Gardens & Villa won’t be making their way back to Los Angeles for a while, but they’re offering something to tide fans over. The Santa Barbara quintet has put together a collection of demos titled “Televisor,” which includes work from their time with producer Richard Swift (now of the Black Keys) at his National Freedom […]
Lili Haydn describes her new album “LiliLand” as “fun, fragile, and ferocious songs about losing everything and getting it back.†In the case of the singer, songwriter and rock violinist nonpareil, that’s not hyperbole. The album, her fourth and first in six years, “was recorded in the four years following a freak chemical accident in […]
Buffalo-born, Orange County-based singer-songwriter Stacy Clark is back with her third album “Symmetry,” a collection of electro-pop with a real skip in its step. Clark has a knack for writing upbeat summery songs with a mainstream sensibility and a sound perfect for teen-drama soundtracks. Opener and first single “Figured It Out†is catchy with Clark’s […]
“I’m in Love” is the first new music in three years from Fool’s Gold, and if you’re in love with everything that makes the Los Angeles quintet one of the most distinctive bands on the bandscape, you’ll fall for this. With singer Luke Top dispensing his finest croon, Fool’s Gold’s rhythm section of Salvador Placencia […]
“I can’t see a way out,” Dan Smith sings over plinking synths in his first single as T.O.L.D., an acknowledgement that the devil will get his due, no matter how fast and far you run. The 24-year-old Englishman, very recently relocated to Los Angeles, doesn’t sound quite as dire as his musical acronym – T.O.L.D. […]
London singer-songwriter Jack Garratt has garnered buzz with his bearded brew of standout alternative R&B. His EP “Remnants†was released in July and shows off his sophisticated and meticulous style of soul-meets-indie-meets-ghostly synth. Vocally, Garratt is emotive and strong with a fierce falsetto and seductive growling depth. Songs “Worry†and “Water†are haunting with ambient […]
Disco chanteuse (and colorful blur when dancing in her flapper twosies on stage) Gavin Turek offers a new and free track to jump-start your week. Melt the Monday woes with “Pride,” a track produced by fellow Angeleno and electronic artist Mystery Skulls (aka Luis Dubuc). Turek, whose notable talents also include channeling her wild energy […]
On the heels of last year’s “Part Time Punks Session” EP, singer-guitarist-noisemeister Matty Taylor has kicked things back into overdrive with his shoegazing outfit Tennis System. Working with producer/engineer Ulysses Noriega, whose credits can be found on records by the Wedding Present, Peter Murphy and Youth Brigade, among others, Tennis System has completed its second […]
Rock ’n’ roll and fashion have always had a snug relationship, and nobody knows that better than Steve Jones, he of punk-rock icons the Sex Pistols, a band formed to help sell clothes on King’s Road. Jonesy is the producer behind the debut EP from Jesse Jo Stark. The daughter of Richard Stark and Laurie […]
L.A. quartet Allah-Las are the 1966 Volkswagen Bus of garage/surf/jangle rock – positively retro cool, like time-capsule cool, daddy-o – but lacking the horsepower to tackle the slightest of inclines. I’ve been in a small minority of guitar-pop fans who haven’t genuflected over the foursome’s meticulously crafted work; there was crowd-surfing at their packed-to-gills Echo Park Rising […]
