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Premiere: Sun Drug, ‘Easy in Your Attitude’

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Starting over can test the mettle of any creative, but working from a clean slate with a fresh perspective often yields remarkable results. And so it is with Sun Drug, the L.A. quartet of Steven Wilkin, Collin Desha, Taylor Brown and Cameron Dmytryk. They were four-fifths of Vanaprasta, whose heady 2011 album “Healthy Geometry” and […]

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Ears Wide Open: ISLES

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ISLES are a new L.A. outfit using a not-so-new formula for commercial exposure: gleaming pop combined with workaday hip-hop. The band features the vocal talents of singer Olivia May and rapper Casey Bisetti, along with Daniel Braunstein (guitar), Adam Elzarou (bass), Matt Barreca (drums) and AJK (samples). Their first single “Home Again” is a ready-for-radio […]

Make Music Pasadena 2015: Buzz Bands LA’s 40-song festival mixtape — and your updated (plain-text) set times for Saturday

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We’re girding our loins for Saturday’s Make Music Pasadena. [We even read up on how to gird your loins.] More than 150 bands, thirty-some venues, free, walkable … What’s not to like? In preparation for Saturday’s festivities — which feature the likes of How to Dress Well, Nick Waterhouse, Sir Sly, Kishi Bashi, Hundred Waters, […]

Video: Well Hung Heart, ‘Throw It All Away’

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Orange County-based Well Hung Heart continue to prove that they love rock ’n’ roll at least as much as Joan Jett. The band — singer-keyboardist Greta Valenti and U.K ex-pat Robin Davey on guitar and bass, abetted by drummer Kevin Conroy — has unleashed two furious full-lengths of old-school hard stuff, 2013’s “Young Enough to […]

Video: DTCV, ‘Radio Drive’

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Since they first embarked on making music as Detective more than three years ago, the French-American duo of Guylaine Vivarat and James Greer — now going by the vowel-starved DTCV — have been as uncompromising as they have been prolific. Garage-pop, post-punk, shoegaze, noise-rock, prog-punk, new wave: The Joshua Tree-based duo can do it all, and have, […]

Stream: Spelles, ‘Rib Cage’

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On her first two singles as Spelles, Kathryn Barr proved she could be both fast-moving (the percussive “Bird in a Cage”) and deeply brooding (the melancholy “Out of the Canyon”). The L.A.-based Canadian goes deeper on her new single “Rib Cage,” questioning her very worth with those smoky vocals made for late-night introspection. “I try […]

Stream: Among Savages, ‘If You See Her’

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L.A.-based singer-songwriter-composer Peter Barbee cut his teeth in Nashville, releasing an EP and a full-length (2012’s overlooked “Wanderings of an Illustrative Mind”) as Among Savages. Since then, he has co-written with Natalie Prass (including “My Baby Don’t Understand Me” on her 2015 debut) and sung on the Stephan Altman/Mark Foster-penned song “When You Find Love” […]

Video: Livingmore, ‘Little Bird’

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Melodic riff-loving duo Livingmore released a new single this week called “Little Bird.” It’s a summery song about “just watching your path unfold, however it may, and gaining something positive from the things that happen that are good and the things that are bad,” says Spencer Livingston. For the video, directed by Omeed Boghraty, Livingston […]

Tamaryn to headline the Skirball Cultural Center’s ‘Into the Night’ on July 17

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Tamaryn, the dream-pop outfit fronted by New Zealand-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Tamaryn Brown, will headline the sixth installment of the Skirball Cultural Center’s popular “Into the Night” series on Friday, July 17. The show is celebration of the Skirball’s recently opened exhibition “Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution,” a retrospective of photographs, art, […]

Stream: Heathers, ‘Tanker’

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Heathers’ guitar-propelled indie-pop recalls the jangling, mostly British bands of the 1980s whose chiming chords put a happy face on their outsider mopery. The L.A. trio of singer-guitarist Michael Francis, bassist Thom Lucero and drummer Michael Wegener make it sound cool to be bummed on their new single “Tanker” too. After releasing a trickle of […]

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