When Sara Lov sings “I had a dream …” in her new single “New York,” you almost do. The song is off her just-released EP, “The Young Eyes,” and this video was directed by Marco Morandi. The L.A. singer-songwriter, building up to the March 17 release of her album, “Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming,” just finished […]
Their name is barely known outside of a few small clubs, but already Local Natives are telling us all the places they’ve been – and, in doing so, all the places they intend to go. The L.A. quintet makes music that crackles with frenetic beats, agile melodies and cascading harmonies, tightly assembled in songs that […]
At its recent performance at Check One Twosday at the Echoplex, L.A. six-piece Castledoor unveiled a raft of impressive new material – including the soaring ballad “Hush.” Spaceland Recordings is offering a free download of the live track. Here’s the video … you can do the download thing right here.
The latest album from Australian quartet Youth Group [pictured], “All This Will Pass,” will finally get a U.S. release on April 7, via World’s Fair and the Aussie imprint Ivy League. The band’s swoon-worthy Britpop made a mark here – at least with me – on “Skeleton Jar” (2004, Epitaph) and “Casino Twilight Dogs (2006, […]
Local quintet Eagle Winged Palace has signed to Park the Van Records, the label home of Dr. Dog and the Spinto Band. The project started by Eric “Cashew” Harding, formerly a principal in the Prix, Eagle Winged Palace will release its debut EP “Hand of Doom” on March 17. The fivesome is currently recording a […]
The way they bond, Jonathan Hylander and Sean Johnson may as well be twin drummers of different mothers. The pair, the driving force behind the Voyeurs, were pounding the skins for different South Bay bands when they met. They went on to play in the formidable but ill-fated (and hard to type) quartet E>K>U>K before […]
Dispatch from the Midwest: Casey Meehan [left], the Chicago-based artist who launched the online music distributor that offered free downloads of Jay Bennett’s album last year, today releases the album by his new project, Jitney. The album, “86-300,” is available for free at Rock Proper. Jitney’s album – which is quite a tour de force […]
[Birthday greetings today go out to Lucinda Williams …] Pop Levi performs tonight at the Echoplex to benefit the very fine 826LA as part of Tiny Vaudeville, a night of music, comedy, short films, novelty acts, lectures and slide shows. The night promises an appearance by “an actor so famous we can’t mention the name” […]
[Afternoon quickies while I listen to the rain and the nice new album by Elvis Perkins in Dearland … and if you need some accompaniment whilst reading this, here’s a stream of” Jason Bentley’s take on West Indian Girl’s “All My Friends,” one of a series of remixes the band just completed. WIG plays the […]
Not resting on the accolades it received from its 2008 debut “And Now … Le Switch,” L.A. quintet Le Switch — the Monday night residents at Spaceland in February — has readied a new EP titled “The Devil Needs a Cough Drop.” It will be out Feb. 23 on the Aquarium Drunkard’s Autumn Tone imprint, […]
