[The music is coming so furiously already in 2012 … Here are some new tracks available from artists we’ve covered in recent months:] Coco Morier, “Ambulance” – New, dreamier track from the newest project of songwriter-producer Nicole Morier, who’s co-authored songs for the likes of Britney Spears, Tom Jones, Junkie XL and Wynter Gordon and […]
On Thursday, I relayed the story of how Nick Logie, Ashleigh Allard and Adam Ashe drove 22 hours from L.A. to Oklahoma City to knock on Wayne Coyne’s door and give him their HOTT MT album as a birthday present. The stunt turned into a 4 1/2-day stay at Coyne’s compound, during which the young […]
There was a certain emotional veracity exuded by songstresses from the ’90s that has been diluted in (most) artists of the generations that followed. The suffocating effects of postmodernism? The bitch-slap immediacy of the Internet age? Maybe one of our learned essayists can do a think piece. Or maybe it’s just me. Anyway, something about […]
Talk about your crazy stunts. Nick Logie of L.A. indie-rockers Telegram, his girlfriend Ashleigh Allard and their pal Adam Ashe last week drove 22 hours to Oklahoma City to deliver a birthday present to the home of Flaming Lips main man Wayne Coyne. What happened last Friday when they arrived unannounced on his doorstep? I’ve […]
Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells are back at slamming R&B, pop, punk and electronica in to one another as they prepare for the release of “Reign of Terror” (out Feb. 21 via Mom + Pop), and we’re glad to hear the follow-up to 2010’s “Treats” does not abandon high decibels. If the album title doesn’t give […]
Where are we, on the fourth or fifth generation of post-punk revivalists? Does that make a re-re-re-re-revival? Not that I’m complaining. Post-punk only loses its potency when the bloat of production or the overt aping of legends smothers it – which, thankfully, is not the case with new L.A. rockers Burroughs. The quartet of singer […]
The new single from Cold War Kids acknowledges changes big and small. In the orbit of the L.A. indie-rock quartet, Dann Gallucci has replaced Jonnie Russell on guitar as the band embarks on making its fourth album. On a larger scale, the Mayan calendar supposedly predicts the end of the world in 2012 (one theory […]
For the better part of three years now, the Silent Comedy has been the SoCal band Mostly Likely to Cause a Foot Injury. Because if the crowd’s not dancing at the San Diego band’s shows, they’re stompin’, and if they’re not stompin’, they’re tripping over the spectacle of a band looks as if it just […]
One thing about Jeffertitti’s Nile last full-length album, “Hypnotic River of Sound”: With a title like that, you don’t need a lot of adjectives to describe what they’re doing. With their guitar benders and reverb-soaked vocals, the psych-rock revivalists have one hand in the 1960s and the other in their parents’ medicine cabinet. And so […]
During the agonizingly long gestation period of Marvelous Toy’s debut album, singer-keyboardist-guitarist Jordan Hudock played a million shows, lent his talents for a time to the Henry Clay People and earned reputation for his apoplectic ways at the piano. In fact, he never met a keyboard he couldn’t go all Jerry Lee Lewis on. Much […]
