Less than a month after they waxed about “Modern Love,” L.A. indie-poppers Max and the Moon have returned with a new single teasing their forthcoming third EP. “Harps” seems like another Hype Machine-bound confection, this one with the chillwave-y feel of bands like locals Tapioca and the Flea and a Starburst chorus reminiscent of MGMT. […]
Earlier this year, the Ugandan-bred and Los Angeles-based artist Angela Muhwezi released her first single, “New Age,” a two-minute gospel song about race relations, with the blistering opening, “Black is black, white is white / And you better not cross the color lines / If you dare they will bite / ’cause the honey’s real […]
Makes sense that a guy who goes toe-to-toe with zombies and killers every week would like his gnarly guitar rock. Norman Reedus — who plays Daryl Dixon on “The Walking Dead” (and last year got to channel his inner Dinosaur Jr. fanboy) directs the new video for “Blinded” by young L.A. sibling duo the Bots. […]
Longtime followers of L.A. garage-rockers the Dead Ships might find some irony in a song titled “Big Quiet” — the trio of singer-guitarist Devlin McCluskey, drummer Christopher Spindelilus and bassist Alex Moore are to quietude what a Triple Whopper is to a healthy diet. But the Dead Ships’ earplugs-recommended scuzz gets a makeover on this new […]
Somewhere in between Tame Impala and Teenage Fanclub, there is a cozy little spot in your music library for Triptides. Despite originally hailing from Bloomington, Ind.., the psych-rock band has integrated sunny thoughts and textures in their music. Founding members Glenn Brigman and Josh Menashe met each other in a history class called “Rock and […]
This post is brought to you by peace of mind, beauty, subtlety and assorted transportative ambient experiences. Oh, and also by Los Angeles trio Sin Fin. They are Polo Quintero (guitar, loops), bassist Mandy Sewall and percussionist Tom King. They make instrumental music, which is at times trance-inducing and consistently lushly detailed. Oh, and crushingly […]
Just in time for the announcement that he will be the keynote speaker at this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival (funny how these things work out), Snoop Dogg unveiled a new single today. “Peaches N Cream,” a peachy, creamy funk/R&B number, is already all over urban radio, but the backstory is that it’s from […]
Orange County trio Wetwood Smokes make indie-rock that carries a certain gravitas, and they came out swinging last year on their deceptively titled debut EP, the self-released “Earth Tones & Red,” which mixed pop hooks and anthemic bombast to good effect. The band — stepbrothers Josh Bowman and Steven Howard, along with their childhood neighbor […]
The new single from Big Harp is like a football two-minute drill — onrushing synths, a hurry-up pace, a little roughing-the-guitar and, finally, a boy/girl chorus that finds the end zone. “It’s a Shame” represents another nifty piece of gamesmanship from the L.A.-based husband-and-wife team of Chris Senseney and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney (along with drummer Daniel […]
If Mary J. Blige were just getting into the music scene, had a cleaner tone and decided to pursue the ever-evolving synth soundscape, we’d have Dead Right. Well, we’d have vocalist Graham Knoxx at least, but certainly not in a nutshell. Knoxx released a solo EP titled “Echo” in 2012, but it wasn’t until she […]
