Cayucas, the breezy musical vehicle of twins Zach and Ben Yudin, return June 23 with “Dancing at the Blue Lagoon,” their sophomore album for Secretly Canadian. The brothers made the album, the follow-up to 2013’s “Bigfoot,” at the celebrated Bear Creek studio in Washington State with producer Ryan Hadlock (the Lumineers), yet the new single […]
Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco — aka De Lux, aka Those Nice Lads From Down the Block in Echo Park Who Played Every Show You Attended in 2014 — are stretching their wings. It’s only been a year since the dance-punk revivalists released their debut album “Voyage,” and this week they announced their sophomore effort […]
L.A. native Nicky Blitz, born Nick Scapa, cut his teeth in Miami, where he attended the University of Miami and was a cog in some songwriting machines, penning tunes for films, TV shows, ad agencies and other artists. [See this interesting narrative.] His polyglot tastes (and talents) are on display on the new, self-released “Hawk” […]
The new single from The Moth & the Flame is a roof-rattler the L.A. quartet have been playing in concerts for several months now, “Young & Unafraid.” The band — Utah ex-pats Brandon Robbins (guitars and vocals), Mark Garbett (keyboards and vocals) and Andrew Tolman drums) along with L.A. cohort Michael Goldman on bass — […]
Jutty Ranx continues to garner attention in global pop circles, even if Justin Taylor and his music aren’t household commodities in the U.S., or even his hometown. Of course, the promo for the song “Digital Love” — a collaboration between Finnish pop duo Tom & Hills and the L.A. artist — refers to Jutty Ranx as […]
Dutch Party’s laced-with-cool funk-pop debuted in December with two tracks from the mind and fingers of singer-songwriter Ken Franklin. With Dutch Party now playing around town as a five-piece, the band last week released its debut EP “Astral Nights,” which features those first two songs, “Paper Moon” and “Echo Girl” and four more, including the […]
Vanessa Long calls the often-mystical, always-clever songs she makes as Cillie Barnes “gyp-hop” — sung and sung-spoken meditations that have the quality of diary entries. Her downtempo new single “Symmetry,” part of a small collection “The Friendly Witch” that she is releasing this week, feels like she’s letting you in on a secret. “I wrote ‘Symmetry’ […]
There’s nothing like some projectile vomiting to announce your long-awaited third album. That’s a disclaimer for the video above, “New Coke,” which is the first song to emerge from Echo Park’s experimental noise band HEALTH‘s new album, “Death Magic,” their first album since 2009’s “Get Color.” Since then, they recorded the soundtrack to the video […]
Since they debuted over four years ago, L.A. duo the Young Romans have dispensed their bright, nimble indie-pop on a full-length and a couple of EPs, and seen their work used in a host of TV shows and films, including “Drop Dead Diva,” “Pretty Little Liars,” “the Fosters,” “The Lying Game” and “Salmon Fishing In […]
Ahead of their just-announced date at HARD Summer, the Chemical Brothers — Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons — are returning with their first album in five years. “Born in the Echoes” will be out July 17, and it features guest turns from Q-Tip, Beck, St. Vincent, Cate Le Bon and Ali Love (a video is […]
