If this new track from Robert DeLong doesn’t get you amped up for the weekend, I don’t know what will. The electronic maestro, who just wrapped up his well-attended residency at the Echoplex, releases the new single “Global Concepts” as a new member of Glassnote Records. Continuing to prove that he is more than just […]
Cold Cave has gone through numerous lineups since Wes Eisold began releasing music under the moniker, and the latest group he’s put together is pretty impressive. With the help of new members Hunter Burgan (AFI), London May (Samhain) and Cody Votolato (Blood Brothers), Cold Cave will be going back in to the studio to record […]
Just in time for Halloween, Durham, N.C.-based Delta Rae releases the supernatural music video for the song “Dance in the Graveyards.” The single is from their full-length debut “Carry the Fire” (out now on Sire Records), and despite the ominous setting in the title, the song’s message is an upbeat one. When coming up with […]
Laura Marling fans may appreciate Daughter, the London trio whose members consist of vocalist/guitarist Elena Tonra, electric guitarist Igor Haefeli and drummer Remi Aguilella. Originally the solo work of Tonra, Daughter’s small batch of available music is also somber folk-pop with dark undertones. There are as many lyrics about deaths are there are about dreams […]
Professor Possessor are wacky. They’re dark. They’re punk, and they boast former member of the brainy pop ensemble Big Moves – Jesse Imme – along with Scarlet A. Newman-Thomas, Jacob Summers and Hayden Hall. Forming in late 2011, Professor Possessor has explored the experimental realm with their own brew of garage-wave, witch-pop, dark wave and […]
Working acoustically or electronically, Jean-Philip Grobler – aka St. Lucia – doesn’t waste time on barely-there compositions. The former choir boy from Johannesburg, South Africa, who studied music in Liverpool, England, Grobler adheres to meticulous structure in his songs, right down to the saxophone solo on the band’s debut EP. On St. Lucia’s latest EP, […]
Jacqueline Caruso is better known as one-half of husband-wife dream-pop duo Thurlow, but she’s branched out on her own under the moniker Swan. Her arsenal here includes the same rich, elegant vocals used in Thurlow, characterized by a new vulnerability that envelops this incarnation. Tracks like her single “Into the Storm” offer a beautiful simplicity […]
With a name like Song Preservation Society, you get the feeling Daniel Wright, Trevor Bahnson and Ethan Glazer are trying to keep their music organic. And that’s true for the most part when it comes to the L.A.-based folk-rock trio, whose acoustic stylings are composed of not much more than three voices, three guitars and […]
Oh, it’s just another massive Saturday: ‣ In support of their forthcoming record “III” (out Nov 3. Fiction Records), Crystal Castles headline the Hollywood Palladium with strong supporting bands HEALTH and Kontravoid. ‣ The Echoplex gets rocked by the Soft Pack, Crocodiles and Heavy Hawaii. ‣ The Jealous Sound, Weatherbox and Cardboard Lamb all team […]
