Don’t be deceived by the very DIY video for “Pointless,” Light FM are total pros. The long-running indie-rock band helmed by singer/multi-instrumentalist/studio ace Josiah Mazzaschi this week added a new EP to a catalog that includes five full-lengths (the last, “Voices Inside My Head,” in 2013) and one EP. Currently working with a lineup that […]
Ryan Lawhon debuted his post-Pacific Air project Mating Ritual late last year with a handful of sugar-coated but brooding synth-pop songs that exhibited his deft touch for melody and production. The new song “Hum Hum” is more beefcake than cheesecake, though; it’s a good ol’ new wave rocker, stardate 1986 or so. You wanna get […]
If you’re going to do a song about war and oppression, you might as well sound metal. Muse released a new song today titled “Psycho,” and it makes the days of “New Born” sound like easy listening. It’s from the U.K. rockers’ seventh album, “Drones,” due June 8. Says frontman Matt Bellamy: “To me, ‘Drones’ […]
You need a spreadsheet to keep up with everything songwriter Nima Kazerouni is doing these days (so pardon our being a month late on this particular song). His So Many Wizards are working on a new album. His electronic pop project Crown Plaza has a show tonight at Harvard & Stone and new music in […]
Beware Of Darkness is now a one-man show, singer-guitarist Kyle Nicolaides having parted ways with Daniel Curcio and Tony Cupito, and on the follow-up to 2013’s full-length “Orthodox,” the “Sanctuary Season” mixtape, the Santa Barbara-bred, L.A.-based guitar-slinger shelves his heavy blues in favor of some heavy soul-searching. He calls the release an “in between,” since […]
vōx (stylized “vōx” and pronounced “wokes”) is the moniker of Minnesota native and Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Winters, and was inspired by the Latin words she had tattooed on her fingers years prior, vōx et praetere nihil, meaning “a voice and nothing more.” But what a voice it is. In 2010, she released her debut […]
Less than a month after they waxed about “Modern Love,” L.A. indie-poppers Max and the Moon have returned with a new single teasing their forthcoming third EP. “Harps” seems like another Hype Machine-bound confection, this one with the chillwave-y feel of bands like locals Tapioca and the Flea and a Starburst chorus reminiscent of MGMT. […]
Earlier this year, the Ugandan-bred and Los Angeles-based artist Angela Muhwezi released her first single, “New Age,” a two-minute gospel song about race relations, with the blistering opening, “Black is black, white is white / And you better not cross the color lines / If you dare they will bite / ’cause the honey’s real […]
Makes sense that a guy who goes toe-to-toe with zombies and killers every week would like his gnarly guitar rock. Norman Reedus — who plays Daryl Dixon on “The Walking Dead” (and last year got to channel his inner Dinosaur Jr. fanboy) directs the new video for “Blinded” by young L.A. sibling duo the Bots. […]
Pearl and the Beard’s amped-up “chamber-pop” comes from the New York City indie scene, the band boasting three singers and unique instrumentation. The trio — Jocelyn Mackenzie (vocals/percussion), Emily Hope Price (vocals/cello/keys) and Jeremy Styles (vocals/guitars) — formed on the open mic circuit in Brooklyn. They are accomplished vocalists and musicians on their own; Price even boasts […]
