Last month, Fol Chen debuted the video for “In Ruins,” which was shot by director Chris Wilcha (“This American Life”) in Iceland. Today the L.A. art-pop collective springs a new video for another track off their sophomore album “Part II: The New December” – “The Holograms.” It’s a riveting, noirish piece directed by Keith Musil […]
Foo Fighters lead guitarist Chris Shiflett has traded in his Gibson grit for Telecaster twang with his latest project Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants. Featuring Greg Leisz (Wilco, Emmylou Harris) on pedal steel and songstress Audra Mae on backing vocals, the self-titled debut, released earlier this month on Le Coq Napoleon/RCA, feels decidedly more […]
The final installment of this month’s Also I Like to Rock series at the Hammer Museum just got a folkie’s touch – Ferraby Lionheart will give a special acoustic performance Thursday to kick off an evening featuring rock sets by Voxhaul Broadcast and Chasing Kings. Lionheart, born and now based in Nashville after spending substantial […]
Halloween Swim Team gave us a happy new year 18 months ago with its debut album “The End of the Sky,” and now the L.A. trio is setting is sights on a bigger project – a series of six EPs leading up to the release of a new album “ANTENNAAA.” The first finds HST very […]
In 2004, Gram Rabbit unveiled a debut album “Music to Start a Cult To.” The title was prescient. Six years later, the Joshua Tree quartet indeed has a cult following – but, mystifyingly, only that. Despite having released two more albums of some of the most far-thinking, far-out psychedelic disco around, membership in the “The […]
“Fever” is the sophomore album from Santa Cruz retro-rockers Sleepy Sun, seeking to build on a well-regarded debut of stoner riffage and psych-folk. Here, the band are at their best when they keep it concise: the close harmonies and crashing outro of “Freedom Line” and the buzzing contemplative “Acid Love.” “Ooh Boy” is muted, pensive […]
Bands come and go in our fair city, to tell you the truth I hadn’t thought about Solare since around 2007, when they released their shoegazey “The Story of the Moon” EP. Turns out there was good reason – the band was on the DL (that’s sports for Disabled List). Guitarist Josh Johnson had back […]
Horns blazing, the Walkmen teased the Sept. 14 release of their new album, “Lisbon,” last week by releasing the song “Stranded.” But don’t think the NYC quintet is going all N’awlins on its Fat Possum release. “I guess it sounds more like our last record, ‘You & Me,’ than a lot of the other songs […]
Happy Monday. Here, a few days late, is last week’s edition of the Buzzsicle. Ahem. A very random selection of new and used tracks, it is, and where else are you going to find Au Revoir Simone and some ex-Dance Hall Crashers on a single mixtape? Enjoy. Comment. Thanks. After the jump, the tracklisting and […]
I’m pretty sure that if Superhumanoids had a band name that didn’t sound so cartoonish (just sayin’), I would have fallen for them sooner. Instead it took me a while – and the release of their “Urgency” EP – to latch on to their infectious tunes, which feature a cool garagey edge, a synth-pop sheen […]
