Sixteen-year-old singer-songwriter Alaska Reid is ensconced in Malibu these days, but she filmed her video for “Summer Wind” on a trip back to her native Montana in an area that had recently been ravaged by a wildfire. The Big Sky country topography – and the fact that Mother Nature cooperated by delivering showers and a […]
Raheem Cohen can sound like a old-school funk band one minute, classic rockers the next and soulful disco dudes after that. Sometimes all in one song. But that’s the world in 2013, right? Brothers Miles, Alix and Reece Melendrez, abetted by pals Matt Mumcian and Lukas Frank, are of the generation that sponges up music […]
All hail the guitar band. You just don’t hear that enough lately (well, except maybe on this page). And that’s the way we feel every time Scotty Cantino and his crew in Francisco the Man send another song or batch of songs down the pike. Their latest, “In the Corners” (due Feb. 19 as a […]
Christoph Hochheim may be familiar to fans of the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and the Depreciation Guild, but his sounds under the moniker Ablebody may not. Not as twee the former and not as shoegaze-heavy as the latter, Hochheim’s debut EP “All My Everybody” is an amalgamation of all those dreamy elements in […]
If those guitar licks on LA Font’s forthcoming album “Diving Man” aren’t sharp enough to cut through corrugated metal, then Danny Bobbe’s lyrics and vocals are. They cut through a lot of hipster crap too, and that’s been the L.A. quartet’s big attraction since they unleashed “The American Leagues” in 2010 and followed it with […]
It’s been a long time since “Novocaine for the Soul,” but Mark Oliver Everett is still meting out Ritalin for the brain. “Wonderful, Glorious” (out next week), the 10th album from Everett’s long-running musical persona Eels, reveals the veteran provocateur at his strongest – the album and its spacey, witty and percussive underdog tales rank […]
Matt Caughthran of the Bronx is the first to acknowledge he probably had 100 years of misadventures by the time he was 25. Now 10 years into his career as the vocal shredder in the L.A. hardcore punks, Caughthran lets his hindsight do the talking in the band’s new single “Youth Wasted.” “This song was […]
The youngsters are at it again. Jessie Jones, just 19, is at the helm of those raucous sounds coming from Orange County-bred five-piece Feeding People. Jones, guitarist-songwriter Louis Filliger, drummer Wyatt Blair, bassist Andrew Minter and keyboardist Tomas Dolas have been making kaleidoscopic noises around town for a while, and that noise has earned them […]
Two hours at the Mayan Theatre on Wednesday night with the Airborne Toxic Event, and one thing is for certain: They have refined the craft of crowd-pleasing. The quintet roared out of Silver Lake in 2007-08, black-dressed romantics who were the perfect antidote to indie nation’s arms-crossed indifference. They were fronted by music nerd, aspiring […]
Even with a recorded output of only three songs, Wildcat! Wildcat! dominated a lot of indie playlists in 2012, the L.A. trio’s nostalgia-drenched electro feeding everybody’s appetite for pop ’n’ soul as filtered through those seemingly heartless devices known as synths. The trio of Jesse Taylor, Michael Wilson and Jesse Carmichael has unveiled a new […]
