Joie Calio and Phil Leavitt, collaborating as 7Horse, embarked on their journey into cosmic country and dirty blues three years ago, releasing the testosterone-charged full-length “Let the 7Horse Run” in 2011 and earning some notoriety when the single “Meth Lab Zoso Sticker” was tabbed by director Martin Scorcese for use in the movie (and trailer […]
Dot Hacker’s lineage is longer than a hungry family’s shopping list – with all gourmet ingredients, mind you. The highlights are that the band was born out conversations between Josh Klinghoffer and Clint Walsh when they were touring members of Gnarls Barkley back in 2006, and around the time Klinghoffer was tabbed to replace John […]
The last time we heard from Ablebody, the moniker under which Christoph Hochheim records, the L.A. singer-songwriter had just self-released his debut EP “All My Everybody.” Hochheim has since rejoined the Pains of Being Pure at Heart on tour in support of the New York band’s forthcoming “Days of Abandon,” but that doesn’t mean Ablebody […]
In the video for the Singles’ single “Inamorata,” an assortment of probably drunk people do some ostensibly bad karaoke. And it’s kind of perfect. Because the Singles’ full-length “Look How Fast a Heart Can Break” is full of the kind of familiar power-pop and garage-rock nuggets that live on in karaoke machines everywhere. The album, […]
It figures, with 20-year anniversaries and all, that there are odes to 1994 cropping up everywhere. It was arguably the peak of the “alternative rock” thing, and both influential chart-topping bands and underground acts were performing at their height. One nod to that year comes by way of L.A. duo of Dan Crane and Amanda […]
Just before his band began their second set on Wednesday night, Beck looked around the crowd in producer Bob Clearmountain’s Apogee Studio in Santa Monica and remarked, “With the lighting and the stage, I’m having flashbacks to open mic nights. Apogee Studio is like a coveted and elusive treehouse for music nerds, and with a […]
Tapioca & the Flea’s cherub electro-pop has been a work in progress for about three years now, since Samuel Jacob-Lopez busted out of Orange County with three pals, a synthesizer and a pocket full of woozy melodies. Now the latest single from Jacob-Lopez (along with guitarist Ronnie Watson, bassist/keyboardist Frank Alva and drummer Matt McClanahan) […]
If you need something to get over the hump on hump day, L.A. trio Criminal Hygiene has got you covered. Now back from tour with the Orwells, your beloved Echo Park party boys are back with another rowdy tune that’s got both grit and hook. “Raid” is appropriately an attack on the peace and quiet, […]
Considering the fact that Kêta is just 16 years old and has already grabbed an opening slot for three sold-out Sam Smith shows (with Tuesday night being her live debut), one might put the L.A. singer-songwriter down in the books as more than just another blip in the pop world. Her debut single “Wooden Horses” […]
On their sophomore album “Psychotropic Jukebox,” L.A. art-rock trio VUM dwell in a foreboding world of hums, whirrs and rumbles where incantation is the official language and narcosis is the national pastime. Now the trio of Jennifer Pearl, Christopher Badger and Scott Spaulding have found a collaborator in Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, who has […]
