The Ross Sea Party has gone and released a really solid indie-rock album, and in an era when good indie-rock seems to have the same cool quotient as driving through Chick-Fil-A in gas-guzzling Oldsmobile. That is, unless you’re a band doing the garage thing, or the retro thing, or the folk thing, or the soul-thing, […]
Elijah Wood stars in the astonishing video for the Flying Lotus song “Tiny Tortures,” off his latest album “Until the Quiet Comes.” The video is the work of director David Lewandowski and posits Wood as the victim of a ballplayer’s worst nightmare – the loss of an arm. In his room with his possessions, the […]
One of the nifty little vinyl releases that sneaked onto the shelves on Record Store Day was a split 7-inch featuring a previously unreleased song from Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, “Give Me a Sign,” and “Raven’s Song,” a tune off Aaron Embry’s breathtaking album “Tiny Prayers.” We missed it a couple months ago, […]
[Maybe it’s because of the recent deluge of covers, including the Record Company’s great EP, Seven Saturdays’ take on the Cure and the songs on the New Limb’s mixtape, but today we were reminded that Buzz Bands LA has a lot of nifty cover songs in the queue. Here we share three – I’ll have […]
If there were ever a song befitting “the happiest breakup ever,” Dani Buncher and Scott Simons have written it. And after reading the story of how the couple dismantled but still stayed together as a band, their band name TeamMate isn’t just cute anymore – it’s endearing. Even if bubblegum pop isn’t your thing, Simons’ […]
Since releasing their second EP early this year, Electric Flower Group (nee Electric Flower) has played a bazillion shows in rooms big and small, all the while inching toward releasing more music. The heavy psych-rock of singer-guitarist Imaad Wasif and drummer Josh Garza has won plenty of fans too – notably, the author of this […]
Math-heads know “Lemniscate” as a geometrical term that refers to figure-8 shaped curves, such as this one: ∞. It’s also the title of the debut album from Vinyl Williams, the nom de tune of musician and visual artist Lionel Williams – a work that might take an infinitesimal amount of patience to sort. “Leminscate” is […]
The Steelwells emerged from Orange County in late 2009 with their “Shallow on the Draft,” a bright, guitar-based EP notable for its colorful melodies and sunny disposition. But unlike a lot of newbies who poked their heads out of the studio at the time, the indie-rock quintet seemed in no big hurry to attempt world […]
Since releasing their debut “Sounds People Can Hear” two years ago, the New Limb has been making all kinds of good noise. The L.A.-based quintet has upped its game as a live act, teased by releasing the should-be hit “Refugees” and shown a keen sense of adventure in recording some choice cover songs, including, memorably, […]
John Russell and Greg Delson continue to keep the ’80s fun and uncomplicated. As Father Tiger, the duo’s straight-ahead analog synth-pop seems almost an anomaly in time of tweaked, vocoded and effects-laden singers, but damn the computers, full speed ahead. Father Tiger’s bright and bouncy new single “Everyone Knows” is off their forthcoming “Winter Solstice” […]
