The legend of Haim is growing far faster than their catalog. Sisters Este, Danielle and Alana (and their “mister,” Dash Hutton) have released but one three-song EP (surely you’ve heard “Forever” by now), and some remixers have gotten their mitts on it too, but the L.A. quartet is already signed to the Polydor label in […]
With his band the Santa Fe Seven, Maxim Ludwig embraced an intelligent, fun and unironic take on classic rock. His new project Drive He Said is similarly grounded in the classic too – the quintet that features Ben Reddell, Jorge Balbi, Will Walden and John Gilbertson sounds a little bit like the Boss if he […]
Dekades like things dark and delicious. The new band led by guitarist Arden Fisher (who plays in Omniflux) does more to soundtrack the spooky season on its first single “Dark Horse” than all the kitschy Halloween songs we’ve heard in the past week. Layers of guitars, dirty electronics and feverish vocals almost make you feel […]
Nico Vega siren Aja Volkman is a mom now, and at some point next year she’ll likely begin to juggle motherhood with being a rocker, when the L.A. trio’s long-awaited, eagerly anticipated second album comes out. To tide fans over, Volkman, guitarist Rich Koehler and drummer Daniel Epand today released a video for the synth-spiked […]
In early 2011, we noted the mind-boggling, ear-tickling ThreeSixFive Project undertaken by Brooklyn-based Ace Reporter. There, the songwriter born Chris Synder had written and released a song every day for the entirety of 2010, and the result was not only a feat of quantity and persistence but of remarkable quality. [All of ThreeSixFive still resides […]
Professor Possessor are wacky. They’re dark. They’re punk, and they boast former member of the brainy pop ensemble Big Moves – Jesse Imme – along with Scarlet A. Newman-Thomas, Jacob Summers and Hayden Hall. Forming in late 2011, Professor Possessor has explored the experimental realm with their own brew of garage-wave, witch-pop, dark wave and […]
Lady Danville, the harmony-rich L.A. trio whose roots date to friendships started in UCLA’s Awaken A Cappella ensemble, is breaking up. Guitarist Dan Chang and keyboardist Michael Garner announced in a Facebook post on Saturday that they are parting ways with percussionist Matt Frankel. Chang and Garner plan to continue under a new name (“Suggestions […]
Two guys with distinguished backgrounds in indie rock get their heads together. They depart their comfort zones. They try something completely new (for them), and currently fashionable. They call themselves Night Terrors of 1927, and they don’t want you to know about their distinguished backgrounds, at least not until you hear the music, lest their […]
Golden Animals seemed to vanish from the Los Angeles landscape as mysteriously as they appeared. The itinerant duo of Tommy Eisner and Linda Beecroft materialized out of the California desert in 2008 with a stellar album of vintage-sounding psychedelic blues titled “Free Your Mind and Win a Pony” – next-gen hippies who were more concerned […]
For PAPA, 2012 has been the year of growing slowly. The more everybody heard 2011’s “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find” EP, the more everybody liked it. And the more often Darren Weiss, Daniel Presant and gang played live, the less everybody thought that a good rock band was hard to find. The first […]
