Meg Myers came out of nowhere – well, actually a diner in Echo Park, via a church in Tennessee – early last year to plant her flag in the fertile soil once tilled by the like of Dolores O’Riordan and Sinead O’Connor. Myers’ six-song “Daughter in the Choir” EP was a mix of razor-sharp rock, […]
Hot As Sun’s blissful debut “Night Time Sound Desire” came out two weeks ago on Last Gang Records, and even if you’re not the disco type, it’s an album that works for the dance floor in your imagination as well as sweaty clubs. The new video for “When We Fell” stars Jeremy Allen White and […]
Sometimes misfortune can lead you down unexpected paths. So it was with singer-songwriter Brandi Emma, whom we last spotted aiding and abetting Charlie Clark on his new EP. During a time she was injured and not able to play guitar, Emma found herself hanging out with friends Steven Evanne Heinstein and Thomas Schobel in Schobel’s […]
It’s been a year and a half since quintet-turned-sextet NO released its free EP and defied the laws Googleable band names by becoming a favorite on the L.A. scene. So there were plenty of sing-alongs at the Echo Park band’s first big show of 2013 on Thursday when a sizable number of Eastsiders flocked to […]
Far be it from us to nitpick anybody’s release strategy, but in teasing their forthcoming full-length debut, L.A. quartet Hands leaked two songs before finally unveiling the new version of “Brave Motion” this week. Make no mistake, “Brave Motion” is the single, folks – the best entrée into the deliriously polyrhythmic, densely textured and vocally […]
The urgency of the synth-wielding post-punk bands of the 1980s provides the undercurrent for “VIVA,” the first full-length from L.A. Girlfriend. The nom de tune of Loyola Marymount product Sydney-Allyson Banta, L.A. Girlfriend can be playful and alluring but, as her flirtations with the would-be suitors in the Dustin Muenchow-directed video for “Gentlemen” suggest, there’s […]
Will Courtney makes time stop. Or, at least, the bear-huggable singer-songwriter slows the world down to a manageable pace. Courtney, known as Brother Will to the many friends he has made in the many places he has lived (he’s received mail in Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles and now Santa Fe, N.M.), crafts folk music that’s […]
L.A. experimental pop band Body Parts can be strange and beautiful, and beautifully strange; it’s hard to deny the entrancing yet odd things they do both sonically and visually. And what have they done to accompany the marvelous single “Rest While You Sleep?” They went to Death Valley and Venice Beach to practice tai-chi. The […]
It’s been nearly two years since our ears were graced with KING‘s EP “The Story.” The soul trio of twins Paris and Amber Strother, along with Anita Bias, came out of nowhere in June 2011 with three breathtaking tracks, and even opened up for Prince, but went underground soon after. We can only hope KING […]
Since we premiered the first song from Western Lows back in January, the L.A. trio’s debut album has found a nice home. “Glacial” will be out June 4 via local imprint JAXART Records (whose recent releases include Incan Abraham, So Many Wizards and Steffaloo, among others). Western Lows, of course, is the new vehicle for […]
