Henry Pope’s forward-thinking electro has become a favorite on the experimental edges of the EDM scene – he’s played the Do Lab’s stage at Coachella, Lightning in a Bottle and Unitribe’s Reunion and supported the Lucent Dossier Experience. Pope’s new EP “Waiting” (available on a pay-what-you-want basis) offers a formidable collision of synths, beats and […]
After meeting on the set of a music video in 2013, Connie Ha and Filip Bekic traveled the world together and decided their relationship needed another outlet. Naturally, the idea and initial soundscapes for Rare Darling were conceived a year later at a cabin in Sweden. Although the two are currently based in Stockholm and planning […]
Songwriter Alex Brown Church’s new Sea Wolf project is an album. But it’s not. Well, let’s him explain: “It’s a real Sea Wolf album, but it’s not an official record. It’s a gift for our fans,” he says of “Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke,” a collection of songs made during his “creative regeneration” for the […]
On their gritty/pretty 2013 self-titled debut, United Ghosts gave a clinic in shoegazing, juxtaposing the dark of dense guitars with the light of melodies and boy/girl vocals. The band, stripped back to the duo of singer-guitarist Axel Steuerwald and singer-bassist Sha Sabi, retool their sound on their forthcoming EP, “Dear Electric Sun.” Electro-shock synths replace […]
With the O.C. quintet Steelwells currently off the radar, multi-instrumentalist Billy Kim is exploring some new musical horizons. Writing, mixing and producing under the name King Cosa, Kim has debuted his new project Milo Bloom with the sensual electro-R&B track “Summer Nights.” Greg Fletcher takes the vocal lead here, crooning over stuttering and oozing synths, […]
If the sleek disco or the sexy sheen or the call-and-response chorus of “It’s Like This, It’s Like That” – the first single from Henri – doesn’t hook you, then Cole Rise’s video for the song will. The clip from Rise (a National Geographic photographer and creator of popular filters for Instagram) features some “salacious” […]
Juan Velazquez played in Abe Vigoda, the tropi-punks whose four-album exploits supernova-ed with the Pitchfork-approved “Crush” in 2010. Roses, Velasquez’s new venture with Marc Steinberg and Victor Herrera, is not that. It’s a cool-as-a-Members-Only-jacket collision of post-punk and New Wave that fans of the Psychedelic Furs might fall for. Los Angeles has long been a […]
Jake Hays’ bedroom in Agoura Hills must be a lonely place, judging from the shadowy pop he creates there under the name Maudlin Strangers. Back in May, Maudlin Strangers debuted with with the aching single “Overdose,” which producer Bass Science then remixed and, boom, the electro ears of the world, or at least Soundcloud, migrated […]
It’s been about 2 1/2 years since Delta Spirit released its third album, a self-titled affair that completed the SoCal-bred quintet’s transformation from folk band to rock band. That time period also saw Delta Spirit pack its gear and relocate to New York – just in time, it turned out, for Superstorm Sandy to wreak […]
Just when you think nobody is pushing any boundaries and everything “new” fits into some samey-sounding genre, something like Amoureux materializes out of the ether. Amoureux’s avant-pop is the brainchild of drummer Nicole Turley and bassist Holiday J, who intersperse a few synths, violins and saxophones into the minimalist compositions on their debut EP “Never […]
