Sometimes reality, dreams and time cross paths in weird ways, and you’re left with some extremely trippy deja vu. NYC’s eccentric avant-psych/trip-hop duo Cibo Matto play on this experience in their music video for their track titled – you guessed it – “Deja Vu.” Directed by Jean Claude Billmaier, using a RGBD Toolkit and filmed […]
Early this year, Ben Cassorla – dba Cassorla – released the aptly titled “Amigos” EP, which boasted collaborations with Aubrey Plaza, Eric Earley from Blitzen Trapper, Taylor Goldsmith from Dawes, Christopher Richard (aka Crash) from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Krystle Warren, Henry Wolfe and Elizaveta. It displayed the sonic adventurer side of a guy […]
Y’all know Jacob Dillan Summers by now, right? The former Marine drumline drummer with the stripes tattooed on his biceps? The Alaska native who played around Silver Lake and Echo Park for several years with several bands? The songwriter who, as if by magic, appeared at Raymond Richards’ Red Rockets Glare studio in 2011 with […]
As if we don’t have enough mania in Los Angeles, there seem to be two bands operating under the name Maniac in your neighborhood. We’re going to go crazy for one of them: Maniac is singer-bassist Zache Davis, a Seattle transplant and former member of the Girls and the Cute Lepers, who has teamed up […]
Some may recognize Gabriel Garzón-Montano‘s voice from his work with big band EMEFE and in his funk project Mokaad, but the Brooklyn composer and multi-instrumentalist slows things down a bit for his solo material. His debut EP “Bishouné: Alma del Huila” is a captivating collection of songs featuring minimalist structures yet leave a big imprint on […]
* Updated March 11, 2015: PARIS is now going by Paris Radio and has “re-debuted” the song “My Flesh” (new stream below). The Eighties sure are fun. Especially as they are being reshaped by bands who bring more than computers and synthesizers to the table. The music of the new band PARIS (stylized P A […]
The collaborators in the duo Bleach Egg are well-known in art-pop circles – singer-songwriter Kimi Recor has made music in Black Flamingo, then as Draemings and now in TÊTE, and vocalist-DJ-producer Whitney Fierce sang in Hercules & Love Affair. The principals describe the project as “a joke that has gone too far” – they met […]
Singer-songwriter Trevor Beld-Jimenez and his merry band of collaborators in January released a new EP as Tall Tales and the Silver Lining, songs that honed a distinct sound that’s equal parts cosmic California, soul and West Coast pop. It augured great things for the band, who announced this week they have signed to New York […]
Neo-soul trio Moonchild first tickled our ear drums with their previous album “Be Free,” a collection of jazzy songs that also caught the attention of Stevie Wonder, James Poyser and more. The USC alums now release their new single “The Truth” from their latest record “Please Rewind,” and the video comes by way of a […]
In its quest for some sonic and topical higher ground, art-rock can come off as heavy-handed and indulgent. The new material from L.A. sextet Minnow avoid those perils even as it grapples with weighty matters such as life, death and fleeting youth. The band began as the project of guitarists Madison Megna and Kenny Tye […]
