Dustin Lovelis finally has a release date for his album “Dimensions,” which first came on the radar last summer when he unveiled the song “Off the Rails.” The former frontman of the Fling will issue the album May 19 via Porch Party Records. The album — recorded with producer/bassist Elijah Thomson at Elliott Smith’s old digs, […]
Sarajevo-born Valida is best known as a DJ on local favorite KCRW, and has spun records across the globe throughout her career, but has also been a musician and performer since she was 4. In addition to remixing Foster The People and Milo Greene, among others, she has also released some original material, beginning first […]
Less than a year after her song “OctaHate” hit Soundcloud and started blazing into earbuds everywhere (6 millions spins and counting), Ryn Weaver’s debut album “The Fool” will be released. The 22-year-old southern Californian, who worked in the studio with producers Benny Blanco and Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos, will unveil the album on June 16, […]
Seeing as the new trend in rap is to release your album with little to no notice, Odd Future ringleader Tyler, the Creator has announced his newest album via his recently launched Golf Media app. It’s titled “Cherry Bomb,” and there’s word that Lil Wayne and Kanye West will appear on one of the album’s […]
On “Golem,” their second album in seven months, Los Angeles four-piece Wand dive boldly into the 1960s and ’70s, but these aren’t any lightweight musical hallucinogens these guys are doling out. The band — Cory Hanson (guitar, vocals and synths), Lee Landey (bass and synths), Evan Burrows (drums) and Daniel Martens (guitar) — prove as […]
L.A. septet Behon began with the solo folk songs of singer-guitarist Brendan Han, then grew faster than college dorm room after somebody texted there’s a free kegger. Han first enlisted childhood friend (and trombonist) Jeff Leblow, who in turn recruited several friends from the Occidental College music community, including drummer Mike Ursu, saxophonist Alyssa Cottle, […]
Kid Bloom are a five-month-old L.A. quintet engaging in lovingly warped, sneaky-smart psych-pop. They’ve recorded an EP’s worth of tunes at an Atwater Village studio that feel like the ’60s and ’70s in a fun house — theirs is an arty approach to composition, deconstructing and reassembling pop elements seemingly on a whim, judiciously subtracting […]
Viva Violet is the pedigreed duo of Jiha Lee and Nick White, longtime friends who have called Chicago, Omaha and Athens, Ga., home, and started their new project last year in L.A. Lee, the former keyboardist in the Good Life (and like White, who has toured with Adam Green, Binki Shapiro and Tilly and the […]
Other Lives’ “Rituals,” the follow-up to 2011’s “Tamer Animals” (Buzz Bands LA’s album of the year), comes out May 4. The core trio of Jesse Tabish, Josh Onstott and Jonathon Mooney moved to Portland from their native Oklahoma to make it, and in London-based dirctor Ollie Wolf, they found a visual collaborator for the hauntingly […]
The 2013 debut from Froth put the L.A. quartet on the map as one of the top local bands with whom you’d like to share a Kool-Aid, assuming it wasn’t straight-out-the-package stuff. “Patterns” was a not-quite-lo-fi slab of psychedelia that at its best had a woozy, slacker charm. The new song “Postcard Radio” sizzles with […]
