With their transcendent 2011 album “Tamer Animals,” Oklahoma orchestral indie-rockers Other Lives placed themselves in rarefied air. Jaw-dropping both compositionally and lyrically, it’s not the kind of album that can be dashed off; indeed, the trio of Jesse Tabish (piano, guitar, vocals), Jonathon Mooney (piano, violin, guitar, percussion, trumpet) and Josh Onstott (bass, keys, percussion, […]
London quartet Wolf Alice may have performed at Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds ,as well as won Best Breakthrough Artist at the UK Festival Awards and been deemed by BBC Radio 6 as 2013’s most-blogged-about band, but these folk-grunge-rockers are only just now about to make a bigger splash across the pond. With two EPs under […]
The Puppy Bowl on Sunday was great, but singer-songwriter Cary Brothers’ video for his new song “Lovin’ On You” has serious game. Directed by Lakshmi Sundaram and filmed by Stephen Tringali, it stars a St. Bernard puppy named Leo and follows a familiar storyline: You might lose the girl, but a dog’s love is unconditional. […]
Singer-songwriter Calvin Love, the Edmonton native who did a tenure in L.A. with the indie-rock band Red Cortez, has signed with Canadian label Arts & Crafts and this week released the new single “Daydream.” It’s nimble slice of psychedelic pop & soul and Love’s first new music since the 2013 single “Cool.” Love’s debut “New […]
The infectious ’60s-disco vibe of the single “Rom Say Sok” is but a small part of the appeal of “The Deepest Lake,” the fifth album from Cambodian-American psych-rockers Dengue Fever. The sextet — singer and new U.S. citizen Chhom Nimol, along with bassist Senon Williams, singer-guitarist Zac Holtzman, keyboardist Ethan Holtzman, horn man David Ralicke and […]
The debut album from Ex Hex, last fall’s “Rips” was either a fantastic surprise or no surprise at all, depending on your familiarity with singer-guitarist Mary Timony, who has released music in no fewer than a half-dozen different guises over the past two decades. Notably, there was the beloved Matador Records band Helium, and, more […]
Odd Future member Hodgy Beats is also a part of respective duos MellowHigh with Domo Genesis, and MellowHype with Left Brain, but he just released the 12-track mixtape “Dena Tape 2,” a follow-up to 2009’s “Dena Tape” and the first solo work he’s put out since an untitled EP in 2013. Hosted by Philadelphia rapper […]
A year ago, Bryan Sammis departed his job as drummer for L.A. quintet the Neighbourhood and embarked on making music as Olivver the Kid. His “Freak” EP, released in October, is musical salve for emotional wounds, dark meditations that offer the same soft-to-the-touch feel as some of his old band’s pop. For the song “Attica […]
Like its title, Two Gallants‘ new single “Incidental” is just that. Or so the undiscerning ear may assume. The grungy blues track is a swift 2 1/2 minutes of ragged vocals and melodic guitar that swirls in circles unpredictably with a relieving bridge. While the duo maintains their muscular musicianship, “Incidental” is a rock spasm […]
Slutever is a Los Angeles-based duo with a truly awful band name — Whatever was already taken, so they had to use some, y’know, imagination — and in a scene frothing at the bit to toast anything young and visceral, they have been anointed the next Girlpool. Or maybe Girlpool is the next Slutever. They have […]
