‣ It’s another installment for Chinatown Summer Nights at the Old Chinatown Central Plaza. Moving Units, the Peach Kings, the New Electric Sound, the Cold & Lovely, Magic Bronson and the Rebel Light all perform on the Buzz Bands LA-curated live music stage. KCRW DJSÂ Anthony Valadez and Raul Campos will be spinning at the dance […]
If drama were a fluid, Night Terrors of 1927’s new song “Always Take You Back” would be drenched. The band’s slow-building, shimmering anthem is the first new song to emerge since last November’s “Guilty Pleas” EP. Surfacing early last year as the creative tête-à -tête between Jarrod Gorbel (the Honorary Title) and Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley, […]
The last time we heard what Amoureux –  the duo of drummer Nicole Turley and bassist Holiday J – could do to stand apart from the mass of recent musical lemmings we were impressed. Now that they’ve released the EP bearing the same name as the previous single “Never Young As Tonight,” fans craving for something more off-kilter […]
“I’m love with every emotion,” Jessica Dobson sings in “One by One,” the latest from Deep Sea Diver, a clarion call to embrace life’s every peak and valley … “before it’s gone.” The song is jaw-dropping in its complexities – haunting ooh-oohs, shifting rhythms, shreddy guitars, the big, emotive chorus – and offers yet another example […]
“Make Me Yours,” the second EP of pop noir from L.A. duo Vow, comes out next week, and the dark “Charm,” a song about personal and emotional transparency, is one of its most rapturous meditations. Vow’s principals, singer Julia Blake and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Thomas, wanted to keep it simple in conceiving a video for the […]
Remember teenage crushes? The scratchy, catchy new single from L.A. pop-rock quartet Act As If sums up those obsessive moments, all in under 2 1/2 minutes of exuberant power-pop. “Uh Huh” is a taste of the new full-length from the L.A. quintet of Peter Verdell, Diego De La Rosa, Sara Lindsay, Derrick Wong and Tristen […]
The last time we heard from L.A. elecrtro-pop duo Scavenger Hunt, it was obvious that Jill Lamoureux and Dan Mufson knew how to make a feel-good tune. They’ve released their self-titled EP since, and Lamoureux’ jazz-influenced vocals shined even brighter with Mufson’s percolating beats on more songs like “Bones.” As Scavenger Hunt’s latest single, “Bones” is a […]
The hard-to-type but easy-on-the-ears duo Pr0files emerged last year, its principals Danny Sternbaum and Lauren Pardini both boasting impressive songwriting credentials. Besides rocketing them to the top of the synth-pop duo class, their first single “Call Yourself a Lover” offered an intense, hypnotic foray into the dark world of regret, a moodiness they’ve maintained in […]
Besides resumés from playing in various art-rock bands around Los Angeles, members of the new quartet TETE say they share a mutual love of metal, reverb, drone, art, wolves and Gummi Worms. Their first song might boast a sonic kinship with all but the Gummi Worms. There’s nothing sweet about “Good Luck,” a sinister 4 […]
Banks has hypnotized fans around the world with her moody R&B since she released “Before I Ever Met You” and “Fall Over” in 2013, and we expect big things to come from the L.A.-based (yet wildly popular in the U.K.) artist this year. In anticipation of her forthcoming debut “Goddess” (out Sept. 9 via Harvest […]
