Sometimes you have to travel all the way to the other coast to find what you’re looking for, and that’s what guitarist Vincent Frederick and bassist Jenny Pirch, two Detroit-to-LA transplants, realized when they bonded over their love for two-part harmonies sung by the Everly Brothers. Although Fredericks already had success using the Singles as a […]
The Walcotts certainly aren’t the only band on the L.A. scene trying to extract more juice out of ’60s and ’70s Americana – in this case, the Band – but they are definitely squeezing the hardest. Formed from the ashes of the classic rock outfit the Riders and musically centered around singer-guitarist Tom Cusimano and […]
And the point of this new video for “Young Rut” from PAPA is … Darren Weiss, Daniel Presant and gang can rock your shirt and pants off, as well as your socks? Not really. It’s the fable of a whirlwind laundromat romance that’s torn asunder. Cute stuff. By now you should know that PAPA’s full-length […]
L.A. quartet King Washington played it straight ahead on its 2012 debut “The Gears,” a statement that whether engaged in blues-rock, Americana or classic pop, singer-guitarist Tyson Kelly and crew knew their craft. Kelly, along with George Krikes, Billy Lee and Lucas Ventura, already have a follow-up album ready. “The Overload,” due Aug. 27, is […]
Sometimes you need some blues to tide you over. Los Angeles trio the Record Company – singer-guitarist Chris Vos, bassist Alex Stiff and drummer Marc Cazorla – are working on a full-length follow-up to their “Superdead” EP. In the meantime, the new song “Feels So Good,” which lives up to its title, found a home […]
The songs on Wild Betsy’s debut EP “Hypnopompic” sound as if they might have a secret past. The young L.A. trio of singer-guitarist Tad Ha, bassist Marc Aren and drummer Mark Mallory deal in dark psych-pop that you imagine emerged from nasty ’60s hangover. “Whirlwind” announces itself with some insistent guitar and twisted soul; the […]
Since he arrived in Los Angeles from North Carolina, Jonathan Wilson has established himself as one of this era’s generational bridges, connecting the Way It Was to the Way It Can Be. Along with artists such as Dawes and Jenny O, the singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer has rekindled the California rock sound of the ’60s […]
Indie-pop quartet Max and the Moon found last year that the fastest way to get out of their native Chino Hills was to make songs that you can’t get out of your head. Which they did, with their single “Out of My Head,” and the rest of their debut EP “The Way I See.” The […]
Portland expatriates Soft Metals can induce the most colorful of trances. The L.A.-based duo of Patricia Hall and Ian Hicks raised their game with the July release of “Lenses,” their second full-length for Captured Tracks. It’s an album of futuristic sad disco, slick and layered in complexities but not so machine-made that it loses its […]
Kan Wakan, the septet whose cinematic fusion of rock, soul, classical, Americana and psychedelia immediately won fans in its home base of Los Angeles and beyond, will headline the 75th annual Chinatown Mid-Autumn Moon Festival on Saturday, Sept. 21, in downtown L.A. Signed to Verve Music Group, Kan Wakan is expected to announce the release […]
