Marie Moreshead has had a busy year writing, writing and writing. Since teaming up with producer Doctor Rosen Rosen, she’s been the sweet voice coming through your headphones on songs by Wanderhouse. Now she’s begun another project where she records under the moniker Ofelia. The “Hamlet” character may initially come to mind with the name, […]
If gypsy symphonies aren’t your thing, one listen to Ghostlight Orchestra’s debut EP “Haunted by Shapes, Part 1” might quickly sway your stance. The Venice-based seven-piece band fronted by former Audiovent vocalist Jason Boyd (whose kin includes Incubus vocalist Brandon Boyd) and pianist Nikki Brown have created a majestic world where spaghetti-western and gothic density […]
Bulletin from the most revivalesque of our Los Angeles crop of revivalists: Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, the nine- to 13-member collective who came on the radar late last year singing the praises of the original Fab Four (“MMLJ,” of course), return this week with their “Burn Brightly” EP. Produced Matt Wignall (Cold War Kids, Mando […]
If your music collection if filled with jangly rock bands who favor pop sounds from the ’60s and ’70s, then UCLA-based quartet Owl Fly South may be a welcome addition. Braeden Henderson (Torches), Oliver Dobrian, Jake Stein and Baxter Bailey write with a garage-rock foundation, but the shifts in one single song range anywhere from […]
“Ghost,” the first single from RÃJ, is an arresting collage of musical elements that at the very least lives up to its name. Kicking off with samples of a child’s voice, the sparsely produced ballad wraps its oozing melancholy in a veil of mystery and nostalgia. All very impressive for the debut of the 20-year-old, […]
Indie-rock quartet LA Font will headline Chinatown’s Local Music Stage at a matinee show on Sunday, Oct. 6, in conjunction with CicLAvia’s Heart of LA event. Chinatown will be one of five hubs that day for CicLAvia – quarterly events that temporarily rids major thoroughfares of cars in favor of bicyclists, skaters and pedestrians. Chinatown […]
Longtime bearers of the California cosmic country torch, Beachwood Sparks resurfaced last year with the sparkling album “The Tarnished Gold” – the band’s first release since their original Sub Pop heyday from 2000 to ’02. It turns out there was some pre-heyday magic that is only now seeing the light of day. Shelved at the […]
It is somehow comforting to hear that, after all these years, Gabriel Hart still has issues. Not to wish duress on anybody, mind you, but Hart’s high-strung relationships with seemingly everything in his orbit make for such fun music. As the chief instigator in L.A. nine-piece Jail Weddings, Hart seems either on the verge of […]
If there’s a tune to soundtrack your last few hours of daydreaming at the office, this is where dreamy two-piece Boardwalk steps in. The duo comprised of Mike Edge and Amber Quintero releases yet another serene single titled “High Water,” with its ethereal guitar tones, brushing percussion and velvety-textured yet molasses-slow vocals. Its Alfredo Lopez-directed video doesn’t […]
In an attempt not to take everything so seriously – y’know, like our nation’s Texas Problem – we share this mockumentary from the comedy collective Jash. It dissects the Quebec-bred, L.A.-based indie-rock band Islands and their new album “Ski Mask,” which like much of the music on Islands’ four preceding albums is fun and quirky. […]
