Following the 2012 EP “In Love With The Enemy,” Los Angeles artist Kita Klane released her sophomore EP, the four-track “Fingerprints,” last week, a moody and sultry batch of indie-soul. The black-and-white video of the title track was directed by Nic Harcourt (the former KCRW music director and current KCSN morning host), stars Mike O’Malley […]
What’s not to love about this collaboration? As M83, Anthony Gonzalez composes gorgeously cinematic music, and in the new track “Holes in the Sky” the picture is completed with vocals from Grammy-nominated L.A. outfit Haim . The song appears on the soundtrack to the action-adventure film “The Divergent Series: Insurgent,” which comes out next week […]
Denver-duo-turned-quartet Rose Quartz have released their new single “Leaving Now.” Having shared stages with the likes of Cut Copy, St. Lucia, and Future Islands, Rose Quartz are beginning to twirl their finger in the murky pool of synth-pop. The band is named after the “stone of love†— a theme that they touch on heavily […]
DIY roots-rocker Matt Ellis has found a comfortable station in Los Angeles, his home for a decade since departing his native Australia. He calls his fifth full-length “The Great Escape” his “most L.A. album yet,” adding that much of the lyrical content came to him while simply driving around the city. Hence, director Phil Harder’s […]
“Running,” the new single from the Lonely Wild, starts in a walk, with Jessi Williams’ mournful violin, then breaks into a trot and finally charges, seemingly into battle, with the cry “Don’t stop running!” It’s a typically sanguine outlook from the quintet of Andrew Carroll, Dave Farina, Ryan Ross, Andrew Schneider and Williams, whose brazen […]
Tall Tales and the Silver Lining’s new album “Tightropes” is cut from the same 1970s California vibe as some other artists burning the Laurel Canyon flame (say, Dawes), except that the stitching is a little looser. It’s a good fit either way; singer-songwriter Trevor Beld Jimenez, who migrated to L.A. from Ventura some years ago, […]
After gaining steam with a couple releases on the French label Kitsuné, London’s Years & Years, recent winners of the “BBC Sound of 2015†award, have just released their new single “King†via Polydor Records. The trio is days away from wrapping up recording their debut full-length album (due in June), which is sure to […]
Meg Myers is “Sorry.” No, she really is. I mean, it hasn’t sounded like it those times she’s bared her teeth on her first two EPs, last year’s “Make A Shadow” and 2012’s “Daughter in the Choir.” But the onetime Jehovah’s Witness from Tennessee, can play contrite as well as unrepentant, both with vein-popping vigor. […]
Before we get to the trippy video, here’s the bulletin: L.A. quintet Fool’s Gold will release their third album, “Flying Lessons,” in April (as a special Record Day Day vinyl release) and May (in other formats) via ORG Music. It’s the long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s “Leave No Trace” and, says frontman Luke Top, “is the […]
With all the lap steel guitar, you would think Roah Summit were grew up in Laurel Canyon instead of Costa Mesa. Jake Berry (vocals), Max Epstein (bass), Tyler Spry (lap steel), Jay Obedunmi (drums), Kevin Clarke (synths) and Drew Chaffee (guitar) make for quite the large ensemble, but their abundance of talent yields a gorgeous […]
