The Orwells have been creating quite a buzz since their SXSW debut, so it’s not a surprise that the Chicago-based garage-rock group, comprised of five 17-year-olds Mario Cuomo, Grant Brinner, Henry Brinner, Dominick Corso and Matt O’Keefe, came out of that swarm with a new deal. Autumn Tone, the Aquarium Drunkard-affiliated imprint, will release their […]
7Lions, “Born 2 Run” – Now that the Kings are toting around the Stanley Cup, we feel compelled to acknowledge the song that, ostensibly, got them their hardware. (We’re not fully conversant in jock rock, but do other pro teams in L.A. have “theme songs” as the Kings have had?) Anyway, “Born 2 Run” is […]
The first EP from Future People feels far too precise to have sprung from a casual collaboration, but that’s how the L.A. quartet started: a bunch of talented guys who happened to be living under one roof. Originally the brainchild of drummer-programmer Dan Marcellus and singer-guitarist Chris Cosgrove (and now featuring bassist Larry Sheffey and […]
Wake Up Lucid doesn’t make nice. Not musically, anyway. The band of cousins – Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca – mete out scuzzy blues you imagine sprung from gear that barely works, seething with emotion and crackling with defiance toward those who would water down rock ’n’ roll for the digital age. After thundering onto […]
One minute, Amanda Jo Williams is in the cosmos. The next, she’s in control. The Georgia-bred, L.A.-based songstress is hard to keep up with over the 43 minutes of her new album “The Bear Eats Me” (out Tuesday on Neurotic Yell Records), but that’s half the fun. The other half is playing free association with […]
Sarah Negahdari calls her musical tangent as Pisces her “mystic pop side project,” and judging from Pisces’ forthcoming debut EP, she is every bit as comfortable as a dream-weaver as she is an agitator fronting the indie-rock band the Happy Hollows. The EP is the first in a series of music Negahdari has recorded with […]
If you like Laurel Canyon music that sounds like it’s been splashing around in the pool for a bit on a hot summer day, Drug Cabin‘s acoustic songs and their hint of sun-dappled, psychedelic pop may be just what you need. The duo comprised of Nathan Thelen (of Pretty Girls Make Graves and Moonrats) and […]
See if this makes sense: Beachwood Sparks were ahead of their time at going back in time. When the quartet first emerged in 2000 with a self-titled album, it marked a revival of the cosmic California folk of Gram Parsons, and that release and 2001’s “Once We Were Trees” proved worthy additions to that music’s […]
