And now for a departure from all those frisky indie-pop “songs of the summer” from the past couple of months: Dive Index is the work of composer/producer Will Thomas, whose previous albums have featured collaborations with Joseph Arthur, Mark Gardener of Ride, Ian Masters of Pale Saints and Natalie Walker, among others. Dive Index’s new […]
Going on five years after we first met Francisco the Man, the Los Angeles quartet is releasing its debut album – and as we suspected from the beginning, it’s arena-ready. Titled “Loose Ends,” the album builds on the baby steps that the band – singer-guitarist Scotty Cantino, bassist Néstor Romero, guitarist-keyboardist Brock Woolsey and drummer Abdeel […]
If you don’t open the door, you’ll never know what’s behind it. You reckon that Avi Zahner-Isenberg walked through a few during his time between Avi Buffalo albums, and maybe a few were as strange as what he encounters in director Jon Jon Augustavo’s video for the new single “So What.” Augustavo, who’s done visuals […]
Paris Yavuz came to making music in a circuitous way: In 2008, Yavuz’ father Peter Haskell, from whom he was mostly estranged, was fatally shot in a much-celebrated incident in downtown Los Angeles. Not long after, one of his father’s friends, Beth Thompson of Medicine, dropped by Yavuz’s apartment with a truckload of his father’s […]
With their lustrous “Full Moon” EP last fall, Mansions on the Moon immediately stamped themselves as electro-pop perfectionists, mining ’80s gold in tastefully produced songs that didn’t fall prey to the cheesy exaggeration of many making that kind of music. The L.A. quartet – singer-guitarist Ted Wendler, keyboardist Ben Hazlegrove, drummer Lane Shaw and bassist […]
Jenny Lewis has had her fair share in front of the camera; she’s known as a child actor in movies like “Troop Beverly Hills” and “The Wizard.” She’s starred in numerous music videos for both Rilo Kily and Jenny and Johnny, in addition to ones promoting her solo releases. However, Lewis has recently stepped behind the […]
L.A. seems to be swimming in synth-pop lately and we may have lost track of how many duos are clinging to the genre, but we’re adding Moxi to our list anyway. The duo of Anna Nelson and Andy Toy released their debut  EP “In My Dreams” last year with songs like “Terrible Disguise” piquing some […]
As if Nathan Willett and Matt Maust weren’t busy enough – their French Style Furs side project with ex-We Barbarians drummer Nathan Warkentin released its debut album July 8 – Cold War Kids have a new album on the way. It’ll be the fifth for the Orange County/Long Beach-bred band, and the first with the […]
“All I Really Want,” the first single from the forthcoming full-length by the Bots, sounds like the work of some garage-rock legends – taut and dangerous and crackling with moxie earned from years of taking their licks. And, well, in a way, the Glendale-bred brother duo of Anaiah and Mikaiah Lei have already built a […]
Few bands in these parts can execute the stylistic range of Hi Ho Silver Oh, the ensemble built around the quartet of guitarist Casey Trela, bassist Kevin Manwarren, guitarist Roxy Radulescu and drummer Chris Dunn. One song they are flannel-friendly folkies and next they are sonic contortionists, stretching around all manner of rhythms while maintaining […]
