Not to get too redundant here, because we just touted the title track barely two weeks ago, but we’re treating next week’s release of LA Font’s “Diving Man” as a moral imperative transported from most of what we embraced in the 1990s. The full album is streaming over at Noisey, but we twisted an arm […]
No matter whether Little Galaxies are into interstellar themes, the Venice-based band does write dream-pop that shimmers like the stars. In fact, the quartet comprised of Jeanna Fournier, Amir Eshraghi, Brian Sumwalt and Adam Yasmin sounds like they sat on the beach for several nights underneath the twinkling sky and studied constellations with guitars in […]
Music fans around Echo Park know Sean Guerin as a sound engineer and general scene supporter, but it’s his new guise as one-half of the electro duo De Lux that figures to elevate his profile. Guerin and fellow 22-year-old Isaac Franco make bright, wiry disco-punk that recalls the early days of Moving Units or LCD […]
The best thing about Wake Up Lucid is that the L.A. trio doesn’t clean up well. Oh, don’t take that literally; besides, the trio of cousins – Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca – generally play their loud, sweaty sets on stages so dark you couldn’t tell if they were wearing peacock feathers. No, it’s more […]
Lo-Fang’s evocative early releases, featuring a happy marriage of electro-pop and strings, have made his full-length debut “Blue Fin” one of the most hotly anticipated releases of early 2014. The nom de tune of Washington, D.C., native Matthew Hemerlein, Lo-Fang make music for late nights and date nights, both of which, ostensibly, would involve weighty […]
If you’re thinking that there hasn’t been a smoother band around town since the Neighbourhood, that’s where L.A.-based duo Skin Town enters. Comprised of Grace Hall on vocals and Zola Jesus collaborator Nick Turco on beats, the duo came together when Turco and Hall were hanging at a show by the Dream (Zola Jesus had […]
Is that Hall & Oates whom Saint Motel name-checks in their new single “Ace in the Hole?” Sure enough. The L.A. quartet of A/J Jackson, Aaron Sharp, Greg Erwin and Dax are at it again, churning out a brassy and somewhat sassy slice of R&B-flavored pop. The new song, along with the foursome’s summertime release […]
Thank you, Carson Daly, for a weird – or shall we say an eclectic – night of music. The Troubadour on Tuesday hosted the late-night TV host and radio personality’s curated lineup of songwriters for another round of the event “Write the Night 2.” While the evening’s bill featured everything from bluegrass to folk to […]
Somewhere in the depths of the biographical material on Conquistador – beyond the details of his award-winning mustache and his red-carpet shenanigans at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards and cameo with Madness at Coachella – there’s a bit about Alexander Antebi’s affection for Todd Rundgren. Which makes two of us. It’s easy to imagine […]
That band playing the early set at White Iris Records night at the Satellite on Wednesday was a curiosity. Going by the name Bonfires (one of several we located on the interwebs using that moniker), they quietly released the album “Future Lives” on Bandcamp in September with a blurb spinning the yarn that it was […]
