Haroula Rose‘s latest record “These Open Roads” offers many of the songstress’ graceful ballads and soothing folk, but she’s been writing with brighter color and faster tempos on her way to her forthcoming album, which is set for a release later this year. Her follow-up “So Easy” (out June 4) foreshadows a sunny retro-pop sound, […]
Summer’s approaching and if you don’t feel it just yet, blast any of of Baby Monster‘s songs and that should do the job. Although they’re mostly known for their remixes of Gorillaz, Ellie Goulding and Foster the People, Daniel Sternbaum and Marty Larson Xu now have new original material to follow up their self-titled 2011 […]
Three years ago, Chris Price fronted a major-label band that recorded an album costing who-knows-how-much with A-list producer Tony Berg. Next week, Price will be featured on iTunes for an album he recorded for $10. The Florida-bred singer-guitarist made all of his solo debut “Homesick” on his iPhone, using a ten-buck application called 4 Tracks. […]
It only took four singles for Saint Motel to finally reveal the release date and title of their forthcoming album. However, with the announcement of their latest, “1997,” – another high-energy, theatrically inclined song with a grand entrance and shiny keyboard riff – we now know that their debut record “Voyeur” is slated for a […]
Warships arrived last fall with batch of demos [including “Haymaker”] that boasted some slippery melodies and nifty choruses. It turns out that L.A. quintet of Eric Chirco, Edson Choi, Elliot Craig, Timothy Pai, and John Ransom Tucker had plenty more where those came from. Their debut album, made with producer Raymond Richards and mixed by […]
DWNTWN’s new single “See My Eyes” is a work of synth-pop precision, dreamy but not delirious, breathy but not breathless, sweet but not oversaturated. It’s the latest in a long line of electro confections to emerge from the L.A. duo of Jamie Leffler and Robert Cepeda – who, believe it or not, first bonded over […]
Dublab, the nonprofit Internet radio station, DJ collective and general dispensary of positivity, marks 13 years as a Los Angeles concern this spring, and to help gain momentum for its biannual pledge drive (they call it “Proton Drive”), they turned to a founding member to stoke the flames. Daedelus has composed an original “Theme Song,” […]
L.A. audiences are accustomed to catching only glimpses of Xander Smith – when the strobe lights hit him right, or when his black-dressed figure emerges from the fog when he’s fronting his long-running shoegaze band Run Run Run. So it’s a minor shock to the senses to see him clearly, and clearly dialed back, on “Hey […]
Chop Love Carry Fire – the triumvirate of singer-bassist Jeremy Toback (Brad), guitairst Joel Graves (Everest) and drummer Butch Norton (Eels) – carved out a slot in our music mixes last August with their self-titled debut EP. The song “Save” from that EP gets quite a video treatment from L.A.-based animation company Shipmate Title, which […]
File under: This will more than suffice until we get the follow-up to “Get Color.” L.A.. noiseniks HEALTH today unveiled the first song from the soundtrack to the gritty video game “Max Payne 3,” and Rockstar Games (which released the title today) could hardly have recruited better composers to serenade the adventures of their violent […]
