The new album from O.C. four-piece Audacity is rather ironically titled. “Butter Knife,” the quartet is calling it, and it’s easy to counter with the statement that the album (out this week via Suicide Squeeze) is sharper than that. Unless we’re miscounting, “Butter Knife” is Audacity’s third full-length since last July, this one more fully […]
The pubescent faux-folk that’s barged into the mainstream isn’t really that far from last generation’s emo-pop – swap out the electric guitar for an acoustic, ditch the synths in favor of something your great-uncle played, remember the handclaps/foot-stomping/tambourines and practice, practice, practice those gang choruses. The latest sugar rush comes courtesy of SoCal quartet the […]
Chino Hills’ Vex Ruffin is set to release his self-titled full-length on Nov. 12 via Stones Throw, who signed him after getting an unsolicited demo in the mail (the only artist the label has acquired that way). Combining a variety of influences including primitive electronica, hip-hop, psychedelia and new wave, Ruffin creates understated, beat-driven music […]
In conceiving Best Coast’s new video for the song “I Don’t Know,” frontwoman Bethany Cosentino says she was going for something “super fun and L.A.-inspired without doing anything at the beach like so many of our videos.” So director Patrick O’Dell convened at a Sun Valley skate park, where, Cosentino says, “I got to hang […]
It’s been a while since we heard from Young the Giant, and oh boy, their new direction might surprise you if you were were a fan of their pop-rock hits such as “Apartment,” “Cough Syrup” and “My Body” off their self-titled debut. On their new single, “It’s About Time,” their beachy, laid-back pop vibe has […]
To celebrate the release of their debut full-length “Fire Dream,” Body Parts releases a David Seger- and Aaron Moles-directed video where actress Daniele Watts (“Django Unchained”) goes though a roller coaster of emotions and dreams. Its quirky splices of sci-fi elements and dance moves by the group’s core members Ryder Bach and Alina Cutrono make it […]
Michael Milosh has always been talented at balancing the delicate with the powerful in his music, any fan of Rhye‘s debut “Woman” would agree. But Rhye’s lead vocalist returns to his solo work with the forthcoming album “Jetlag,” an album he’s written out of love, happiness and excitement for the new chapter of his life […]
There certainly isn’t a shortage of boy-girl electro-pop duos in music right now, but if it happens to be your favorite genre Venice’s Scavenger Hunt may be your new favorite band. Comprised of composer Dan Mufson, who’s done his share of writing music for television, and jazz performer Jill Lamoureux, who is also one-half of […]
In sports parlance – not totally inappropriate here, since LA Font’s first EP was titled “The American Leagues” – the Los Angeles quartet’s full-length debut “Diving Man” is like a long touchdown followed by a vicious spike of the football in the end zone. Like a lot of the best 1990s indie-rock that informs it, […]
Here’s another one for you Sarah Records fans. Mirror Days, the new solo project of Graham Harrington, has just the right jangle, just the right amount of melancholy in his vocals and just enough reverb in his dreamy compositions. After his move from Detroit, Harrington quickly became involved in Los Angeles bands Rainbow Blanket, Sceneries […]
