SoCal trio Their Wedding grew from the ashes of Inland Empire indie-rockers the Motel Life, who disbanded in 2012 after releasing two EPs and a full-length. In their new guise, singer-pianist Michael Escanuelas, guitarist Al Hernandez and bassist-vocalist Celese Hernandez are in the middle of an EP trilogy — the second, “Wine,” is out as […]
Like Moxi’s previous singles, “Through The Dark” – the title track of the L.A. duo’s new EP – offers an intoxicating mix of wobbling synths and danceable beats, with Anna Nelson holding her own as the kind of lovestruck singer the New Wave loved in the ’80s and which proliferate now. It’s the stuff of […]
It didn’t take Meiko much time to retool after the October release of her third full-length “Dear You.” The L.A.-based singer-songwriter is back with a new EP with a title that reveals her favorite two themes, “Lovers & Fighters.” It arrives just in time for Feb. 14, of course, complete with pink hearts on the […]
There’s visceral and then there’s Wake Up Lucid. The L.A.-based trio of cousins — Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca — have been making not-so-nice for about five years now, with two EPs and the 2012 full-length “Feel It” outlining their agenda to make heavy blues so dangerous it should be on a do-not-fly list. Live, […]
The backgrounder for “Dance in Your Blood,” the latest single from Omniflux, notes that songwriter Mahsa Zargaran derived inspiration from “long walks listening to Dead Can Dance and Massive Attack.” Sound like a line from a profile on a dating site, right? Awright, we’ll send a wink. “Dance in Your Blood” does indeed conjure up […]
Year-and-a-half-old L.A. trio the Electric West spring from the same, gnarled post-punk tree that yielded Interpol, Bauhaus, Gang of Four and Joy Division. Last year the band released an LP titled “The Dusty Trails Demo,” which for all its sturdy parts sounded like the DIY affair it was. But now the threesome — Lee Lewallen, Byron […]
The first single from L.A.-based trio Midnight Swim Club evokes the squishy neo-soul of the ’90s with the modern flourishes of artists such as How to Dress Well and The Weeknd. “Sleepwalker” is the work of singer-guitarist-keyboardist Derrick Oshana, bassist-keybaordist Gray Robertson and beatmaker Chris Chamberlain. Oshana released a solo EP of folk-pop back in […]
Before we talk about Ghost Hours, a pop quiz: Who is Ron Fountenberry? One point if you remember the SoftLightes, the indie-pop quartet who were the first American act on the Australian label Modular (and included among its members Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty, who went on to form El Ten Eleven). Their album “Say […]
Some of Los Angeles’ most compelling music evolves from accidental collaborations, wandering spirits, lifetime underdogs, the chronically curious and people without fancy managers/publicists/”teams” who are the diametric opposites of bands who look like they’re right out of central casting. Rough Church has some of those qualities. The band is helmed by Silver Lake long-timer Greg […]
I owe my devotion to the music of Statistics to a publicist’s sleight-of-hand. About a year after professing love for Desaparecidos’ debut album “Read Music/Speak Spanish,” I received a missive saying that if I liked Desaparecidos, I should check out their guitarist Denver Dalley’s side project, Statistics. Of course, the Conor Oberst-fronted emo-punk of the […]
