We love a good pun as much as anybody, but Bones Muhroni might have stretched things a little bit in titling their new single “Diddy Party.” It’s a fun, old-school romp from the Colorado-bred, L.A.-based retro rockers, who’ve been spreading their swing, swagger and sense of humor around SoCal since they migrated here a couple […]
If you were present — and in the spirit — for any of the first three weeks of Freedom Fry’s May residency at the Echo, you’re on the indie-poppers new single “21.” The band is built around the husband-wife collaboration of Bruce Driscoll and Marie Seyrat, and as Driscoll explained at the shows, “It gets pretty […]
Since their 2013 breakout “This Is … Icona Pop,” the Swedish duo of Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo has released but one single, 2014’s “Get Lost” (although they were present and accounted for on songs by Cobra Starship and Tiesto). That dry spell ended this week, when Icona Pop released “Emergency,” a new single that […]
“We’re the girls at the party crying while smashing up the dance floor,” MUNA says by way of introduction. Indeed, the L.A. trio of Josette Maskin, Naomi McPherson and Katie Gavin infuse their synth-pop with a brooding self-awareness, fully on display on the new single “So Special.” It’s the follow-up to their 2014 EP “More […]
The hard-to-type but easy-on-the-ears L.A. duo yOya continue walk the tightrope between the worlds of acoustic folk and electro-pop. It’s an act they pull off with uncommon grace, owing to the strong vocal harmonies and songwriting from principals behind Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich. The native Oregonians are following up last year’s “Fool’s Gold” single […]
The press blast identifies producer Ryder Bach as “an ex-musical theater actor and ex-Scientologist,” but Bach is better known in some parts as one of two ex-principals in the dearly departed L.A. art-pop outfit Body Parts, whose 2013 album “Fire Dream” made our world a better place. Bach’s forthcoming solo EP is titled “People Are […]
Befitting its title, the new single from L.A. dream-pop trio Florals exists in the penumbra, that space between the band’s gloomy atmospherics and singer Stephanie Marie Rick’s bright, feathery vocals. “Grey” is the second single to be previewed from the trio’s debut full-length, “Kin of Mine,” made with engineer Kris Essig and coming out this […]
The band in Lieutenant’s new video is not Lieutenant, and that’s the point. Director Daniel Contrero’s “Believe the Squalor” is played out in a chapel amid fire and blood by a metal band — just about the polar opposite of singer-guitarist Nate Mendel and the guys he recruited to stage his solo project Lieutenant. Mendel, […]
“Quiet Time” is the first new music from L.A. trio Roses since August’s “Dreamlover” EP, and it places them squarely in the court of kings of sad wave such as the Cure and Moz. Though Roses aren’t the kind to wear shiny or black things, the trio of singer-keyboardist Marc Steinberg, bassist Victor Herrera and […]
If you know L.A.’s Jarell Perry from swooning electro-R&B stylings, a new collaborative EP with Toronto producer Will Diebel — aka Deebs — casts the singer in a different light. “Shift,” released this week via Time No Place/Kompakt Records, Perry’s precise, emotive vocals wriggling through Deebs’ minimal, left-field production. It’s an experiment in beat-driven, atmospheric […]
