Need something to knock you out of your morning funk and get you into the groove for the weekend instead? Enter Street Joy. The L.A. duo has been making some noise around town with a true-blue sound that recalls two or three different eras of rock ’n’ roll. The third single from singer-guitarist-bassist Jason DeMayo […]
Maybe it’s the musical climate or maybe it’s the time the band spent with production svengali Richard Swift in Oregon, but Tijuana Panthers appear poised to break free of their surf-garage-rock chains. The Long Beach trio’s new album “Wayne Interest” comes via Innovative Leisure on June 3, about a year after 2013’s tight, retro-tasty outing […]
Twenty-four-year-old singer SZA originally intended to release “Z†as a follow-up EP to the “S†EP of October 2013, but after the increase of exposure since then, “Z†comes to us as a debut full-length album via Top Dawg Entertainment. It features production from DJ Dahi, Emile Hayne, Felix Snow and Toro Y Moi, and […]
When Tommy Alexander of Low Flying Owls unveiled his Imaginary Persons side project last fall, he acknowledged that the “rest” of his band were, for now, imaginary people. His solo project’s first single, the expansive psych-rocker “Give,” gave us hope, however, that real people would join Alexander in realizing his musical vision. That hasn’t quite […]
“Moving On,” the debut album from Los Angeles septet Kan Wakan, isn’t out until June 3, but between 2013’s EP and the new song “Like I Need You,” we’re getting a feel for its majestic vision. “Like I Need You,” which debuted this week in the promo for the spring HBO season, is a sultry, […]
If you’ve been a die-hard Warpaint fan from the beginning, and you still can’t get enough of the all-female psych dream-pop quartet, then maybe their video double-feature will tide you over until their Coachella set this weekend. Just over eight minutes long, Warpaint’s Laban Pheidias-directed video seamlessly combines a daytime clip for “Disco/Very” and a nighttime […]
East Los Angeles trio the Pocket Rockets return with another single “MDNGHT” to celebrate the release of their sophomore and self-titled EP, and the new track is even splashier than the last. Its guitar riffs are delightfully dizzying, the bass lines are shamelessly flirty and the drums hold it down while vocalist Ralph Blanco sings […]
Early Morning Rebel’s solemn, evocative pop is the work of Nathan Blumenfeld-James and Dustin Bath, who have emerged from the fashion, art photography and film worlds to cultivate a cinematic sound of their own. The band gained quite a bit of momentum when the single “Life Boat” was featured on “Grey’s Anatomy,” and that song […]
It seems like more and more bands are turning their backs from big studios and instead crafting tracks in their apartment (or wherever they can get down to creating). And that’s exactly what Matthew Doty and Philip Stancil did in making their sophomore album. Together, they are Midnight Faces, now based in Los Angeles after […]
As fans have seen throughout her teenage growth spurt, Chloe Chaidez is a changeling. Fronting L.A. quartet Kitten, Chaidez – now all of 19 – can play ferocious rocker girl, electro-pop starlet, angsty confessor and New Wave princess with equal aplomb, making the foursome’s live shows a spectacle of surprises. When Kitten’s self-titled debut album […]
