Who needs hallucinogens when you’ve got Jeffertitti’s Nile? The band – the cosmic conveyances of singer-guitarist Jeff Ramuno – this week releases its second full-length, “The Electric Hour.” Ramuno, who plays bass for Josh Tillman in Father John Misty, calls his music “transcendental space-punk doo-wop,” which uses a lot of words and hyphens where “psychedelia” […]
The masked marvels in the Moth & the Flame’s video for “How We Woke Up” are but a subtle reminder to watch out for the Utah-bred, L.A.-based trio’s full-length album later this year. The band – singer-guitarist Brandon Robbins, keyboardist-singer Mark Garbett and drummer Andrew Tolman – immediately turned heads last fall with the release […]
For such a sunny guitar riff in Run Things‘ debut single “Dumb in the Sun,” you’d think the Anthony Gaddis-directed video would actually have some natural Vitamin D filtered through the camera lens. Instead, we follow actress Caroline Roseberry on a drive during which flowing hair and palm trees are sexy in a black-and-white, “Twilight Zone” kind […]
I’m not sure I miss feathered mullets or Prefab Sprout enough to totally buy into Tower, but with all the other parts of 1980s New Wave music having been mined for goodies, why not the squishier parts too? Tower is the collaboration between Derek Coburn and Darin Green, and the very vibey “Can’t Vibe” was […]
Power-pop stalwarts Ozma have had a mercurial career: Branded as Weezer acolytes early on, they culivated a fervent fanbase before parting ways in 2004 after three albums – only to return strong in 2007 with “Pasadena,” which established their own crunchy sound. In March, a stint on the Weezer Cruise in their rear-view mirror, the […]
Torches has gone through several changes throughout the years; everything from their band name to their soundscape has evolved. New experiments and realizations, however, have been favorable for the L.A. duo. The band is currently preparing for the release of their new EP and each tune, so far, has wonderfully been inching toward luxuriously full […]
And the award for Best Opening Line of a Press Release goes to: “We’re horny. And we’re sad.” So goes the introduction to Los Angeles quintet Babes, who are only half-joking. The band – siblings Sarah, Aaron and Zach Rayne along with Bryan Jeffrey and Jeffrey John – hold that almost all art springs from […]
Everybody loves a good comeback story. So here’s the abridged version of Indian School’s: Arturo Barrios, Justo Gonzalez and Gabriel Camacho spent the early part of last decade making dyed-in-the-mosh-pit punk rock as Audio Karate before parting ways. Fast-forward a few years, and frontman Barrios got something in the way of a reality check – […]
Mystic Braves are the latest darlings to emerge from the Burger/Lolipop/psych-band-in-every-garage scene, and one of the least original. Not that that matters anymore, because, it is repeatedly pointed out to us, music (or a style of music) is new if it’s being heard the first time. And Mystic Braves – Julian Ducatenzeiler, Tony Malacara, Cameron […]
There’s the official video for Incan Abraham‘s single “Concorde,” and then there’s the Teddy Cafaro & Spencer Mandel-directed GoPro cut. The latter features actor Daniel Franzese – whom is mostly known for playing the fabulous Damien in “Mean Girls” – and we get to spend a day with him while he and the band hangs out in […]
