In advance of Friday’s appearance at Substance 2022, the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim Reid talks about COVID, his long-running battle with stage fright, being a latecomer to jazz, getting along with his brother and what the future might hold. In the works: a book, a documentary and a new album.
L.A. trio Automatic sharpened their foreboding sound — and their appraisals of these dystopian times — on their second album, “Excess.” In creating it, they stuck to their plan: “We’re in a band, let’s make this album be meaningful.”
With the release of “Nervous at Night,” 22-year-old Charlie Hickey has passed the debut-album milestone. “It feels like the first thing that I’ve put out that I really feel like I can stand behind,” the singer-songwriter says in a chat about the record, out via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label.
The Lassie Foundation, who have been busy getting their back catalog remastered and reissued, today released the “Cave Sessions” EP — four tracks, re-imagined. We caught up with Wayne Everett about getting the band back together after 20 years.
The Donnies The Amys on Friday release a new EP, “Wilder Fire,” a collection of pristine pop that broods over the perilous state of our planet. It’s one of many things the L.A. duo — Donnie Stemp and Amy Aileen Wood — accomplished during the pandemic.
Gothic Tropic’s wild new EP “Tang Brain” isn’t your average powdered drink. In the Buzz Bands LA interview, Cecila Della Peruti talks about existential meltdowns, handling rejection, the music industry, emerging from the pandemic and taking to OnlyFans to pay her bills.
Concerts are back, and so is 70-year-old Howard Mordoh, “The Dancing Man of L.A.,” the live music enthusiast now immortalized in a documentary film and in song.
SoCal indie trio Coma Culture’s debut album, “Camouflage,” doesn’t hide from anything. Officially out on Friday, it gazes at existential dread and instead finds an “optimistic, deep blue haze.” Songwriter-producer Jon O’Brien talks about the album, streaming here a day early.
Jess Joy’s debut album, “Patreearchy,” arrives Friday, full of vocal pyrotechnics and explosive messaging. Along with the album’s premiere, the avant-pop artist talks about patriarchy, mime and music as an emotionally complex painting.
Ashlynn Malia spent her childhood in the entertainment industry. Now, at 19, she’s going beyond kid stuff — today, she unveils her new single, “Open,” the first from her forthcoming debut EP.
