Whether they are transporting listeners to a blissful state with twinkling guitars or blowing their hair back with pedal-powered harmonics, L.A. quartet Winter knows pretty. Their album “Supreme Blue Dream,” which went to the top of the Lolipop Records heap when it was released last month, evokes some of the flagship bands of the indie […]
Husband-and-wife duo Western Bells may look familiar to those who have seen this Samsung Galaxy ad, but Angelenos music fans may have a fond memory for their previous band Robotanists (they made the headlines with this feat). Vocalist Sarah Ellquist DeBlanke and Daniel DeBlanke have also worked on several solo projects among the many bands […]
L.A. quartet the Briggs have been largely off the radar since the latter part of last decade, when you couldn’t go to a sporting event without hearing their pugilistic civic-pride anthem “This Is LA” (part of the Kings’ and the Galaxy’s soundtrack). Their 2008 album “Come All You Madmen,” their fourth, seemed to signal they […]
New York’s Tim Martell is a New York-based house and electronic music DJ with a long resumé that includes gigs at some of the world’s premier venues, support and festival slots alongside a bevy of A-listers and a healthy list of corporate clients who’ve sipped from his mixology. He also has a thing for Coachella. […]
Last month, when Tame Impala released the first song from its forthcoming album “Currents,” fans of the Australian band’s 2012 breakout “Lonerism” knew they might be in for a seismic shift. Ambient and proggy, the songs shape-shifts on bent synths for almost eight minutes, absent the chiming, harmonized guitars that made the Aussies torchbearers in […]
L.A.-based Jake O’Neal is a transplanted Coloradan who now makes music under the name Drip Lines, having left behind his indie-rock outfit Summa (so named because he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado) in the Rocky Mountain state. Academics aside, you don’t need to sport a 4.0 to feel the emotion in […]
“Make Our Own Way,” the indie-pop nugget that kicks off Little Brutes’ “Desire” EP, is a bright little affirmation that if we stay true to ourselves and embrace the small pleasures, “we’ll have it like we want it,” as singer Rachael Cantu suggests. The song was featured on NBC’s new “One Big Happy,” which stars […]
Connecticut-bred trio Mercies moved to L.A. a year and a half ago — “the great unknown,” they suggest in the song “White Fir” — to build on the creative sparks founding members Josh Rheault and Sammy Dent discovered in making their debut album, 2011’s “Three Thousand Days,” in a old tobacco barn. Joined by Jordan Flower, […]
Ever since Olin & the Moon planted themselves in Los Angeles after taking root in Idaho, the quintet has made some of the most earnest, finely crafted Americana in these (and many other) parts. They’ve become scene staples, and often-overlooked ones at that, but their new album “Every One You Know,” which they are self-releasing […]
Almost exactly a year since the release of their EP “How Do You Feel Now,” Rochester, N.Y.’s Joywave are due to release their full-length album with the same title April 21 via Cultco Music. This indie quintet have shown versatility by blending infectious electronica with melodic pop-rock, and the end product is a dance-floor-worthy mix […]
