“You’re so hip it makes me sick,” singer-guitarist Isaiah Silva complains in the suddenly hot single by the Eeries, “Cool Kid” – a relatable sentiment considering the preponderance of fashion-statement pop and production-heavy navel-gazing that has taken over the marketplace. So what do the Eeries (Silva, along with guitarist Brandon Sweeney, bassist Eliot Lorango and drummer […]
Henry Pope’s forward-thinking electro has become a favorite on the experimental edges of the EDM scene – he’s played the Do Lab’s stage at Coachella, Lightning in a Bottle and Unitribe’s Reunion and supported the Lucent Dossier Experience. Pope’s new EP “Waiting” (available on a pay-what-you-want basis) offers a formidable collision of synths, beats and […]
When we last caught up with dream-pop singer-songwriter Devon Williams, he had just released his splendid sophomore album “Euphoria.” Two years later he has a third studio album titled “Gilding the Lily” under his belt. The writing process for this record had already begun when the former was released, so naturally, songs like the romantic […]
Gabrielle Wortman and Jason Rosen – the L.A.-based duo known as Smoke Season – stage their sultry, mysterious single “Badlands” in a forlorn desert outpost in the lush new video for the song. Directed by Scott Fleishman and produced by APLUSFILMZ, “Badlands” finds our protagonists wrestling with their demons in Joshua Tree National Park – somebody gets […]
After meeting on the set of a music video in 2013, Connie Ha and Filip Bekic traveled the world together and decided their relationship needed another outlet. Naturally, the idea and initial soundscapes for Rare Darling were conceived a year later at a cabin in Sweden. Although the two are currently based in Stockholm and planning […]
Songwriter Alex Brown Church’s new Sea Wolf project is an album. But it’s not. Well, let’s him explain: “It’s a real Sea Wolf album, but it’s not an official record. It’s a gift for our fans,” he says of “Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke,” a collection of songs made during his “creative regeneration” for the […]
On their gritty/pretty 2013 self-titled debut, United Ghosts gave a clinic in shoegazing, juxtaposing the dark of dense guitars with the light of melodies and boy/girl vocals. The band, stripped back to the duo of singer-guitarist Axel Steuerwald and singer-bassist Sha Sabi, retool their sound on their forthcoming EP, “Dear Electric Sun.” Electro-shock synths replace […]
If Simon & Garfunkel loved synths as much as Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich, there’s a large chance they would have sounded like L.A.-based yOya. Releasing beautiful single after heartrending single, the duo has kept it simple while going big with their soaring melodies. The clip co-directed by Dave Suchanek and Eleanore Kody does the same […]
With the O.C. quintet Steelwells currently off the radar, multi-instrumentalist Billy Kim is exploring some new musical horizons. Writing, mixing and producing under the name King Cosa, Kim has debuted his new project Milo Bloom with the sensual electro-R&B track “Summer Nights.” Greg Fletcher takes the vocal lead here, crooning over stuttering and oozing synths, […]
If you just had lunch, prepare yourself for the video for “Golden Room” from L.A. garage-punk trio the Dead Ships. The second-half of the clip may reveal a bizarre and cartoonish version of gore, but the Herculion (Mitchel McKenzie and Aaron Silverstein)-directed clip could warrant an R rating if you’ve got some of the kiddies hanging […]
