The Bots have been at it since they were kids … except guitarist Mikaiah Lei and drummer Anaiah Lei still kinda are. They’re 20 and 16 years old, respectively, but they have the souls of their elder blues rockers, and it’s not hard to invoke the name of Jimi Hendrix (and here we genuflect) during […]
We know Gavin Turek can sing and shake it, but we know more importantly that her songwriting chops are what’s gotten her noticed in the first place. Turek’s still at the forefront of producing and collaborating with some of today’s rising electronic stars (Tokimonsta, Com Truise) and lending her voice when she can to other […]
Can’t wait to see Jagwar Ma at Coachella? Watching the Australian psych-dance outfit dance underneath a rainbow-colored sky full of stars in the Californian Mojave dessert might have to do for now. Directed by frontman Jona Ma’s brother David, the clip visually accompanies the Madchester-happy track “Uncertainty.” It’s the very track in which Jagwar May pulled […]
The ranks of Busy Living have grown since singer-songwriter Mike Moonves (ex-Chief) first debuted the project. Moonves, now joined by Jared Sohnen, Drew Philips, Matt Leddy and Tim Hutton, has been working on music to follow up an EP that he released in 2012. The folk-rock outfit’s new single “Lie Better,” produced by Jim Eno […]
From the moment Yuck released the scrappy “Get Away” off their 2011 self-titled debut, the U.K. indie-rockers earned applause from shoegaze fans around the world, and they kept the momentum going with last year’s sophomore album “Glow & Behold.” It’s funny how much the London band has grown since, though, considering they lost former frontman […]
There’s five decades’ worth of sweet soul music wrapped up in the vocals of Jessica Childress, and more than a little bit of tenacity, too. A native of Lancaster who attended Pepperdine University, she’s a refugee of the television show “The Voice” (“I want to marry her,” Adam Levine blurted after she nailed Bruno Mars’ […]
When Incan Abraham first hopped on our radar back in 2011, we knew they had the psych-pop chops that would resound near and far. So when the L.A. quartet teamed up with Lewis Pesacov (Fool’s Gold, Foreign Born) on last summer’s  “Tuolumne,” we had good reason to believe their forthcoming album would yield even more remarkable […]
Life at the mall can get pretty interesting sometimes, right? So it is with Chromeo’s Dave 1 and P-Thugg – joined here by guest Chaz Bundick (Toro Y Moi) – as escapades escalate and high jinks happen and, as we suspected occurs all the time in malls, mannequins come to life. The song is from […]
L.A.’s Baywood makes the kind of unadorned, sincere folk songs that put a smile on your face, and are liable to stick your head too. The band is a collaboration between Joe Ginsberg and Jarrad Kritzstein, who played in the rootsy Audra Mae & the Almighty Sound and bonded, as their bio points out, “their […]
That was fast. Barely two months after sizzling L.A. duo De Lux unveiled their free debut EP, the band is back with bigger news: They’ll return April 8 with their debut album “Voyage,” coming via Innovative Leisure. Built around the collaboration between Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco, the band metes out funky disco-punk as if […]
