Harriet Brown wants you to see yourself in 20/15 vision. The R&B prince is quick to release a new single not featured on his October release, “New Era.” and it lives up to the exceptional one-man band standards set by that EP. “20/15” is pure groove, giving his vocal dexterity a break to put a […]
Seattle’s Craft Spells headlined the Echoplex on Friday in support of its latest shoegaze album “Nausea.” Craft Spells’ sophomore album was a long-awaited release to follow-up 2010’s debut “Idle Labor” and 2012’s “Gallery” EP. They were joined by San Francisco’s dream-pop duo The Bilinda Butchers and L.A.’s electronic project MEISHI SMILE. Buzz Bands LA photographer Carl […]
Art-pop duo The Controversy released their second album, “Don’t Count on Me,” this month, and it includes the single “Queen of Chinatown,” a heartrending meditation about the double life of a drag queen. The song makes for compelling cinema, too, in the video directed by the band, Laura Vall and Thomas Hjorth, and filmed by […]
Pop princess Frankie may be relatively new to L.A. but anyone in the Bay Area (hometown is Oakland) would recognize her since she spent her childhood writing music and forming a band with her cousin. Now in the city where pop tart dreams can come true, Frankie Miller has partnered up with longtime collaborator Petros […]
Florida natives Chris Hess and Adam Winn — making music as SWIMM — have been making waves since they forsook their home state for Los Angeles, playing club shows, DIY events, galleries and basically anywhere they can add a little color to the room. Last August, they retooled 2013’s “Feel” EP into a deluxe edition, […]
First, you have to be OK with the band name Dankrupt. (It was not until a recent hazy night in Echo Park that I learned it is not just a terrible pun but a slang term, sorry for being out of touch.) Then you have to be OK with videos featuring rock bands faux-playing in […]
Chelan, the long-running collaboration between Jen Grady and Justin Hosford, work out of Joshua Tree, have a visual collaborator in artist Kime Buzzelli (who does the duo’s album art) and take a slightly experimental approach to indie-pop. Their fourth album, the self-released “Equal Under Pressure,” features deft mix of peripatetic rhythms and layered vocals, both […]
The Airborne Toxic Event released a new album this week. “Dope Machines” arrived in the mail with a notice touting the L.A. quintet’s reinvention as an electro-pop band and something in the way of an artist’s statement from frontman Mikel Jollett: “We live in a world connected by these dope machines that do all this […]
Keenhouse, née Ken Rangtuky, is a Los Angeles-based electronic music producer who split time between Europe and Southeast Asia in his youth, cultivating an interest in the sounds of both the East and West. A few weeks ago, he released his third (and most ambitious) album, “A Future Past,” on Sunlinxx Records, with 15 tracks […]
Odessa Jorgensen has taken a circuitous route to “Odessa” — the debut album that, it was announced this week, will come out April 28 via Chop Shop/Republic Records. The L.A.-based singer-songwriter, who counts the violin, guitar and a singing voice from heaven as her weapons, was a member of Americana outfits Bearfoot and the Biscuit […]
