It’s been two years since KING released “The Story,” a stunning 3-track EP that captured the hearts of fans such as Erykah Badu and Questlove. But twin sisters Amber and Paris Strother and friend Anita Bias are about to take the world by storm with their debut full-length. A 10-track album that bears the same […]
Rainbow Jackson thrashes around in the dizzying space between today’s next-wave garage rockers and Stooges-inspired power-pop of the 1970s. The L.A. quartet of Chad Carlisle, Sam Daggett, Laith Khalaf and Andy Ford play as if they’re daring someone suggest they clean it up – which, happily, they haven’t and probably won’t. Their newest three-minutes blast […]
Smallpools are Sean Scanlon, Beau Kuther, Mike Kameran and Joe Intile. They make unfailingly catchy, bouncy, feel-good electro-pop, judging from their first volley. They sound like Passion Pit, Foster the People and Youngblood Hawke. They are Hype Machine-hot right now because the market can’t seem to get enough of unfailingly catchy, bouncy, feel-good electro-pop. Their […]
“What’s Your Name” may be a common question – especially the morning after a one-night stand – but it’s also the name of NO’s latest single which is now available on their 7-inch single with “Eleven Eleven” via White Iris Records. And just like their romantically dramatic video for breakout single “Stay With Me” off […]
We marvel at this because, at age 23, I’m pretty sure I was still sucking my thumb: Lucy Schwartz’s third full-length album, “Timekeeper,” will be out Aug. 6, the latest chapter in an artistic growth spurt that started when she was at Palisades Charter High (her debut came out in ’07) and then wrote songs […]
On her “Daughter in the Choir” EP, as well as the first single she released after signing to Atlantic, Meg Myers exhibited a feral intensity, whether she was venting in a straight-ahead rock song or in her producer Doctor Rosen Rosen’s electro-addled world. Her new song “Cold,” however, takes Myers back to her singer-songwriter […]
On the surface, there’s not very much folk about Grizfolk, the L.A. trio that for a time was going by the name Griz Adams until, one imagines, they got a threatening note carved in tree bark from a mountain man. There is, however, a whole lot that’s familiar about the first two songs from Adam […]
There’s a new rock quartet in town whose sophisticated pop may include your next breezy summer melody. You can go ahead and thank Northern American for songs like the shimmering “Record Forever” to go with your ice-cold beer beside the pool and the bluesy “Don’t Be a Star” to go down with that warm whiskey […]
Songwriter Robert Fleming’s now-out-of-the-bedroom project Victory made its full-length debut in April with “Victory Is Music,” a declarative that rings true over the album’s 10 tracks of groove-laden, electro-tinged blues. All kinds of influences come to mind – Spoon, Beck, the Dandy Warhols – but what Victory has done is mind its songs, keeping them […]
Since they appeared on the landscape in 2011, L.A. quintet Y LUV have embraced a so-romantic-it’s-almost-squishy take on synth-rock, with diminutive frontman Freddy Janney’s boyish, pleading vocals leading the way over saccharine melodies and danceable rhythms. Their new EP “Take the Ride” (released this week) aims high – lead single “All I Wanna Do” seems […]
