The best thing about the debut album from L.A. quartet Talk in Tongues is how it doesn’t drown in its own sound. In connecting the dots between ’60s and ’70s psychedelia and the Creation Records bands and their U.K. offspring, “Alone With a Friend” keeps its above water, just the right amount of fuzz, jangle, […]
Tanlines are a whole lot better at making ’80s mope-pop than they are at shooting hoops, as their new video for “Pieces” indicates. Here, Eric Emm and Jesse Cohen bring their weak sauce to a 2-on-2 basketball tournament in Venice Beach and get schooled even worse than they would in a 50-and-over bloggers’ league. And […]
Kylie, Kardashian and all the rest of the fakes out there: You’ve been called out by Sophie and the Bom Boms. The duo of singer-songwriter Sophie Stern and Grammy-winning producer/engineer David Greenbaum have unveiled the new single “All Mine (Real Bitches),” a rave-up in which Stern gets a few things off her (presumably all-natural) chest, […]
Singer-songwriter Caitlin Notey possesses a big, evocative voice and broad tastes in classic soul and Americana to go along with it. The L.A. native, reared in Topanga Canyon and schooled at USC where she assembled her band Huxlee, puts her vocals and influences to good use on “22,” the new single from the sextet’s forthcoming […]
The good news is that long-running indie stalwart Matt Pond PA has a new album due June 30. It’s titled “The State of Gold,” coming via the recently resuscitated Doghouse Records, and ranks with the three-album run in the mid-Aughts that remain near and dear to the hearts of Pond lifers (it says here) — […]
Singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle released his debut “The Golden Age & the Silver Girl” in 2011, right before he packed his bags and moved from Georgia to Los Angeles. Neither his nimble melodic sense nor his sophisticated lyricism deserted him in the ensuing time, as he swam around in L.A.’s murky waters working on his own […]
Like their 2012 debut, Dead Sara’s sophomore album “Pleasure to Meet You” takes no prisoners, vigorously and almost defiantly rooting around in hard rock’s musty corners for new knives to sharpen and teeth to bare. It was not an easy path for the L.A. quartet from their first album to their new one, so if […]
If you saw Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan — the Milk Carton Kids — in the early days at the Hotel Café, you could hardly have predicted they’d be a national sensation, playing big concert halls, earning a Grammy nomination, being tabbed as group of the year at the Americana Music Awards. Their mien was […]
In April, the Mynabirds previewed some new songs at the Echo, stoking anticipation for their first album since 2012. Today, singer-keyboardist Laura Burhenn and gang unveiled the recording of one of them, “Semantics,” of which she says: “Does it matter what we call things, what we call ‘Us’? And yeah, it does. It can change […]
Corsica Arts Club’s bright garage-pop emerged last summer with the Golden State paean “California I Follow,” and since then the duo of L.A. natives Brendan Thompson and Arash Parsee have enlisted the services of Nate Chovanec, Jason Mittleman and Peter McArthur to round out the band’s lineup as they continued to work on more music. […]
