Less than a year after her song “OctaHate” hit Soundcloud and started blazing into earbuds everywhere (6 millions spins and counting), Ryn Weaver’s debut album “The Fool” will be released. The 22-year-old southern Californian, who worked in the studio with producers Benny Blanco and Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos, will unveil the album on June 16, […]
“Good grief, I been reaping what I sowed,” Earl Sweatshirt rapped to the packed floor of the House of Blues last night, performing his new track “Grief,” over a dark and crunchy metallic beat of his own making, which rattled hard as dozens of audience hands shot up, and dozens more rapped along, “N*gga, I […]
Seeing as the new trend in rap is to release your album with little to no notice, Odd Future ringleader Tyler, the Creator has announced his newest album via his recently launched Golf Media app. It’s titled “Cherry Bomb,” and there’s word that Lil Wayne and Kanye West will appear on one of the album’s […]
On “Golem,” their second album in seven months, Los Angeles four-piece Wand dive boldly into the 1960s and ’70s, but these aren’t any lightweight musical hallucinogens these guys are doling out. The band — Cory Hanson (guitar, vocals and synths), Lee Landey (bass and synths), Evan Burrows (drums) and Daniel Martens (guitar) — prove as […]
L.A. septet Behon began with the solo folk songs of singer-guitarist Brendan Han, then grew faster than college dorm room after somebody texted there’s a free kegger. Han first enlisted childhood friend (and trombonist) Jeff Leblow, who in turn recruited several friends from the Occidental College music community, including drummer Mike Ursu, saxophonist Alyssa Cottle, […]
Kid Bloom are a five-month-old L.A. quintet engaging in lovingly warped, sneaky-smart psych-pop. They’ve recorded an EP’s worth of tunes at an Atwater Village studio that feel like the ’60s and ’70s in a fun house — theirs is an arty approach to composition, deconstructing and reassembling pop elements seemingly on a whim, judiciously subtracting […]
Viva Violet is the pedigreed duo of Jiha Lee and Nick White, longtime friends who have called Chicago, Omaha and Athens, Ga., home, and started their new project last year in L.A. Lee, the former keyboardist in the Good Life (and like White, who has toured with Adam Green, Binki Shapiro and Tilly and the […]
The 2013 debut from Froth put the L.A. quartet on the map as one of the top local bands with whom you’d like to share a Kool-Aid, assuming it wasn’t straight-out-the-package stuff. “Patterns” was a not-quite-lo-fi slab of psychedelia that at its best had a woozy, slacker charm. The new song “Postcard Radio” sizzles with […]
Whether they are transporting listeners to a blissful state with twinkling guitars or blowing their hair back with pedal-powered harmonics, L.A. quartet Winter knows pretty. Their album “Supreme Blue Dream,” which went to the top of the Lolipop Records heap when it was released last month, evokes some of the flagship bands of the indie […]
Husband-and-wife duo Western Bells may look familiar to those who have seen this Samsung Galaxy ad, but Angelenos music fans may have a fond memory for their previous band Robotanists (they made the headlines with this feat). Vocalist Sarah Ellquist DeBlanke and Daniel DeBlanke have also worked on several solo projects among the many bands […]
