If NO‘s “Stay With Me ” hasn’t pulled on a heartstring or two before, prepare yourself for the single’s touching Ryan Reichenfeld-directed music video. Opening lines “I’m only human” initially takes on an ironic tone once you realize who the stars are, but it doesn’t take long before the sterile environment transforms into a place […]
Letting Up Despite Great Fault‘s frontman and main songwriter Mike Lee may have recently moved to Austin, Texas, but no matter their current location, the band’s shoegaze-infused dream-pop still echos the summery breeze of L.A. with songs like “Stand Still.” Although the previously unreleased b-side track from their “Paper Crush” EP will not be appearing […]
The L.A. indie-folk ensemble Monsters Calling Home started with a song by the name, penned by Alex Hwang about a conversation between an American son and his immigrant father. As folk music has the power to do, it transcended cultures and generations – at least Hwang’s pals thought so. With three friends he met at […]
In the the trickle songs of she’s released so far, Meg Myers has revealed herself as a rocker grrl (“Poison”), strong-willed confrontationalist (“Monster”) and dreamy romantic (“After You”). But it’s her day job as a waitress in a restaurant with hipster clientele that informs the gut-busting track “Tennessee,” featuring her producer and collaborator Doctor Rosen […]
Like her moniker suggests, Ramona Gonzalez has never been quite in the dark. Since the release of 2009’s “Good Evening,” her music as Nite Jewel has always delicately sparkled with a maturity as much as it mysteriously teased with a shrouded vulnerability. The string of EPs that followed touched on chillwave, but Nite Jewel’s recent […]
Their name is not a typo – you pronounce Blacks& “black sand” – but the music from the new four-headed collaboration seems better suited for white sand, as in tropical beaches. Featuring bassist Donald Eley and guitarist Craig “Tiger” Smith (both of whom played with lamentably overlooked indie rockers the Sea of Cortez) along with […]
If you witnessed any of the searing live performances of Vanaprasta late last year, you got the feeling the L.A. quintet was an arena-rock band lacking only an arena. The blood-pumping (and mind-bending) music on its November debut “Healthy Geometry” is perfect for big spaces and bright lights – but, as it turns out, those […]
Don’t you hate secrets? Unless you’re the one keeping them, of course. I’ve been resisting making a big deal out of a band called the Neighbourhood because they’re playing the old cat-and-mouse “secret identity” gimmick, and I’ve always abided by full-disclosure rules: Let me know who you are, who plays what, where your home base […]
Harriet arrived with a bang in November with the kiss-off song-cum-playground taunt “I Slept With All Your Mothers,” the centerpiece of the quartet’s “Tell the Right Story” EP. Frontman Alex Casnoff, who’d played keyboards in the bands Dawes and PAPA, sounded as if he had relationships issues, but it turns out that, like any good […]
Autolux, Aloe Blacc (pictured), Eastern Conference Champions, Chasing Kings, Family of the Year, Incan Abraham and Robert DeLong are among the first round of artists announced to play the Silver Lake Jubilee on May 26 and 27. After the jump, the list:
