Matthew Mondanile of New Jersey’s psych surf-rock band Real Estate has been plugging away at his side project Ducktails since 2009, and he has come a long way from the lo-fi bedroom pop like “Wishes.” Now preparing for the release of Ducktails’ fourth full-length release and the first to be released on Domino, Mondanile is […]
No sooner had we swooned over Hanni El Khatib’s new single “Family” than the video for the song was released. The work of photographer/videographer Nick Walker, who has extensively documented El Khatib’s young career (as well as the Railroad Revival Tour), the video is a conceptually bonkers romp that Walker files under “Wild Asian Motorcycle […]
Unlike many of their brethren treading in heavy psychedelia, the Black Angels have found a way, over four albums, to not repeat themselves. Their forthcoming full-length “Indigo Meadow” (due April 2) is their best yet, turning their sometimes-bleak, mostly narcotized sheaths of Sabbathry toward the dark and light of a good ol’ fractious boy/girl relationship. […]
We like to make mixes ourselves, but sometimes it’s best to leave it to the professionals, and this taste of the 2013 Coachella Music & Arts Festival was good too not to share. DJ Tim Martell, an instructor at the Scratch DJ Academy, has assembled a mixtape of 52 artists playing this year in Indio […]
Kassia Conway was singer, bassist and one of two instigators (along with drummer Amy Wood, currently instigating in The Donnies the Amys) in the underrated L.A. outfit All Wrong and the Plans Change. Now Conway has set off on her own, using just her surname and surfeit of things to say. The single “Big Talk” […]
Chalk one up for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs – the NYC trio have found a way to gracefully marry gospel and indie-rock. Their new song “Sacrilege” is a nervy, vintage-sounding burner that suggests Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase have gotten some kind of religion. It’s one of the new tunes on the Yeah […]
The most telling moment in the video for the Bleached single “Next Stop” arrives at the close, when all the fun and frolicking is sealed with a wink. Certain viewers might regard that as harmlessly flirtatious; here, we read into it a subtle acknowledgement of the past. Sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin have stepped back […]
If Hanni El Khatib fans were happy to hear a preview of new track “Can’t Win ‘Em All” during the Super Bowl, they’re most likely deliriously giddy about the first official single off of “Head in the Dirt.” Picking right up from his California skate rat days, Khatib – who proved the guns did, indeed, […]
Folk-rocker Anna Rose came on the radar with her 2010 debut “Nomad,” and then earned some notice for her cover of Arcade Fire’s “My Body Is a Cage.” The daughter of Oscar-winning Disney composer Alan Menken spent several years in L.A. soaking up vibes from the city’s Laurel Canyon history, and now back in her […]
The lean and mean riff that announces “Thanks for Nothing,” the opening song on Great White Buffalo’s new self-titled EP, could be the answer to that question Black Rebel Motorcycle Club posed way back when. Part first-album Kings of Leon, a little bit Surfer Blood and recalling Canadian indie-rockers the Stills, Great White Buffalo follows […]
