Longtime followers of L.A. garage-rockers the Dead Ships might find some irony in a song titled “Big Quiet” — the trio of singer-guitarist Devlin McCluskey, drummer Christopher Spindelilus and bassist Alex Moore are to quietude what a Triple Whopper is to a healthy diet. But the Dead Ships’ earplugs-recommended scuzz gets a makeover on this new […]
Somewhere in between Tame Impala and Teenage Fanclub, there is a cozy little spot in your music library for Triptides. Despite originally hailing from Bloomington, Ind.., the psych-rock band has integrated sunny thoughts and textures in their music. Founding members Glenn Brigman and Josh Menashe met each other in a history class called “Rock and […]
U.K. quartet Wolf Alice continue to make noise in anticipation of their debut “My Love Is Cool” (out June 22 via Dirty Hit and RCA). With raucous first tastes like “Moaning Lisa Smile” and “Storms” for fans across the pond, the States now have pop-grunge tune “Giant Peach.” At first the dulcet tones of leading […]
This post is brought to you by peace of mind, beauty, subtlety and assorted transportative ambient experiences. Oh, and also by Los Angeles trio Sin Fin. They are Polo Quintero (guitar, loops), bassist Mandy Sewall and percussionist Tom King. They make instrumental music, which is at times trance-inducing and consistently lushly detailed. Oh, and crushingly […]
Cincinnati indie-pop duo Bad Veins are due to release their fourth album, “The Mess Remade†(the follow-up to 2012’s “The Mess We’ve Madeâ€), on March 17 via Dynamite Music. Benjamin Davis and Jake Bonta (sans now-departed drummer Sebastien Schultz) are the main members of Bad Veins, but there is also a third — a 1973 […]
Just in time for the announcement that he will be the keynote speaker at this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival (funny how these things work out), Snoop Dogg unveiled a new single today. “Peaches N Cream,” a peachy, creamy funk/R&B number, is already all over urban radio, but the backstory is that it’s from […]
Orange County trio Wetwood Smokes make indie-rock that carries a certain gravitas, and they came out swinging last year on their deceptively titled debut EP, the self-released “Earth Tones & Red,” which mixed pop hooks and anthemic bombast to good effect. The band — stepbrothers Josh Bowman and Steven Howard, along with their childhood neighbor […]
The new single from Big Harp is like a football two-minute drill — onrushing synths, a hurry-up pace, a little roughing-the-guitar and, finally, a boy/girl chorus that finds the end zone. “It’s a Shame” represents another nifty piece of gamesmanship from the L.A.-based husband-and-wife team of Chris Senseney and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney (along with drummer Daniel […]
If Mary J. Blige were just getting into the music scene, had a cleaner tone and decided to pursue the ever-evolving synth soundscape, we’d have Dead Right. Well, we’d have vocalist Graham Knoxx at least, but certainly not in a nutshell. Knoxx released a solo EP titled “Echo” in 2012, but it wasn’t until she […]
Cherub punk duo Girlpool, the Los Angeles natives who now use Philadelphia as a home base, announced today that their debut album “Before the World Was big” would be out June 2 via Wichita Recordings. The smart, often confrontational music on last year’s debut EP belied its simplicity — no matter what you thought of […]
