The Puppy Bowl on Sunday was great, but singer-songwriter Cary Brothers’ video for his new song “Lovin’ On You” has serious game. Directed by Lakshmi Sundaram and filmed by Stephen Tringali, it stars a St. Bernard puppy named Leo and follows a familiar storyline: You might lose the girl, but a dog’s love is unconditional. […]
Odd Future member Hodgy Beats is also a part of respective duos MellowHigh with Domo Genesis, and MellowHype with Left Brain, but he just released the 12-track mixtape “Dena Tape 2,” a follow-up to 2009’s “Dena Tape” and the first solo work he’s put out since an untitled EP in 2013. Hosted by Philadelphia rapper […]
A year ago, Bryan Sammis departed his job as drummer for L.A. quintet the Neighbourhood and embarked on making music as Olivver the Kid. His “Freak” EP, released in October, is musical salve for emotional wounds, dark meditations that offer the same soft-to-the-touch feel as some of his old band’s pop. For the song “Attica […]
Slutever is a Los Angeles-based duo with a truly awful band name — Whatever was already taken, so they had to use some, y’know, imagination — and in a scene frothing at the bit to toast anything young and visceral, they have been anointed the next Girlpool. Or maybe Girlpool is the next Slutever. They have […]
Dirty Dishes are the relatively-new-to-Los Angeles duo of singer-guitarist Jenny Tuite and bassist/synth player Alex Molini. At this very moment, they are probably not missing the climate in their native Boston — nor are they missing the overdriven power chords of the alternative 1990s, judging from their scorcher of an album, “Guilty” (which came out last […]
Gateway Drugs are the rare guitar band thse days whose work you can’t pin to just one or two junctures on the timeline of rock ’n’ roll. We won’t bother with extra-long hyphenates, but in recent months the L.A. psych-rock quartet has stoked anticipation for some sort of release with their roaring live shows. And […]
L.A. duo Monogem today released its debut EP, a self-titled affair that gathers up the four singles they’ve released in the past year and a half along with a new track, “Silhouette.” The collaboration between singer-songwriter and onetime “American Idol” contestant Jen Hirsh and producer-songwriter Scott Smith, Monogem makes slinky, sharp disco-pop that recalls the […]
The latest in an increasingly long line of inheritors of Iggy Pop’s “kill-all-hippies” mantra are No Parents, who like kindred spirits FIDLAR and a host of bands on the Burger Records imprint play punk-rock hard and fast and loud and hilariously and profanely. Their debut album “May the Thirst Be With You” comes out this […]
On their debut album last year, L.A. duo Howls proved moody and brooding. On the follow-up single “White Noise” (out next week via Buddyhead), co-conspirators Annalee Fery and Christian Stone move from the dreamy and dark to the brighter lights of the disco. The pulsating single was produced by Jon Siebels, the Eve 6 guitarist […]
On her first two albums, including last spring’s stellar “All My Love in Half Light,” Melissa Ann Sweat — dba Lady Lazarus — wrestled with her demons in wobbly, piano-based songs notable for their stark honesty and fragility. The title track from her new album, “Miracles” (due March 3), suggests that her clouds have lifted. “I believe […]
