Like Moxi’s previous singles, “Through The Dark” – the title track of the L.A. duo’s new EP – offers an intoxicating mix of wobbling synths and danceable beats, with Anna Nelson holding her own as the kind of lovestruck singer the New Wave loved in the ’80s and which proliferate now. It’s the stuff of […]
It didn’t take Meiko much time to retool after the October release of her third full-length “Dear You.” The L.A.-based singer-songwriter is back with a new EP with a title that reveals her favorite two themes, “Lovers & Fighters.” It arrives just in time for Feb. 14, of course, complete with pink hearts on the […]
The simple black-and-white video treatment for the Twilight Sad’s “I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want” seems perfect for the Scottish trio’s all-wrapped-up-in-brogue mopery. The song is from the Scottish post-punk trio’s latest album, “Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave,” released last fall. While their fourth album (or their […]
Ben Schneider describes “Strange Trails,” his new album as Lord Huron, as an anthology of weird fiction with “no direct narrative connection” between this sophomore effort and 2012’s widely lauded “Lonesome Dreams.” “The stories here are separated by time, location and characters,” the L.A.-based Michigan native explains, although “many of the themes have carried over […]
Long Beach rapper Boogie hasn’t been rapping long, but he sounds like he has, with a cadence and ease in his flow that suggest seasoning. In 2014, the 25-year-old guested on SBTRKT’s “Wonder Where We Land” B-side “Spaced Out,” and dropped the “Thirst 48” mixtape last summer, an 11-track offering full of smart and witty […]
There’s visceral and then there’s Wake Up Lucid. The L.A.-based trio of cousins — Ryan, Ian and Jamie Baca — have been making not-so-nice for about five years now, with two EPs and the 2012 full-length “Feel It” outlining their agenda to make heavy blues so dangerous it should be on a do-not-fly list. Live, […]
Fresh off of two Grammy wins on Sunday — best rap song and best rap performance for his positive and uplifting single, “i” — Kendrick Lamar flipped the script this week and dropped a new track “The Blacker The Berry.” Over a boom bap beat from Boi-1da and a hook from Jamaican artist Assassin, Lamar […]
Argentina’s Bonson Berner relocated from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles a couple of years ago and introduced themselves to U.S. audiences with the album “Passport,” an album of brooding, propulsive electro-rockers. Helmed by musician, photographer, painter and architect Lisandro “Pato†Aloi, a veteran of Argentine rockers Siga la Flecha, the band is finishing off its […]
Alabama Shakes, the garage-soul terrors who rocketed out of Athens, Ala., five years ago and released their acclaimed “Boy & Girls” in 2012, today announced that their sophomore album “Sound & Color” would be out April 21 on ATO Records. The new release is advertised as a mix of soul, psychedelia and garage-rock, and the […]
The backgrounder for “Dance in Your Blood,” the latest single from Omniflux, notes that songwriter Mahsa Zargaran derived inspiration from “long walks listening to Dead Can Dance and Massive Attack.” Sound like a line from a profile on a dating site, right? Awright, we’ll send a wink. “Dance in Your Blood” does indeed conjure up […]
