L.A.-based Texan Jordan Richardson has a voracious appetite for everything – he drummed for multifarious indie-rockers Oliver Future when he first moved here eight or so years ago, then joined up with Ben Harper for three releases, including Harper’s Grammy-winning collaboration with veteran blues man Charlie Musselwhite, “Get Up!” Also a session drummer, Richardson struck […]
After releasing two EPs of hyperkinetic power-pop, singer-guitarist Adam Bones has stripped back to the bare essentials. The Two Tens is his new two-piece with drummer Rikki Styxx, and the duo debuted last month with a three-song outing titled “Volume 1.” Nothing over-thought or overwrought here: The Two Tens serve up lightning-quick garage rock that […]
When is something “brand new” yet has north of 7 million plays on YouTube? When it’s the new single from Jutty Ranx, the L.A. trio who remain mystifyingly under the radar on their home turf but who’ve done quite well overseas. The band – charismatic frontman Justin Taylor along with Finnish production ace Jaakko Manninen and […]
“I was a bird in a cage,” Kathryn Barr confesses in her first single under the moniker Spelles, “… and now I sing from such great heights.” And in a most intoxicating manner. “Bird in Cage” is the first single from Spelles, having gained some traction when the song was used in “Pretty Little Liars.” […]
Some days you feel grounded, others you feel as if – to cop a line from one of our favorite travelers – you’re floating in space. Mirror Days’ new “Solstice” EP is for the latter; it’s the solo work of Michigan-bred songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Graham Harrington, who keeps his gaze toward the ground and his head in […]
The Janks have been working classic rock fans into a lather for over five years now, having released two albums of blues-based jams that are comfort food for fans of 1970s Southern rockers and bands like the Black Crowes who followed. Like the latter, the Janks are fueled by the creative juices of brothers, Zachary […]
Magic Bronson is addictive. The L.A. duo’s full-length debut “Wildlife” rumbles and hums in the secondhand-smoke-filled netherworld of indie-rock, hip-hop and electro-pop, and its biggest calling cards are the crooning verses and choruses of the very tall Michael Nicastro and big bass lines of … well, less tall Matthew Lieberman. The three singles the duo […]
Friends-since-kindergarten Miranda Zeiger and Jessica Vohs write songs as Willow Willow (named for the 1969 by Love), and back in 2007 the Bay Area natives collaborated with now-Los Angeles resident Bart Davenport on a full-length album of clever, harmony-laden pop. Fast-forward to now, and the pair have also relocated to L.A. Their new album “Listening […]
As Globelamp, Elizabeth Le Fey engages in several tugs-of-war – mystical vs. corporeal, hopeful vs. skeptical and, on her new single, here vs. afar. The singer-songwriter’s debut album “Star Dust,” which came out in June, exuded a childlike innocence that belied the often-dark morality tales spun in a reverb-heavy web of psychedelia. Now Le Fey, […]
L.A. rockers Great White Buffalo are of the opinion that (to cop a title from a late, great L.A. band) rock ’n’ roll has lost its teeth. Their new “Fangs” EP carries more than a little bite, if not the the gravitas of many of the bands who’ve carried the indie-rock torch over the past […]
