Let’s start a discussion group. Let’s stop shelving our minds in favor of Day-Glo dreams. Let’s start thinking about what we’re doing. Let’s stop pandering to the lowest common denominator in favor of three minutes of ecstasy. Let’s start embracing a higher purpose. Let’s stop thinking that embracing a high purpose is too much work. […]
Los Angeles has a typically strong presence at this year’s Coachella, so we thought it’d be nice to have a soundtrack of SoCal-based artists for the desert. Enjoy, and see you there. After the jump, the titles:
Dear Coachella: This post could be about 38 bands long, but I’m just afraid of getting RSI. I know it’s become fashionable to take potshots at your lineup – I have no idea what warped sense of entitlement that comes from. You have a nice product, and the excellence in the 2013 lineup runs deep. […]
Cold War Kids spread their wings on “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts;” it’s worth getting deep into the L.A. indie-rockers’ fourth album for the electro-based track “Loner Phase,” for instance. The first single “Miracle Mile,” though, is a synthesis of everything Nathan Willett, Dann Gallucci, Matt Maust and Matt Aveiro do well – Willett’s pleading vocals conjuring […]
For Justin Warfield, remixing the new Depeche Mode single “Heaven” was truly a labor of love. “I love that band so much, no matter how much I hear the records they’ve almost become standards to me, and I never get sick of them,” says Warfield, the voice of post-punk revivalists She Want Revenge. “No matter […]
Gifted remixers who’ve aroused expectations on the strength of collaborations with Mayer Hawthorne, Major Lazer, Phoenix and Passion Pit, among others, Los Angeles duo Classixx aim to further impress with their first collection of original material “Hanging Gardens” (due May 14 on Innovative Leisure). Generously making their remixed brilliance available for DJs looking to infuse […]
You can almost hear the floorboards of the saloon creak during Pony Boy’s new single “Greatest Unknown,” singer Marchelle Bradanini’s continuing adventures in casting dark spells over vintage Americana. Bradanini’s Old West soundscapes are places there might be cowboys and there might be aliens, and there certainly are mysterious heroines who can stop either in […]
It’s been more than two years since psych-folk band Young Hunting unveiled their velvet atmospherics, and after a long tour schedule and studio time, their debut full-length “Hazel” is en route June 4 via Gold Robot. There’s melancholic beauty in early tracks “Rust” and “Into Your Mind,” as well as lighter ballads such as “Sweet Bird” […]
Meg Myers came out of nowhere – well, actually a diner in Echo Park, via a church in Tennessee – early last year to plant her flag in the fertile soil once tilled by the like of Dolores O’Riordan and Sinead O’Connor. Myers’ six-song “Daughter in the Choir” EP was a mix of razor-sharp rock, […]
Hot As Sun’s blissful debut “Night Time Sound Desire” came out two weeks ago on Last Gang Records, and even if you’re not the disco type, it’s an album that works for the dance floor in your imagination as well as sweaty clubs. The new video for “When We Fell” stars Jeremy Allen White and […]
