Corsica Arts Club sees its indie-rock through the same hazy, sun-baked filters as severely underrated West Coasters Blonde Summer – urgent and fuzzy instrumentation coupled with slacker, reverb-soaked vocals. “California I Follow” is the work of Brendan Thompson and Arash Parsee, L.A. natives and friends since childhood, self-recording in a garage converted into a home studio. […]
The Black Tibetans are doing their level best to put the power back in power trio. The band’s taut, straight-ahead rock is the work of Dean Micetich, aka Dinst (ex-the Tough MFs), along with Tammy Raye and Ryan Harrison. After releasing an EP last year that was produced by Dave Catching (Queens of the Stone […]
Matt Kivel says that his second solo album “Days of Being Wild” (out July 8 on Woodsist) was inspired by bouts of listening to classic rock, so the directness and simplicity in his bare-bones meditations come as no surprise. The album, the follow-up to last fall’s “Double Exposure,” was recorded during some whiskey- and beer-addled […]
Scene regulars Seasons have largely been off the radar in the two years since they completed releasing their four-EP cycle “Spring”/”Summer”/”Winter”/”Autumn” between 2009 and ’12. There, the ensemble led by singer-guitarist Nik Garcia established themselves as sometimes-cinematic, sometimes-wonky psychedelic explorers. The septet is back this fall with the full-length “Everything Changes,” and if that title […]
Oh, the vagaries of making music around a “day job.” Of course, guitarist Josh Klinghoffer’s day job is making music – only with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, leaving his personal passion project, Dot Hacker, relegated to filling in the cracks in his schedule. Klinghoffer, joined by Clint Walsh, Jonathan Hischke and Eric Gardner, has […]
Like a lot of experimental rockers, new L.A. trio Guides dally in textures and tones, but in their abrasive riffage and pummeling rhythms lay a sense of purpose that make you question your comfortable notion of “pretty.” The music is the work of singer-guitarist Chris Cogswell, bassist Be Hussey and drummer Jayson Larson, who, among […]
Add San Fernando Valley-based Camcorder to the long, long list of Los Angeles bands with an Anglophile streak a mile wide. The popgazing on Camcorder’s five-song sophomore EP “Presence” echoes with the DNA of bands such as Ride, the Jesus & Mary Chain and Chapterhouse, and some of their SoCal descendents like Medicine and the […]
Moke Hill, the songwriting collaboration between Detroit natives Ben Berry and Drew Phillips, has followed up February’s debut EP with a new single. The duo, abetted in the studio by Chris Reynolds, Tim Hutton and Dash Hutton, have found a sweet spot with their earnest, straight-ahead pop-Americana, and “Future” ponders with the future without going […]
Pop provocateur Andy Clockwise, who has dropped the given name is now just going by Clockwise, continues to make music that goes anywhere and everywhere. The title track of his forthcoming EP “Dancing World” posits that you can stay home and read poetry and mope or join all the lovelies at the club and find […]
Young L.A. quartet Bad Suns made a splash last spring by dropping a stone-cold radio hit that people who don’t listen to the radio could love, “Cardiac Arrest.” Everything the foursome of Christo Bowman, Miles Morris, Gavin Bennett and Ray Libby has done since – including becoming a live force and releasing their debut EP […]
