Precious few bands are doing heavy music with such mesmerizing intensity right now as goth-rockers Dekades, the band fronted by singer-guitarist Arden Fisher who came on the scene with a roar when they released their “1.1” EP in 2013. Their hypnotic grooves, caustic guitars and insurrectionist themes fuse in explosive fashion on the quintet’s new […]
We love a good pun as much as anybody, but Bones Muhroni might have stretched things a little bit in titling their new single “Diddy Party.” It’s a fun, old-school romp from the Colorado-bred, L.A.-based retro rockers, who’ve been spreading their swing, swagger and sense of humor around SoCal since they migrated here a couple […]
If you were present — and in the spirit — for any of the first three weeks of Freedom Fry’s May residency at the Echo, you’re on the indie-poppers new single “21.” The band is built around the husband-wife collaboration of Bruce Driscoll and Marie Seyrat, and as Driscoll explained at the shows, “It gets pretty […]
Since their 2013 breakout “This Is … Icona Pop,” the Swedish duo of Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo has released but one single, 2014’s “Get Lost” (although they were present and accounted for on songs by Cobra Starship and Tiesto). That dry spell ended this week, when Icona Pop released “Emergency,” a new single that […]
The hard-to-type but easy-on-the-ears L.A. duo yOya continue walk the tightrope between the worlds of acoustic folk and electro-pop. It’s an act they pull off with uncommon grace, owing to the strong vocal harmonies and songwriting from principals behind Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich. The native Oregonians are following up last year’s “Fool’s Gold” single […]
The press blast identifies producer Ryder Bach as “an ex-musical theater actor and ex-Scientologist,” but Bach is better known in some parts as one of two ex-principals in the dearly departed L.A. art-pop outfit Body Parts, whose 2013 album “Fire Dream” made our world a better place. Bach’s forthcoming solo EP is titled “People Are […]
“Quiet Time” is the first new music from L.A. trio Roses since August’s “Dreamlover” EP, and it places them squarely in the court of kings of sad wave such as the Cure and Moz. Though Roses aren’t the kind to wear shiny or black things, the trio of singer-keyboardist Marc Steinberg, bassist Victor Herrera and […]
If we had a buck for every recent press notice that touted “your new favorite psych-rock band,” we could buy enough psychedelics to be trippin’ for the summer. Based on their new single “Golem,” though, L.A. five-piece the Ambient Light might be a contender. From their roots as a post-rock band, the San Gabriel Valley-bred […]
It’s been 2 1/2 years since Dan Chang and Michael Garner, who were two-thirds of a cappella-group-guys-turned-pop trio Lady Danville, forged ahead as Hunter Hunted. They jumped into the pop fray with a 2013 EP boasting the still-omnipresent single “Keep Together,” and now, as bands who jump into the pop fray are wont to do, […]
Mirror Talk’s steeped-in-sentimentality synth-pop comes star-dated from some time in the mid-1980s, although the Los Angeles quartet’s sophomore EP is titled “1997.” It’s true that the the band — singer Court Alexander along with synth-wielding multi-instrumentalists Steven Lopez, Sean Krell and Dave Lewis — are in many ways moving forward, refining the next-wave new wave […]
