It’s quite possible that Touché would’ve have made a bigger splash by now if the principals weren’t so busy not being Touché. Alex Lilly (Obi Best, the Bird and the Bee, the Living Sisters, et al) is the distaff half of the electro-pop duo, with Bram Inscore (Beck, Thurston Moore, Charlotte Gainsbourg and, currently, Twin […]
A year ago Culprit released its initial “Above The City” compilation, featuring eight tracks from the young label’s stable of artists. An exhaustive process, Culprit aimed to embody the glamor and enchantment of their famed series of rooftop DJ parties presented by Droog (the trio of Brett Griffin, Andrei Osyka and Justin Sloe, pictured, who are […]
One of the prettiest moments on the second Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros album “Here” is the song “Child,” written and performed by guitarist Christian Letts. Through the website Genero.tv, the band ran a contest for fan-made videos. A director named MichaÅ‚ Byra earned the $5,000 top prize for this clip, one of 78 […]
Buzz Bands LA turns 4 this month, and what better way to celebrate than throw a party with three of our favorite L.A. bands? Voxhaul Broadcast, the explosive quartet whose music first came onto the Buzz Bands radar back in our L.A. Times days, will headline the Buzz Bands LA 4-Year Anniversary on Tuesday, Oct. […]
Instead of throwing food in his face, Mike Goldman and Nick Sandler help Chasing Kings frontman Matt Schwartz take on different locales in the video for their latest single “Do It to Myself.” Appropriately released while Chasing Kings wraps up their national tour, the Tessa Neustadt- and Matthew Black-directed clip promotes the track off their […]
Like a lot of rock singers, Katherine Pawlak sounds as if she has issues. At full throttle, the frontwoman of L.A. trio Sad Robot sounds as if she can handle them herself. At turns sultry, playful and angry, Pawlak gives the dirty/pretty stylings of her bluesy power trio a sense of urgency. If you’re a […]
Grammy-winning director Trish Sie is at it again. The videographer/choreographer who masterminded OK Go’s “treadmill” video (for the song “Here It Goes Again” has taken on the Meg Myers song “Curbstomp” and done all kinds of fun stuff. So to speak. Produced by Jason Baum, filmed by Nic Sadler and from a concept by Elizabeth […]
Faris McReynolds is something of a three-pronged attack, with two of his exploits directed at your ears. He’s a painter who is juggling two musical projects – indie-rock explorations as ExDetectives and electronic music as One Finger Riot. He has made two albums as each, with OFR’s latest “Fly By Life” have coming out in […]
Long-running SoCal classic rock quartet the Jigsaw Seen have it down – not a formula, mind you, but a distinct knack for finding gold in the rivers and streams of pop that you’d think would have been played out by 2012. The foursome’s forthcoming album “Gifted” (due Nov. 20) follows 2011’s “Winterland,” a concept album […]
Think the heat wave that Los Angeles the past six weeks was a blast furnace? Wait till you get a load of “Monster Wizard,” the new single from Zig Zags, The latest from the trio of chanter-guitarist Jed Maheu (the ex-Sub Pop PR man), bassist Patrick McCarthy and drummer Bobby Martin (drums) is a heavy-metal […]
