There are psych-rock bands, and there are psych-rock bands. And when Electric Flower – now going by Electric Flower Group, or EFG – appeared out of the ether in 2011, the duo of Imaad Wasif and Josh Garza laid the framework for some next-level guitar-and-drum music. Since then, EFG has released two EPs, while the […]
The temptation here is to just riff on the name [maybe these guys have seen this blogger’s jump shot?], but we’ll just keep it about the music. Magic Bronson is an electronic duo, a collaboration between Michael Nicastro and Matthew Lieberman. Last year’s “Nor’easter” EP displayed their moves: dirty (or at least slightly smudged) production, […]
Members of the Galaxy Electric may look familiar if you’ve been following husband-wife duo Jacqueline Caruso and Augustus Green since they were just Los Angeles transplants by way of Washington D.C., back in 2011. Then, Caruso and Green were known as Thurlow, whose music was elegant electro-pop. Soon after, Caruso and Green started pursuing other […]
At just 23, Taylor Dexter has already made his mark on the L.A. music scene. He’s been especially busy the last year or two, drumming for both Hunter Hunted and Body Parts, and he also recently contributed percussion to Alina Cutrono’s solo project. However, since Air Life‘s live debut during Body Parts’ November residency last […]
Darren Weiss and Daniel Presant – aka PAPA – are going back out on the road in support of their fantastic debut “Tender Madness;” this isn’t a surprise. Weiss, Presant and company have been hard at work, steadily trickling out singles and music videos over the year to make up for the wait after the […]
The new album from Los Angeles ambient rockers StaG, “Difference,” is a brilliant exercise in arranging the musical furniture – tasteful guitar parts, restrained electronics and propulsive rhythms working in concert with dreamy melodies and atmospherics. The band is the brainchild of pals-since-they-were-wee-lads Matt McGuire and Will Walden, and what they’ve achieved on this long-player (52-plus […]
Terraplane Sun look like a roots-rock band out of central casting, if central casting were headquartered in Venice, and sound like they’ve done their homework, mixing blues, soul and folk into a California-vibing take on Southern rock. They’ve made their mark with pulse-pounding live shows and seen their music used all over television, but through […]
It’s easy to imagine the Habits album as a laboratory experiment gone south – a beaker overflowing, then exploding, triggering a chain reaction and sending particulates all over the room until, when the smoke clears, there’s something beautiful on the wall. The title is “Unselves in Arrival,” which suggests some metaphysical exploration is in order […]
yOya‘s soundscape has blossomed into something bigger than “folk-tronica” on their new single. Yes, there are still those pliable vocal melodies, synth lines and acoustic guitar but Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich continue to soar and break through genre lines with each release. “Fool’s Gold,” the latest song out now on New Professor Music, still […]
We’re not sure how much Merseybeat can be found in the music of the Mercy Beat, but we long ago learned not to divine anything from band names, punny or otherwise. The Mercy Beat surfaced last April, doing a co-residency with DWNTWN at the dearly departed Santa Monica club the Central SAPC. As we reported […]
