Lo-Fang’s evocative early releases, featuring a happy marriage of electro-pop and strings, have made his full-length debut “Blue Fin” one of the most hotly anticipated releases of early 2014. The nom de tune of Washington, D.C., native Matthew Hemerlein, Lo-Fang make music for late nights and date nights, both of which, ostensibly, would involve weighty […]
If you’re thinking that there hasn’t been a smoother band around town since the Neighbourhood, that’s where L.A.-based duo Skin Town enters. Comprised of Grace Hall on vocals and Zola Jesus collaborator Nick Turco on beats, the duo came together when Turco and Hall were hanging at a show by the Dream (Zola Jesus had […]
Is that Hall & Oates whom Saint Motel name-checks in their new single “Ace in the Hole?” Sure enough. The L.A. quartet of A/J Jackson, Aaron Sharp, Greg Erwin and Dax are at it again, churning out a brassy and somewhat sassy slice of R&B-flavored pop. The new song, along with the foursome’s summertime release […]
Somewhere in the depths of the biographical material on Conquistador – beyond the details of his award-winning mustache and his red-carpet shenanigans at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards and cameo with Madness at Coachella – there’s a bit about Alexander Antebi’s affection for Todd Rundgren. Which makes two of us. It’s easy to imagine […]
That band playing the early set at White Iris Records night at the Satellite on Wednesday was a curiosity. Going by the name Bonfires (one of several we located on the interwebs using that moniker), they quietly released the album “Future Lives” on Bandcamp in September with a blurb spinning the yarn that it was […]
In September we shared the shreddilicious single “Snakedog” by Together Pangea, and if you scored that 7-inch you’ve already heard the equally meaty B-side “Offer.” But in case you didn’t, we post it here – along with the news that the track will be featured on the band’s major-label debut, “Badillac,” which will be out […]
Folk singer Julie Cain – aka Little Lonely – covers a lot of ground on her debut album, weaving homespun Americana, dark pop and even a little girl-group pizzazz into 11 evocative yarns that feel very much like Cain’s Middle America roots. Indeed, Cain’s bio tells us that her first gig was playing organ in a […]
Morgan Kibby may be mostly known for her major contributions to M83 songs “Kim & Jessie,” “Skin of the Night” and the everlasting “Midnight City,” but now that she’s no longer on tour with Anthony Gonzzlez, her solo project White Sea is taking off again. To follow up 2011’s “This Frontier” EP, Kibby’s released the […]
Despite their temporarily-inclined name, L.A.-based quartet the Visitors may not just be coming and going. The band, whose members are comprised of Jason Forman, Joe ZIzzo, Jeremy Arambulo and Cameron Kem, have an EP with songs that not only entertain but stick with you long after a listen. Theatrically rollicking, the Vistors’ songs such as […]
If you’re watching this video above for the haunting song “This Stone Is Starting To Bleed,” and you find yourself wondering what the Duke Spirit has been up to lately, it’s not a coincidence. The single is by London’s Roman Remains, a duo who shares members Liela Moss and Toby Butler of the Duke Spirit, […]
