White Lies will return August 20 with a third studio album titled “Big TV” via Harvest Records, Â but for now, fans of the Brit post-rock band can take in their teaser single “Getting Even.” Whether you still think they’re a young Editors or happily rejoice in the trio’s announcement, the sonic soundscape of the single […]
Oh, the brooding. The xx won a Mercury Prize for their self-titled debut in 2010, and they continue to go strong with melancholic atmospherics on their the sophomore record “Coexist” (out now via Young Turks). Young Replicant, a/k/a Alex Takacs, also returns as director for clip accompanying the xx’s track “Fiction” to further illustrate Oliver Sim […]
Those high school days as just another surf-punk band are fading into distant memories for Orange County’s Hindu Pirates. Although the new tightly wound guitar rock from the quintet of Austin Ferreira, Casey Snyder, Giuseppe LoBasso, Derek Bostelman and Ben Tinsley still carries the faint scene of the ocean, the single “In the Dark” suggests […]
Night Riots, though unsigned and independent, are not exactly new; as PK, the hard-working quintet has been and in out of its San Luis Obispo County hometown of Templeton spreading the gospel of synth-charged arena rock for several years, fashioning a sound that suggest a glove compartment full of Killers and Cure CDs. But last […]
There is Michael Quattlebaum, he, a cross-dressing half-Jewish gay black man performance artist and poet; and there is Mykki Blanco, she, the fierce female acid punk rapper alter ego, who shows multiple sides of her persona on the eclectic eight-track EP, “‘Betty Rubble: The Initiation.” She has stated her four role models are GG Allin, […]
Somewhere between the bright colors of cosmic country and the dolorous shadows of pop noir lies the music of White Dove. The L.A. trio of Alex Johnstone, Jack Long, Carl Harders spent much of the past decade going by the name Monster, cultivating ethereal vignettes around the delicate quaver of Johnstone, who sings like she’s […]
Fans who can’t get enough of candy-coated electro-pop and its big hooks and its saccharine melodies and its cherubic gang vocals will want to latch onto FMLYBAND. Fans who immediately recognize that “Electricity” plunders M83’s “Midnight City” are going to want to break a glowstick in two. There’s not much more to say than that, […]
As they gear up for a summer festival tour (featuring a hologram Ol’ Dirty Bastard) and on the heels of their triumphant Coachella performances, the Wu-Tang Clan are back in the studio at work on a new project titled “A Better Tomorrow,” due out this fall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their classic debut “Enter […]
Anybody else remember how monumentally special Nine Inch Nails’Â “Wave Goodbye” night on Sept. 11, 2009 at the Wiltern Theatre felt? Turns out it was just a goodbye-for-now. How to Destroy Angels mastermind Trent Reznor has brought his other project out of mothballs, announcing Wednesday that a new NIN album “Hesitation Marks” would be out Sept. […]
Song groupings for $1,000, please: “Kids” by MGMT, “Where the Kids Are” by Blondfire, “Naked Kids” by Grouplove, “Kids” by the New Division. And now to make it a furious five, “We’re the Kids” by L.A. trio Parade of Lights. For better or worse, all embrace the notion of fleeting youth and the fuzzy nostalgia […]
