Josh Legg has had quite the year of recording and touring as Goldroom. Since he released the exquisite hit “Fifteen,” single after single has raced up the Hype Machine charts, making Goldroom one of the best assets for your summer soundtrack. Since then Legg has traded in his laptop performances for organic drums, guitars and […]
It’s been two years since KING released “The Story,” a stunning 3-track EP that captured the hearts of fans such as Erykah Badu and Questlove. But twin sisters Amber and Paris Strother and friend Anita Bias are about to take the world by storm with their debut full-length. A 10-track album that bears the same […]
It started last spring, when L.A. folk ensemble Monsters Calling Home made a video for their song “Fight to Keep” inside their Hondas (a Fit and a CRV). It was clever and sweet and DIY. And it got the attention of Honda’s marketing minds, who saw an opportunity and drove off with it. Under the […]
Gary Richards is a professional party starter. Entranced by the early 1990s warehouse scene, Richards began by hosting a weekly event of his own, “Sundays at 6 AM,” beginning just as the warehouses emptied. Dressed as a priest, Richards hosted “The Sermon,” and began DJing as Destructo, who offered an aggressive mix of Kraftwerk, Daft […]
Three years ago, Chris Price fronted a major-label band that recorded an album costing who-knows-how-much with A-list producer Tony Berg. Next week, Price will be featured on iTunes for an album he recorded for $10. The Florida-bred singer-guitarist made all of his solo debut “Homesick” on his iPhone, using a ten-buck application called 4 Tracks. […]
“Four years. Never again!” Meiko says. Yes, it’s taken that much time for her sophomore album, “The Bright Side,” to arrive. The former Hotel Cafe waitress-turned-singing sensation was the first artist signed to then-booming MySpace Records back in the day, shooting up the songwriter charts on iTunes and finding her songs in hit TV shows. […]
Like her moniker suggests, Ramona Gonzalez has never been quite in the dark. Since the release of 2009’s “Good Evening,” her music as Nite Jewel has always delicately sparkled with a maturity as much as it mysteriously teased with a shrouded vulnerability. The string of EPs that followed touched on chillwave, but Nite Jewel’s recent […]
Harriet arrived with a bang in November with the kiss-off song-cum-playground taunt “I Slept With All Your Mothers,” the centerpiece of the quartet’s “Tell the Right Story” EP. Frontman Alex Casnoff, who’d played keyboards in the bands Dawes and PAPA, sounded as if he had relationships issues, but it turns out that, like any good […]
Darren Weiss is no longer one of the Girls – the Encino-reared drummer-songwriter recently departed the celebrated San Francisco indie-rock band to concentrate on his own PAPA, music he has been incubating since his college days in New York City. PAPA’s debut EP “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find” (released in October) was recorded […]
NO seemed to materialize out of nowhere last fall, a DIY quintet with a seemingly career-assassinating name, fronted by a genial man with a Kiwi accent, and dispensing hopeful, noir-ish indie-rock that recalls the National. The genial man is Bradley Hanan Carter, who first came to the U.S. as guitarist/backup singer for New Zealand rockers […]
