The Haim sisters have never been ashamed mixing their love for classic rock and pop sensibilities, as demonstrated by songs such as “The Wire” and “Honey & I.” Their long-waited and well-received debut “Days Are Gone” oozed with retro vibes and the music clip for their track “If I Could Change Your Mind” follows suit […]
Jeff Ramuno’s duties as Josh Tillman’s sideman in Father John Misty have slowed his own explorations as Jeffertitti’s Nile, but come April he will be back in orbit. And by orbit, we mean outer space. And by outer space, we mean out there. Jeffertitti’s Nile’s psych-rock inhabits distant galaxies, where constraints are few, the vistas […]
The 1980s have been watered down so much we’re pretty sure they’re drowned somewhere in a bathtub. First place I’d look is wherever the Chain Gang of 1974 live. To review, TCGO1974 migrated from Denver to L.A. a few years ago, released the justifiably ignored album “Wayward Fire” in 2011 (3,100 copies sold) and then […]
Kevin Morby‘s solo debut “Harlem River” is intimate and homey in the best troubadour tradition. Past singles such as “Miles, Miles, Miles” by Morby (who is also a member of Woodsist and the Babies) carried an air of nostalgia, but “If You Leave and If You Marry” is taken to another level with its music […]
Can we get a “whoa-oh-oh” chorus in celebration of weirdness? The new video for the Night Terrors of 1927 single “Dust and Bones” is either sheer genius or non sequitur nonsense, depending on your interpretation of the hodgepodge of household madness that transpires in just under four minutes. (And is that a quizzical look the […]
The L.A. duo DWNTWN immediately earned officer’s stripes in the synth-pop army with the single “See My Eyes” which was featured on the French label Kitsuné’s compilation of American bands almost two years ago. The team of Jamie Leffler and Robert Cepeda solidified that rank with last year’s “The Red Room” EP. With Chris Sanchez’s […]
Buzz Bands LA returns to Austin next month for the sixth consecutive year during the South by Southwest Music Festival, hosting its third annual “Dear Austin, Love L.A.” day party. The showcase of eight top emerging acts from southern California will go off from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 12, at the Chuggin’ […]
We have no idea what to make of all the debate about “authenticity” in roots music these days, but it isn’t going out on a limb to venture that L.A. quintet the Far West is doing right. They are five guys who paid their dues in myriad other bands and who joke that their music […]
Illustrated is the “EDM†project of Los Angeles-based DJ and producer Sean Layton. The use of quotes on “EDM†is because his style is hard to nail down, often genre-hopping through a plethora of textures within a single track. This is evident in his remix of Dr. Dre’s “Forgot About Dre,†reminiscent of the Castlevania […]
The adrenaline-charged new single from L.A. pop quintet Y LUV is an homage to French explorer/author/scientist Jacques Cousteau – and it finds the band doing some exploring of its own. Over a dance-punk bass line that could have sprung from an early Bloc party album, “Jacques Cousteau” is “about letting your fear push you to […]
