Kat Primeau has loosed her talents in theater, comedy and music during her time in Los Angeles, even spending some time a few years back in a girl band called Girl Band. Now she has merged skills – and names– with Chris Sousa in the duo Sumeau. At their most restrained, the band’s songs recall […]
Hey, remember pop-punk? Before your various retro movements, the international synthesizer-in-every-pot campaign and the advent of banjo shredding, pop-punk was the hip way to get your ya-ya’s out, whether the music was railing against The Man or rhapsodizing about lost love and alienation. The Dollyrots are still pumping blood into that vein – their fifth […]
The Bots have been at it since they were kids … except guitarist Mikaiah Lei and drummer Anaiah Lei still kinda are. They’re 20 and 16 years old, respectively, but they have the souls of their elder blues rockers, and it’s not hard to invoke the name of Jimi Hendrix (and here we genuflect) during […]
We know Gavin Turek can sing and shake it, but we know more importantly that her songwriting chops are what’s gotten her noticed in the first place. Turek’s still at the forefront of producing and collaborating with some of today’s rising electronic stars (Tokimonsta, Com Truise) and lending her voice when she can to other […]
The ranks of Busy Living have grown since singer-songwriter Mike Moonves (ex-Chief) first debuted the project. Moonves, now joined by Jared Sohnen, Drew Philips, Matt Leddy and Tim Hutton, has been working on music to follow up an EP that he released in 2012. The folk-rock outfit’s new single “Lie Better,” produced by Jim Eno […]
There’s five decades’ worth of sweet soul music wrapped up in the vocals of Jessica Childress, and more than a little bit of tenacity, too. A native of Lancaster who attended Pepperdine University, she’s a refugee of the television show “The Voice” (“I want to marry her,” Adam Levine blurted after she nailed Bruno Mars’ […]
When Incan Abraham first hopped on our radar back in 2011, we knew they had the psych-pop chops that would resound near and far. So when the L.A. quartet teamed up with Lewis Pesacov (Fool’s Gold, Foreign Born) on last summer’s  “Tuolumne,” we had good reason to believe their forthcoming album would yield even more remarkable […]
L.A.’s Baywood makes the kind of unadorned, sincere folk songs that put a smile on your face, and are liable to stick your head too. The band is a collaboration between Joe Ginsberg and Jarrad Kritzstein, who played in the rootsy Audra Mae & the Almighty Sound and bonded, as their bio points out, “their […]
That was fast. Barely two months after sizzling L.A. duo De Lux unveiled their free debut EP, the band is back with bigger news: They’ll return April 8 with their debut album “Voyage,” coming via Innovative Leisure. Built around the collaboration between Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco, the band metes out funky disco-punk as if […]
The spirit of the garage-rock explosion in Los Angeles seems even stronger than our winter’s endless summer. The latest trio to poke their heads out from behind their vintage riffs are Jammy and the Smack (kudos for the band name, by the way), who on their first single “King of the Last Minute” (kudos to […]
