I’m not sure what it is about punk bands and their affinity for the Grim Reaper, but the audio antics of Portland’s psych-rock group Aan are perfectly paired with this Mike Wilson-directed clip for their 7-inch single “Mystery Life.” What are you supposed to do when the Grim Reaper is out to get you? The answer […]
No group in Los Angeles has left a bigger musical footprint the past decade than the members of Rilo Kiley. Besides four albums starting with 2001’s “Take Offs and Landings,” the quartet has bred solo careers, side projects and other collaborations. Siren Jenny Lewis made two solo albums (one with the Watson Twins) and paired […]
If you weren’t around for Summer of Love or the Human Be-In – and we somehow suspect that most of you weren’t – find the photo gallery of your choice and listen to “Coast to Coast,” the new single from the Blank Tapes. (Heightening your experience in any other way is strictly optional, mind you.) […]
Hot As Sun wear their affectations just so, from their playful take on ’80s disco to … well, dahncing, dahlings. On their forthcoming album “Night Time Sound Desire,” the trio of Jamie Jackson, Deborah Stoll and Waz concoct a world in which you can fall in and out of love in four dizzying minutes, after […]
After meeting in the Environmental Analysis program at Pomona College, Merritt Graves and Skylar Funk got together to save the world by being involved with Farmscape and Agrisaurus to promote awareness around solar and other renewable energy. However, the sing-along alt-pop songs they write together as Trapdoor Social would never have you thinking about such […]
/iframe> Sam Spiegel’s Maximum Hedrum has released a video for “Keep In Touch,” the first single off the group’s self-titled debut album due on March 19. The video was co-directed by Spiegel and Christopher Neil. Inspiration comes from the story of Javier Silcook, a young man with cerebral palsy and his relationship with his mom […]
Points to Hustle Roses for truth in advertising – there’s plenty of hustle and bustle on her first mixtape, “Bitters.” A combination of dancefloor-friendly synth-pop, wonky interludes and sharp lyrics, “Bitters” is the brainchild of Olivia “Ollie” Stone, aka Hustle Roses, who carved out some space in our playlists as the singer-guitarist in the pop-rock […]
The first proper EP from Warships’ is so bright and propulsive it’s hard for us to sit still. When the SoCal quintet first brightened our mood last May, they had an album finished and seemingly ready for release, but things apparently take time. “Shadows,” produced by Raymond Richards, came out this week, with Eric Chirco, […]
Pam Shaffer makes chamber-pop for dimly lit chambers. The meditations on her second album, the fan-funded “It Is Happening Again” (out this week) seem to materialize from the shadows of a roomful of old things, illuminated only by a single candle. Piano, guitar, strings and Shaffer’s plaintive vocals conspire to draw slow-mo vignettes on “Orpheus” […]
There’s probably a riveting docu-drama waiting to be made about the life and times of Annie Hardy, the rail-thin singer-guitarist who roared out of Orange County eight years ago as party of grunge-gaze (OK, we just made that up) duo Giant Drag. Hardy’s prickly and hilariously R-rated observations and her wounded-waif persona made Giant Drag’s […]
