You can almost hear the floorboards of the saloon creak during Pony Boy’s new single “Greatest Unknown,” singer Marchelle Bradanini’s continuing adventures in casting dark spells over vintage Americana. Bradanini’s Old West soundscapes are places there might be cowboys and there might be aliens, and there certainly are mysterious heroines who can stop either in […]
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Meg Myers came out of nowhere – well, actually a diner in Echo Park, via a church in Tennessee – early last year to plant her flag in the fertile soil once tilled by the like of Dolores O’Riordan and Sinead O’Connor. Myers’ six-song “Daughter in the Choir” EP was a mix of razor-sharp rock, […]
Sometimes misfortune can lead you down unexpected paths. So it was with singer-songwriter Brandi Emma, whom we last spotted aiding and abetting Charlie Clark on his new EP. During a time she was injured and not able to play guitar, Emma found herself hanging out with friends Steven Evanne Heinstein and Thomas Schobel in Schobel’s […]
Far be it from us to nitpick anybody’s release strategy, but in teasing their forthcoming full-length debut, L.A. quartet Hands leaked two songs before finally unveiling the new version of “Brave Motion” this week. Make no mistake, “Brave Motion” is the single, folks – the best entrée into the deliriously polyrhythmic, densely textured and vocally […]
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The urgency of the synth-wielding post-punk bands of the 1980s provides the undercurrent for “VIVA,” the first full-length from L.A. Girlfriend. The nom de tune of Loyola Marymount product Sydney-Allyson Banta, L.A. Girlfriend can be playful and alluring but, as her flirtations with the would-be suitors in the Dustin Muenchow-directed video for “Gentlemen” suggest, there’s […]
Will Courtney makes time stop. Or, at least, the bear-huggable singer-songwriter slows the world down to a manageable pace. Courtney, known as Brother Will to the many friends he has made in the many places he has lived (he’s received mail in Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles and now Santa Fe, N.M.), crafts folk music that’s […]
Since we premiered the first song from Western Lows back in January, the L.A. trio’s debut album has found a nice home. “Glacial” will be out June 4 via local imprint JAXART Records (whose recent releases include Incan Abraham, So Many Wizards and Steffaloo, among others). Western Lows, of course, is the new vehicle for […]
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Jangle-pop maestros Army Navy are at it again, plotting their third album (due later this year) and generally parting any clouds that block your musical blue skies. As singer-guitarist Justin Kennedy and mates have done since their sparkling 2008 debut “Army Navy,” the trio trades in chiming chords and boy-and-door verve, their early work recalling […]
The winds of revivalism show no signs of abating. In fact, in the case of Michigan-bred, L.A.-based Mayer Hawthorne, they keep pickup up steam. The singer-songwriter-producer (and recently Bearded One) announced this week that he has a new album on this summer. It’s titled “Tropical Storm Hawthorne,” and the first single “Designer Drug” is a […]
The legacy of Medicine has been referenced increasingly in recent years – main man Brad Laner’s continued explorations is experimental psychedelia is one reason, but another is the current wave of nu-gazers who have made the one-forgotten Los Angeles band influential. Probably best known outside cult circles for crashing the Cure/STP/Rage/NIN party on the soundtrack […]
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