The first thing you should know about the recent exploits of Harriet is that the L.A. quartet’s debut album will be titled “It’s Totally Cool, I Wouldn’t Even Worry About It,” which, as album titles go, is totally cool. Frontman Alex Casnoff says the album will be out “the second quarter of this year,” or […]
We have no idea whether there’s a beach in Fayetteville, Ark., but if one exists, it must have a pretty great view. And a nifty party soundtrack, thanks to an outfit called the Airplanes. The vehicle for songwriting of Joshua Vest, the quartet, which includes Andrew Donovan, Joel Paul and Rob Storms, has but two […]
The broad implication behind Foster the People’s new single is that the band – and, ostensibly, its cherubic fan base – are all “Coming of Age.” In the video created by BRTHR (Alex Lee and Kyle Wightman), frontman Mark Foster, 30-ish now, dues paid, the gold record “Torches” in the bank, is depicted as brooding […]
Jon Siebels was most recently spotted in the original-lineup reunion of Eve 6, who returned in 2012 with their first album in nine years. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, label chief and developer of new talent, Siebels has never been far from the creative process, though, having worked with Monsters Are Waiting, Kenan Bell […]
It’s been almost a year since dream-pop trio Tashaki Miyaki dropped any new music, but that drought will be over Feb. 25 when “Cool Runnings” comes out. The threesome is capable of dropping fuzz-bombs that can shake you all the way back to the 1960s, but the their forthcoming 7-inch is not that – it’s […]
Luis Dubuc’s music as Mystery Skulls is the stuff of electro-pop dreams, all candy-coated melodies and updated ’80s production and giddy rhythms. But Mystery Skulls’ major-label debut, the single “Ghost,” is a nightmare – well, the video is, anyway. Dubuc wrote the song in Dallas before he disappeared in favor of L.A. “The song is […]
Cassorla – the solo venture of multi-faceted guitarist Ben Cassorla – earned a lot of attention when he teased his new EP by issuing a song collaboration with “Parks and Recreation’s” Aubrey Plaza. (The video’s a treat too, with Plaza saxophoning it in on Echo Park Lake.) There are plenty more of Cassorla’s friends on […]
The Los Angeles crew Clipping claim to “make party music for the club you wish you hadn’t gone to, the car you don’t remember getting in, and the streets you don’t feel safe on” – an incredibly apt description for the avant-garde noise-rap that the trio of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes have […]
Kat Primeau has loosed her talents in theater, comedy and music during her time in Los Angeles, even spending some time a few years back in a girl band called Girl Band. Now she has merged skills – and names– with Chris Sousa in the duo Sumeau. At their most restrained, the band’s songs recall […]
Hey, remember pop-punk? Before your various retro movements, the international synthesizer-in-every-pot campaign and the advent of banjo shredding, pop-punk was the hip way to get your ya-ya’s out, whether the music was railing against The Man or rhapsodizing about lost love and alienation. The Dollyrots are still pumping blood into that vein – their fifth […]
