If Los Angeles trio the Cold and Lovely seem determined to take their efforts out of the realm of “side project,” their “Ellis Bell” EP succeeds in a big way. Owing to the muscular shoegazers and arena-hopping anthemic rockers of the 1990s, the three-piece follows up last year’s self-titled LP with an audacious six-pack of […]
It’s been two years since Goldroom – Josh Legg – released the “Angeles” EP, but a lot of things have changed for Goldroom since then. He released the summer hit of 2012 with “Fifteen” and climbed up the Hype Machine charts once more with the release of “Only You Can Show Me,” proving his talents […]
If you lived through the Dawn of Disco, L.A. synth-pop duo Night Club’s video for “Strobe Light” will bring one of those knowing smiles to your face. If you didn’t, you can watch in wonder as Emily Kavanaugh and Mark Brooks re-create the vibe, with a wink. It’s all so naughty, giving yourself to the […]
L.A.-based trio Dark Furs, comprised of Suzanne May, Chad Phillipps and Garrett Henritz, ratchets up the rock ’n’ roll tension and splashes it with a little psychedelic blues on their single “Concrete Corners.” Sure, “March to the beat of my own drummer” is a well-worn phrase in both day-to-day conversations and rebellious anthems, but May infuses […]
Pretty soon Meg Myers is not going to have any veins left to open. “Desire,” the new single from the L.A.-based singer-songwriter, is another in a line of bloodletters from the one-time Tennesseean, who announced this week that her first EP for Atlantic Records would be out in early 2014. “Desire” features a solo from […]
Brick by brick. That’s how Davis Fetter is building his catalog. When he broke away from the band Venus Infers back in 2011, the Orange County-bred singer-songwriter professed his love for singles and only singles. And unlike many artists in recent years who announce plans to release series of singles and then revert to the […]
Although “She Cut Me” was a nice slice of audio in anticipation of Active Child‘s new EP, “Rapor,” fans finally get an official single off the follow-up to his highly regarded debut “You Are All I See.” Written in a glass house, which also provided the namesake for the EP (“Ra” meaning sun and “Por” […]
Folk singer Jake Smith has been holding audiences rapt as the White Buffalo for nearly a decade. Blessed with a messianic presence and a baritone that seems to originate from the back of a dusty 19th-century saloon, the Orange County-bred songwriter wrestles with all the demons and angels of traditional country music, weaving good, evil […]
Having relocated from Seattle to L.A. to work on his musical career, singer-songwriter-producer Jaymes Young trades in anthems of love and loss, all rendered with an achingly beautiful electro sheen. Young, 23, found near-instant Internet fame a few months ago after releasing his first track, “Dark Star,” quickly followed by mixtape that created even more […]
It’s been a lousy few years for angst. Oh, not the faux-punk, I-only-care-about-cheap-beer angst, or the I’m-so-insecure-I’d-better-snap-a-dozen-more-selfies anguish. I mean the dripping-with-existential-dread, blow-the-doors-off-the-arena angst. (Too many hyphenates? Sorry.) Anyway, the new L.A. quintet Fine approaches that kind of bombast in an artful way; many of the arrangements on its debut album have Radiohead in their […]
