The video for “Living In The Snow” delivers an artsy extradimensional roller-coaster that should be looping on a public access channel somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. The video, much like Mocky’s new album, “Key Change,” causes you to question the perception of sight, sound and technology. Are you hearing something made by one person in […]
Late Night Friends’ debut album reconstitutes the angst and melancholy of 1990s alt-rock greats into a slightly more modern package. “What I Think I’m Not,” due Aug. 7 via Limited Fanfare Records, is the work of singer-guitarist Barrett Shuler and Jonathan Baron, along with bassist Alex Gallner and drummer Keith Roenke. Recorded with Dead Meadow […]
That deep sigh you heard from the Internet on Wednesday night was the arrival of the new Beach House single, “Sparks.” The indie darlings will release their fifth album “Depression Cherry” on Aug. 28, their past two on Sub Pop having cemented the duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally as the leading contemporary purveyors […]
Caught A Ghost mastermind Jesse Nolan has detoured away from his electro-soul outfit for a new collaboration — with ex-“American Idol” contender and fashion provocatrixe Robyn The Bank (née Robyn Troup). Back in 2006, Troup won Yahoo’s “My Grammy Moment” talent search and performed on stage at the awards show with Justin Timberlake, and since […]
Citing 1960s Pink Floyd and 13th Floor Elevators to everything that came from Creation Records in the 1990s as their common ground, Talk In Tongues loves big psychedelic music. Out of respect for those crazy performance videos of the past that evoked kaleidoscopic vision, as if the camera itself were on acid, the Los Angeles […]
On past releases, Swahili Blonde — the multifarious experimental pop project of singer-songwriter Nicole Turley — has incorporated the talents of an estimable roster of collaborators, including guitarist John Frusciante, Duran Duran bassist John Taylor, Slits guitarist Viv Albertine, Devo drummer Alan Myers, multi-instrumentalist Brad Caulkins (ex-Fool’s Gold), Laena Geronimo (Feels) and Dante White Aliano (Dante vs. […]
New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus on July 28 will release its fourth album, “The Most Lamentable Tragedy,” a 93-minute rock opera on manic depression and its various manifestations that ranks as the most epic work of punk rock since Fucked Up’s “David Comes to Life” in 2011. It’s visceral stuff, musically and thematically, and, says singer-songwriter […]
In the music she has made with Touché and Obi Best, Alex Lilly’s production has leaned toward the jazzy and left-field while her lyrical themes ventured into the playful and subversive. The singer-songwriter’s next step is to release music under her own name — and today she unveiled the funky new gem “Paranoid Times,” which […]
These faces may look familiar. The one on the left looks a lot like Barbara Gruska from the Belle Brigade. Next to her, is that Inara George from the Bird And The Bee? And on the far right, holding the weird dog, that chick bares a striking resemblance to Alex Lilly from Touché and Obi […]
If you thought it got dark on Chelsea Wolfe’s 2013 album “Pain Is Beauty,” wait until you listen while she peeks into the “Abyss.” That’s the title of the goth-metal sorceress’s new album, due Aug. 7 via Sargent House, and it’s a riveting, if unsettling, collection of soundscapes that see-saw from fragile beauty to brawny […]
