Modern Time Machines’ don’t make songs as much as they make dervishes, swirling blasts of guitar that sound as if they’ve been picked up by a bold Santa Ana wind and, circular melodies and featherweight vocals intact, deposited in your consciousness like a slap on the ears. The quartet of Ben Golomb, Dean Estella, Satu […]
FIDLAR returns with the fourth and final music video in support of their “DIYDUI” EP, and if you thought a sand-boarding Grim Reaper was odd in the clip for “Wake Bake Skate,” the plot for “Oh” will make that seem like a pleasant daydream. Directed by Ryan Baxley, a day at Joshua Tree gets out […]
Notable new tracks from artists we’ve written about recently: David Shane Smith, “Additives” – The electro-experimental collagist who caught our ears last year with the mind-bending “Shampoo” returns with another track that bends beats, synths, guitars and sundry other noises into something very compelling. And, hey, that’s Christian Bale. Saint Motel, “Honest Feedback” (limited time) […]
Leaps Days like today may inspire some to try different ventures, be braver and perhaps even grow up a little. But the guys in this clip for Moses Campbell‘s new track “Ceiling” remind us how easy it is to just be a kid and nothing else. In a similar vein to infamous best buds like […]
Progressive and electro house DJ Morgan Page first popped up on to everyone’s radar when he released “The Longest Road” in 2008, which featured a then less well-known Lissie. Now a Grammy-nominated artist who is preparing for the release of his fifth studio album, “In the Air” (out April 3 via Nettwerk), Page offers a […]
I don’t quite know how to close the book on Rademacher’s “Baby Hawk” album trilogy except to say that it’s as masterful as music about the music life can be. Ostensibly a body of songs that follow the career trajectory of the mythical indie band Baby Hawk, the albums bristle with morality tales, commentary that […]
L.A. by-way-of Green Bay, Wis., band the Violet Lights may let their Britpop influences overshadow over their NYC garage-rock and indie-pop urges, but it’s certainly not anything to be upset about. In fact, the duo comprised of Joel Nass and Amber Garvey make it hard to believe they even recorded their “Sex and Sound” EP […]
Buzz Bands LA is partying next month at the South by Southwest Music Festival. “DEAR AUSTIN: LOVE, L.A.” brings nine southern California bands to Austin for a kickoff party on Wednesday, March 14, at Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. 6th Street. The showcase (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) is free, no RSVP in necessary and […]
Races is all about esprit de corps – or maybe it’s esprit de chords in this case. The L.A. sextet dispenses uplifting songs for treacherous times, and their we’re-all-in-this-together attitude can make even the harshest deceit seem like a dot on the emotional landscape. So it is with their florid ballad-turned-guitar jam “Lies,” with lush […]
The first two albums from L.A. trio Gliss tread in the footsteps of some of rock’s great shoegazing bands, taking their sometimes-inscrutable wall of sound and ladling on a thick coat of danger and angst. Martin Klingman, Victoria Cecilia and David Reiss had hinted that the follow-up to 2009’s “Devotion Implosion” would be different, and […]
