Salt Petal’s sophomore release “Sea Monster” is the rare album that imbues the full range of emotions – unbridled joy to aching melancholy – with a full range of sonic influences. The Los Angeles quintet’s musical stew simmers with indie-rock, Brazilian tropicalia, Mexican folk, Cumbia, Argentinian dance and some good ol’ soul – all held […]
We introduced Paper Pilots back in September by sharing a B-side, which is backwards, we know, but “Catch the Lamplight Low” was better than the average B-side. Today, Paper Pilots – the nom de tune of Justin David Bocchieri – officially released their self-titled EP. The lead single (with its intentionally etymologically challenged title) “Lacksadaisical” […]
With a heavy thud, the beginning of Kisses‘ new single hints at the duo’s turn for the dark side of pop … and it’s oh-so-lovely. Although Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson’s debut “The Heart of Nightlife” shimmered with a brighter palette to capture the upbeat life of Palm Springs, it’s difficult to avert one’s ears […]
Tapioca & the Flea have a whimsical, some-would-say-downright-silly name with a whimsical, some-would-say-just-plain-fun approach to electronic music. Their early songs, being recorded with Lars Stalfors (Cold War Kids, Mars Volta, Surfer Blood), are influenced by current chillwavers and ’80s New Wavers – sometimes it’s like being sucked into a video game only to find a […]
Speaking of 1990s British rockers – and everybody was a week and a half ago when the Coachella lineup was announced, right – Suede is back. The hyper-romantic five-piece, whom we last spotted at Coachella 2011, today announced that a new album “Bloodsports” would be out March 19. It’s Brett Anderson and company’s first full-length […]
The mainstream crowd knows her as Beyoncé’s little sister, and the indie crowd knows her as the hipper Knowles sister who covered this Dirty Projectors hit back in 2009. Although Solange chose her own route as an artist, she had always been waiting in the wings with her background in theatre and dance while her […]
In some ways, A House for Lions are least cool kids on the L.A. block. They aren’t diving down some wormhole chasing a sound from rock’s dark ages, or turning synths up to 10 to attract face-painters, and in an age when costumes often seem to matter a much as the music, it’s refreshing. What […]
Update: My Bloody Valentine announced just before midnight London time that they have posted their new album to their website. Like many, we suspect, we are getting a “server too busy” message. Previously:
When we first introduced Cassorla back in August, one of the big attractions was Ben Cassorla’s clever, quirky Microsoft Paint graphics for tracks off of his band’s debut EP. Now we get a taste of the forthcoming full-length, “Plastic,” and Cassorla’s arrangements are zany and enticing as ever. From its introductory minimal percussion to its […]
Indie-rock trio Torches is rebounding from a 2012 that can be characterized in a lot of ways – let’s just call it adventurous. They followed up two EPs released under the name Torches in Trees by unveiling their fine debut album “Heads Full of Rust.” They played a zillion gigs. And as the year closed, […]
