The way that L.A. trio American Royalty fuses rock and electronica feels like a dialogue. Certainly, the new song “Honey & Queen” has that vibe – a conversation between crazy rhythms, video-game vocals, tooting synths and druggy guitars. It’s a song Marc Gilfry, Billy Scher and Mat Ungson wrote during their July residency at the […]
The forests of Madrid seems to be the perfect setting in So Many Wizards‘ new Esther Morán Fraile-directed clip for “Lose Your Mind.” Illustrating the track off of the quartet’s debut “Warm Nothing,” the wide-open spaces seem appropriate for a group of young Spaniards to play. However, the editing by MarÃa Antepazo does include some […]
If you’re like us, you dropped a few bucks to help out those affected by Hurricane / Superstorm Sandy (probably by texting “REDCROSS” to 90999, although there are myriad other ways to help). But if you have it in your hearts and wallets to assist some old friends, the SoCal trio We Barbarians – who […]
Putting the video for a song titled “Play” in the hands of kid filmmakers seems like a natural, right? It yielded very fun results for the song from the Correatown album “Pleaides” – an album that has taken on a life of its own since we premiered the first single back in May 2011. “Pleaides,” […]
Few songwriters have found so much fertile soil in the late ’80s/early ’90s as Rich Michalowski, the downtown-based artist who, in the background of day jobs as a radio promotions rep and composer for film and TV, has fashioned some of the hookiest Britpop-inspired songs we’ve heard since New Order had radio hits. His latest […]
Pop duos The Wellspring and Nocturnal Youth will be joined by John Isaac Watters (of Coyol) at Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night on Nov. 13 at Lot 1 Cafe. Yes, that’s one week from tonight. Should be a excellent evening: The Wellspring (Dov Rosenblatt and Talia Osteen) met in New York and have relocated […]
Considering Dov Rosenblatt and Talia Osteen’s meet-cute in real life, The Wellspring is an appropriate name for the duo, who recently relocated from the Big Apple to the City of Angels. Rosenblatt met Osteen when she had discovered his previous band Fools for April while working at a film production company. After finding out Osteen […]
We’re not big fans of lyric videos, but we will make an exception for yOya, a band we love to hear but hate to spell. The Oregon-bred, USC-educated duo of Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich emerged last year with their giddy “Nothing to Die” album, pop that was as fun as it was smart. “Come […]
Brian Whelan makes everything sound so easy – crisp classic rock, tart-and-twangy country, bluesy swagger – that you’d think his first solo outing “Decider” just happened overnight. On the contrary. Whelan’s debut, finally out today via Three Moves Equals a Fire, is the cumulation of four years’ work, done here and there as the singer, […]
Two years ago, when the Little Ones rebooted from the second label misadventure of their career, a new flood of music seemed imminent from the L.A. outfit, whose upbeat, tropical take on indie-pop first brightened our moods back in 2006. Now a six-piece (and featuring two former members of underrated L.A. band Division Day), the […]
