Rebecca Coleman and her band mates in Pageants have taken things slowly since they first emerged in 2011. The 21-year-old singer-guitarist and founding member of Avi Buffalo, along with guitarist Devin O’Brien and drummer Dylan Wood, has cultivated her strummy, laid-back West Coast pop in live show after live show, Pageants’ calling card – Coleman’s […]
Fonda stayed in hibernation from 2003 to ’11 – family life, days jobs and such – but once the L.A. band released the fuzzy, Britpop-inspired “Better Days” last year, we knew we were getting more. And those who regularly find themselves smitten with ’90s dream-pop shoegaze and a hint of twee melody will agree that […]
As we found when he fronted the sorely missed quartet Foreign Born, Matt Popieluch has one of those voices that belongs in the jetstream. Or somewhere in the clouds, which is where you’ll find much of the solo material he makes as Big Search. The solo album from 2010, “Lay of the Land,” found Big […]
Black Rebel Motorcycle is back, not just with their characteristic roar but with some spacious, ambient moments as well. The trio of Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been and Leah Shapiro recently announced that their seventh full-length (or sixth if you discount the 2008 instrumental album), “Specter at the Feast” would be out March 19 via […]
To hear the music of band that bears his name, it’s easy to imagine the mythological character Herbert Bail trudging down some dusty backroad, holes in his shoes and cactus needles in his pants, toting a wooden handcart bulging with a guitar, accordion, horns, viola, banjo and assorted tools of the trade. All Mr. Bail […]
Of Los Angeles duo Deap Vally, NME writes that theirs is “the sort of dirty music we need right now.” It would seem so. Singer-guitarist Lindsey Troy and drummer Julie Edwards have created quite a racket in the U.K. with their scuzzy blues – Island Records UK snapped up the band and, having already gigged […]
Juliette Commagere, the former front woman of Hello Stranger, sister to singer-songwriter Robert Francis and the wife of drummer-songwriter-producer Joachim Cooder, has been largely under the radar since touring behind her second solo album, 2010’s “The Procession.” Embarking on writing new material, Commagere holed up in the Arizona mining-town-turned-artist’s-colony of Jerome, almost mile high in […]
Hard rock and ’90s shoegaze have a new baby, and its name is Cobalt Cranes. The duo, whose members consist of Tim Foley and Kate Betuel, just unveiled “Head in the Clouds.” The title track of their forthcoming debut (slated for an April 9 release via Anticc Records) is a fierce grunge slice of garage-punk, which […]
Wanderhouse‘s new single came later than expected, but the wait was worth it. Like the smokey “Use Me Up,” Marie Moreshead and Dr. Rosen Rosen have hit the spot again with breathy vocals, a deliciously addictive melody and sensual synth build-up in “Sugar.” Like its title, the song is simple and sweet, but its best […]
Hands’ long-awaited debut album is titled “Synesthesia,” a condition the L.A. quartet’s fans have been known to experience during two-plus years of increasingly heated live shows. It was evident the foursome of Geoff Halliday, Ryan Sweeney, Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff had a good thing going when they leaked their first demos in late 2010; […]
