Ears Wide Open: Trickster Guru
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Christopher Caplan’s new ’60s-tinted psych-pop songs tackle some serious subject matter — a tragic car crash and a cult leader, respectively. Groovy, but dark.
Stream: StaG, ‘Colorado/Suicidal’
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Los Angeles indie-rockers StaG will release their third full-length, “Don’t Check Out” in March. But Matt McGuire and Will Walden aren’t really thinking about moving back to Colorado, are they?
Premiere: Sophie and the Bom Boms, ‘Big Girls’
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The latest single from singer-songwriter Sophie Stern, who has an EP on the way in the new year, is simply grown-up fun. Don’t go crying now.
Ears Wide Open: The Brinks
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The Brinks, the collaboration between producer Matt Friedman and singer Scott Mellis, released their debut EP “Temporary Love” earlier this month. File under spartan synth-pop.
Ears Wide Open: Highland Kites
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As Highland Kites, singer-songwriter Marissa Lamar has released an EP and a full-length album in the past 16 months. There’s substantial depth to her folk-pop confessionals.
Ears Wide Open: Goldensuns
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The L.A.-by-way-of-Utah band of brothers unveil “I Feel This Place,” a taste of hazy psychedelia that will appear on their forthcoming EP.
Premiere: Swahili Blonde, ‘Rose My Emperor’
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Written, recorded, and produced by experimental musician Nicole Turley, “Rose My Emperor” appears on a new Swahili Blonde record coming this January.
Stream: The Luxembourg Signal, ‘Dying Star (Cirrus)’
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The Luxembourg Signal and Sacramento’s Soft Science team up on a split 7-inch that offers two sweet slices of indie popgazing.
Stream: Luke Top, ‘On the Shore’
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The solo album from the Fool’s Gold frontman will be out March 4, and half the proceeds from this first single will benefit the French Red Cross.
Premiere: The Knitts, ‘Get Up Get Out’
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The fire-drill of a new single from the young L.A. quintet is a frenetic post-punker and the first song to emerge from their sessions with producer Michael Leonhart.
