Milo Greene was actually born several years back at UC Irvine, where Robbie Arnett, Andrew Heringer and Marlana Sheetz were students. “He was a fictional character who used to send out promotional e-mails on our behalf,” Arnett says with a laugh. Later, when a new musical project gelled between the trio, along with Curtis Marrero […]
Ever since Dawes planted the seed with its album “North Hills” in 2009, the music of the L.A. quartet has flowered. The band was picked up by ATO; the foursome became in demand for its harmony-laden Americana; and, even during frontman Taylor Goldsmith’s detour to work with Matt Vasquez and John McCauley on Middle Brother, […]
You can almost smell the perfume and sweat from the dancefloor in the electro-pop of L.A. quartet Tic Tic Boom, whose swirling synths and disco sheen recall the days of Club MTV more than the cut-and-paste indie electronica that followed. The brainchild of singer-keyboardist Leilani Francisco and guitarist-vocalist Mike DeLay (who expand to a four-piece […]
There’s a sad irony in the fact that the One AM Radio’s video for “Everything Falls Apart” emerged this week, as the band’s label Dangerbird Records retrenched, but that’s shouldn’t detract one bit from glitchy, slow-motion splendor of Hrishikesh Hirway’s tune. On “Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread,” the songwriter/producer’s fourth album and second […]
You could probably write a tome about singer-guitarist James Grundler’s decade-plus adventures in rock music. For his part, Grundler has written songs, plenty of them, and many of which you’ve heard in movies and TV shows. Grundler, who first made noise with the Din Pedals in the late ’90s and then fronted Paloalto for two […]
The video for Voxhaul Broadcast’s single “Leaving on the 5th” was inspired by “Thomas Edison’s’ ”˜Serpentine Dance’ on hand-tinted film,” director Justin Franklin tell Spinner, where the clip debuted today. It works, especially with the song’s pin-prick guitar line and grandiose yearning. The L.A. quartet’s debut “Timing Is Everything,” came out last month after a […]
While a lot of today’s hipster fuzz nods to the girl-group music of decades past, the Damselles & the TC4 simply give the genre a sloppy wet one. No “updating,” no irony: The time-warp R&B dispensed by vocalists Maria De Luca, Jillinda Palmer and Brittney Westover (three familiar faces from the Eastside indie-rock scene) comes […]
Now that they’ve cleared two big hurdles – dispensing with the search engine-clogging band name Black Jesus and surpassing their $3,000 goal on their Kickstarter campaign – it could be off to the races for L.A. indie-rock septet Races. Their first single “Big Broom” (a 7-inch via Jaxart b/w “Cruel & Rude”) comes out later […]
The husband-and-wife music makers Thurlow return with “Through Your Eyes” to follow up their debut single, “The Hour Glass.” While both songs off of their “Spokes” EP showcase lilting melodies on top of their soft electro-pop instrumentation, Jacqueline Caruso’s vocals gracefully slide to the forefront on this new track. Husband Augustus Green has charming intonation […]
The long-awaited album from L.A.’s Eastern Conference Champions, “SPEAK-AHH,” finally arrives April 26, and its distinctive synthesis of twin-guitar atmospherics, aching narratives and rhythm-fueled urgency makes it a keeper. It’s been a steady climb and plenty of artistic growth for the trio since their last full-length, “Ameritown” (2007) – two highly regarded EPs, “Santa Fe” […]
