On “Golem,” their second album in seven months, Los Angeles four-piece Wand dive boldly into the 1960s and ’70s, but these aren’t any lightweight musical hallucinogens these guys are doling out. The band — Cory Hanson (guitar, vocals and synths), Lee Landey (bass and synths), Evan Burrows (drums) and Daniel Martens (guitar) — prove as […]
L.A. septet Behon began with the solo folk songs of singer-guitarist Brendan Han, then grew faster than college dorm room after somebody texted there’s a free kegger. Han first enlisted childhood friend (and trombonist) Jeff Leblow, who in turn recruited several friends from the Occidental College music community, including drummer Mike Ursu, saxophonist Alyssa Cottle, […]
Kid Bloom are a five-month-old L.A. quintet engaging in lovingly warped, sneaky-smart psych-pop. They’ve recorded an EP’s worth of tunes at an Atwater Village studio that feel like the ’60s and ’70s in a fun house — theirs is an arty approach to composition, deconstructing and reassembling pop elements seemingly on a whim, judiciously subtracting […]
Viva Violet is the pedigreed duo of Jiha Lee and Nick White, longtime friends who have called Chicago, Omaha and Athens, Ga., home, and started their new project last year in L.A. Lee, the former keyboardist in the Good Life (and like White, who has toured with Adam Green, Binki Shapiro and Tilly and the […]
Whether they are transporting listeners to a blissful state with twinkling guitars or blowing their hair back with pedal-powered harmonics, L.A. quartet Winter knows pretty. Their album “Supreme Blue Dream,” which went to the top of the Lolipop Records heap when it was released last month, evokes some of the flagship bands of the indie […]
L.A. quartet the Briggs have been largely off the radar since the latter part of last decade, when you couldn’t go to a sporting event without hearing their pugilistic civic-pride anthem “This Is LA” (part of the Kings’ and the Galaxy’s soundtrack). Their 2008 album “Come All You Madmen,” their fourth, seemed to signal they […]
New York’s Tim Martell is a New York-based house and electronic music DJ with a long resumé that includes gigs at some of the world’s premier venues, support and festival slots alongside a bevy of A-listers and a healthy list of corporate clients who’ve sipped from his mixology. He also has a thing for Coachella. […]
L.A.-based Jake O’Neal is a transplanted Coloradan who now makes music under the name Drip Lines, having left behind his indie-rock outfit Summa (so named because he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado) in the Rocky Mountain state. Academics aside, you don’t need to sport a 4.0 to feel the emotion in […]
Connecticut-bred trio Mercies moved to L.A. a year and a half ago — “the great unknown,” they suggest in the song “White Fir” — to build on the creative sparks founding members Josh Rheault and Sammy Dent discovered in making their debut album, 2011’s “Three Thousand Days,” in a old tobacco barn. Joined by Jordan Flower, […]
Cody Crump is something of a terror. The young singer-guitarist’s bio relays his rocky times in his hometown, the western Colorado outpost of Montrose, where he was kicked out of the high school band and choir and impeached as junior class president after being arrested. He moved to Denver, then to L.A., and in 2013 […]
