Bloody Death Skull makes music that doesn’t quite match up with their very metal-sounding name, but in no way does that imply Daiana Feuer, Gerard Olson, Beth Breen, Donna Suppipat (also of Tommy Santee Klaws) and Andres Renteria are shy with the subject matters on their latest EP “Oh My Gosh.” From “Girls Like You” […]
“Semi-Sweet” … Well, that’s about right. “Semi-Tart” would be acceptable too. And, perhaps, “Semi-Tough,” although Tijuana Panthers’ new album doesn’t quite pack the punch that the Long Beach trio’s off-the-chain live shows have wielded. The new album, out today via Innovative Leisure Records, mixes beach bunny-inspired surf pop with tallboy-propelled garage rock. It seems forever […]
L.A.’s dark electro duo MYPET may have a familiar face. Comprised of singer-songwriter Amy Kuney and producer Ray Brady, MYPET is on the complete opposite end of the musical spectrum for Kuney, whose songs (especially the notable 2008 album “Bird’s Eye View”) have been rooted in mostly folk-pop. Not unlike Meg Myers’ musical transformation after […]
There’s Amanda Jo Williams’ voice – a playful, birdlike instrument, flitting around her country-fried arrangements like an intrepid hummingbird. And then there’s what she’s saying; she delivers her lickety-split vignettes and stream-of-consciousness observations as if she expects you to be on the same page, immediately. If you missed her first three albums, it’s worth getting […]
When we first discovered You Me & Us early last year, Carlee Hendrix and Ignacio Caniza had just released their “Paperweights” EP, a charming blast of fuzz-rock. They didn’t have a song over 2 minutes and 30 seconds then and their latest song “Swim or Sink” off of their forthcoming Bobb Bruno-produced “Stay Inside” EP […]
Johnny la Rocha knows his classic rock – whatever fertile soil he’s overturning. He does business as Ocha la Rocha, and “Ocha Scores,” his forthcoming album on JAXART Records, demonstrates the he would be equally comfy jamming with the Marshall Tucker Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers or any number of cowboy country guitar-slingers. The album […]
In a broad view, the music of Seven Saturdays is all about Los Angeles – the emotional and geographical sprawl, the grandeur and the grit, the language the city speaks if you hold still long enough to listen. Native Angeleno and composer Jonathan Haskell embraces it all on “Seven Saturdays” (out next week), a collection […]
The spiritual uplift of communal folkies Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros is in full force on “Better Days,” the first single off the 11-member L.A. troupe’s forthcoming third full-length. The album, a self-titled affair, will be out July 23 via Community Music, and this single finds frontman Alex Ebert and crew dispensing their Summer […]
Jubilee Music & Arts Festival – formerly known as Silver Lake Jubilee – reveals its set times for Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8. As previously announced, the Drums, the Black Lips, Free Energy are among its headliners; local acts such as Bleached, Cayucas, Trash Talk, Pangea, the Dead Ships and more were added to the […]
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, all those graduation parties and the down time somewhere on the distant horizon the next three months: the new video for Handshakes’ single “Vacation.” The L.A. outfit’s sprightly power-pop song – think the Weezer or the Rentals with horns – is a giddy excursion that suggests everything you […]
