When L.A.-based indie outfit Two Sheds unveiled the single “It’s Okay” last August, we assumed a full release of their album “Assembling” was imminent. Some things take time. Some things are worth the wait. Both are true with “Assembling” (out May 26 on Crossbill Records), the follow-up to 2014’s self-titled EP and the first full-length […]
Fifteen years since their last album and two since they won the main stage at Coachella, Violent Femmes are releasing new music — a four-song EP titled “Happy New Year” will be out on April 18 (Record Store Day). “Happy to have some new recordings for people that have loved our music,” main man Gordon […]
Since he released Harriet’s debut EP “Tell the Right Story” in early 2012, singer-songwriter Alex Casnoff has been prone to arresting mood swings. “I Slept With All Your Mothers,” the former Dawes and PAPA keyboardist taunted on that first solo venture, before a long period of soul-searching yielded the melancholic “Ten Steps” and the downright […]
Los Angeles-via-Dallas artist Post Malone is relatively unknown at this point, with the Internet largely void of his backstory, and only a few songs to his credit — however, those few songs are great. His track “White Iverson” has logged over half a million listens in the last few weeks, Malone half-crooning and half-rapping with […]
Singer-songwriter Vanessa Long — aka Cillie Barnes — has been regrouping since her 2013 “Happy Valley” EP (with its magical single “Brainwash”), which was followed by some messy business dealings and a then trickle of singles. Her new song “Facework” — recorded in Omaha with Saddle Creek stalwarts Nate Walcott and Mike Mogis — is […]
Forget the trends, the hype, and the breezy pop tunes for a second. If all boy-girl duos were put to the ultimate survival-of-the-fittest test, Los Angeles-based THRIFT would swallow all synth-pop duos whole and spit them back out in the time one hits the power button on a Korg. Members Anna Carmela and Mark Malagise call […]
Northern American’s “Elysian” feels crafted from precious materials, its rolling melody and shimmering guitar suggesting a band that’s placed itself above the fray, or at least one that’s found comfort in a bustling city’s natural hideaways. And so it is with the video for the song, made by Sean Zaccheo and Hazel Mailloux, which splices […]
Samira Winter is a Brazilian-American singer-guitarist who relocated to L.A. about a year ago from Boston after completing her studies at Emerson College. Her dream-pop project Winter debuted in 2012 with the “Daydreaming” EP, and last year’s “Tudo Azul” EP boasted indie-pop in both English and Portuguese. In L.A., she’s formed a live band with […]
If you’re a Snoop Dogg or a 231 fan, you might smile listening to this one. Tuxedo, the duo of soul-singer Mayer Hawthorne and hip hop producer Jake One, released “Number One” to follow up their debut single “Do It.” The two release their self-titled debut on Stone Throw Records today and there isn’t a […]
On Rademacher’s ambitious 2011-12 album trilogy “Baby Hawk” — which no indie-rock fan should have missed, although many did — songwriter Malcolm Sosa dissected the artist’s life, with all its hope and warts and perceived ignominy. Now Sosa (née Mike Mancillas) is contemplating “Retirement.” The Fresno native, ensconced now in the L.A. life, has been […]
