So who’s the hero and who’s the bad guy? It doesn’t matter when it’s this entertaining to watch Charlie Clark and Brandi Emma running around in an old western-themed video for “Don’t Let Me Down.” The track is off Clark’s excellent “Feel Something” EP, and this is the third in a series of five video […]
For the love of cupcakes, be nice to a girl when she’s in the afterglow of her sweets. I supposed that’s the lesson in the video for “White’s Not My Color This Evening,” a three-minute fuzz-bomb from the new album by Cherry Glazerr. The young trio – singer-guitarist Clementine Creevy, bassist Sean Redman and drummer Hannah […]
Despite their future-forward name, the New Electric Sound embodies old-school chops as much as they embrace vintage cardigans. Fun and breezy, the L.A- by-way-of-Provo, Utah quintet wears their Beach Boys and Buddy Holly influences well, especially when mixed with today’s SoCal surf-rock vibes. Lead vocalist and guitarist Scott Vance, bassist Tom Brinton, lead guitarist Ben […]
Sonic time traveler Nick Waterhouse is still partying like it’s 1956, but on his forthcoming sophomore release “Holly,” the O.C.-bred singer-songwriter-producer is doing something that was unheard of in the rock ’n’ roll’s golden age: Make a concept album. In today’s blast announcing that “Holly” would be out March 4 on Innovative Leisure, Waterhouse explains: […]
Remember those sibling harmonies and the seemingly hereditary charm that made the Belle Brigade a bright light among a constellation of California folk bands? They’re all but obscured by a maelstrom of effects and tribal rhythms on the band’s new single “Ashes.” It’s a different direction for Barbara and Ethan Gruska, who spent most of […]
Sunset Strip favorites Lady Sinatra bade farewell in November after eight or so years of headbanging, but the band’s singer/producer Joseph “Bunny” Holiday had something new up his sleeve. The trio Bunny Vincent just released “Love Won’t Last,” the first single from a full-length due later this month. In his solo project, Holiday teams up […]
Loud, you say? You like loud? Meet the North, the L.A. quintet whose heavy music seems carved out of the circa-1997 granite that Soundgarden and Alice in Chains used as their foundation. The band, less than a year old, took shape when singer-songwriter Ryan Sullivan got together with guitarists Carlyle Crenshaw and Jamie Maguire, bassist […]
The folk revival shows no signs of abating. And the newly hot Jamestown Revival, name-checked this week by KCRW’s Jason Bentley as an L.A. artist to watch, are bidding to become this year’s Lumineers. The brainchild of native small-town Texans Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance, Jamestown Revival makes earnest, autobiographical tunes with winsome harmonies, all […]
Hobart W Fink – the quartet of singer-guitarist Jayk Gallagher, singer Lauren Lakis, bassist Noe Santiago and AJ Brown – had a robust 2013. Their hard-driving indie-rock, spiked with ’90s-style riffage, tempo changes and twining boy/girl vocals, was on full display on their “Four Eyes, Five Tails” EP, and they followed it up in November with […]
The music of Bosey Masket arrives as if released from a hermetically sealed time capsule from the 1970s – woozy folk high on the California life and other psychedelics. It’s the brainchild of Tyler Steele, whose stepfather was label boss at Death Row Records and who grew up on a steady diet of hip-hop, but […]
