Photos by Zane Roessell One thing for certain: Neither precipitation nor technical […]
Down in the valley of the Rose Bowl, a 16-story (150-foot) snowboard jump rose to meet attendees Saturday at the Air + Style Festival. Caked in 700 tons of (real, imported) snow, you could see it from any residence in the neighborhood and feel the flecks of snowmelt if you stood too close. ||| Photos […]
The third annual FOMO Fest on Sunday at The Echo was accompanied by warm weather and 14 local artists that are expected to make noise in 2015. Dodging the Fear Of Missing Out, this festival covered everything from dreamy pop to Southern soul, names that are familiar and newbies that have broken ground in the […]
It doesn’t take long for singer Zoe Reign to get down to his skivvies at a No Parents show, and by the third song at the Smell on Thursday night he was sporting nothing but burgundy Doc Martens, black briefs and a “Player” ball cap. After making the crowd giggle to his Taylor Swift lip-syncing […]
Like its title, Two Gallants‘ new single “Incidental” is just that. Or so the undiscerning ear may assume. The grungy blues track is a swift 2 1/2 minutes of ragged vocals and melodic guitar that swirls in circles unpredictably with a relieving bridge. While the duo maintains their muscular musicianship, “Incidental” is a rock spasm […]
San Francisco guitar-drum duo the Dodos mark their 10th anniversary this year. In anticipation of their sixth full-length album, “Competition” is a light and sweet peek into the matured craft of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber. Albeit a straightforward indie-rock song, the first single off of the nine-track album reminds us of the strength in […]
Waxahatchee, who signed to Merge Records in December, has announced a the third installment to her catalog, titled “Ivy Tripp.” The solo project of beloved Katie Crutchfield garnered quite a bit of indie cred with her previous album “Cerulean Salt” and she’s not stopping there. Waxahatchee’s new single “Air” is just that, airy, distant and […]
