Cover songs from No Age [pictured], Sean Bonnette of Andrew Jackson Jihad, Rozwell Kid and Eel Bros (Man Man’s Honus Honus & Hot Karate’s King Cyrus) are part of a specially designed and curated 7-inch box set available through Los Angeles’ Gallery 1988. The eight-song, four-record set is the brainchild of Chicago-based designer Dana Lechtenberg […]
Dirty Dishes are the relatively-new-to-Los Angeles duo of singer-guitarist Jenny Tuite and bassist/synth player Alex Molini. At this very moment, they are probably not missing the climate in their native Boston — nor are they missing the overdriven power chords of the alternative 1990s, judging from their scorcher of an album, “Guilty” (which came out last […]
Gateway Drugs are the rare guitar band thse days whose work you can’t pin to just one or two junctures on the timeline of rock ’n’ roll. We won’t bother with extra-long hyphenates, but in recent months the L.A. psych-rock quartet has stoked anticipation for some sort of release with their roaring live shows. And […]
L.A. duo Monogem today released its debut EP, a self-titled affair that gathers up the four singles they’ve released in the past year and a half along with a new track, “Silhouette.” The collaboration between singer-songwriter and onetime “American Idol” contestant Jen Hirsh and producer-songwriter Scott Smith, Monogem makes slinky, sharp disco-pop that recalls the […]
The latest in an increasingly long line of inheritors of Iggy Pop’s “kill-all-hippies” mantra are No Parents, who like kindred spirits FIDLAR and a host of bands on the Burger Records imprint play punk-rock hard and fast and loud and hilariously and profanely. Their debut album “May the Thirst Be With You” comes out this […]
Nic Capelle and Gabe Rowland — working as Dreaming Bull — debuted their period-piece rock ’n’ soul last year, releasing a full-length that worked equally well for history buffs as it did television music supervisors. Shows such as “Sons of Anarchy,†“Suits†and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation†laid bare the duo’s dirty-funky, gospel-infused songs, and this […]
You didn’t expect Robert Pollard to go quietly into the night after last September’s announcement that Guided By Voices had broken up, did you? Of course not. Today he debuted another song by Ricket Wicky, an outfit he calls a “sophisticated arena rock band.” The album “I Sell the Circus” will be out Feb. 3 […]
If the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse trade their horses for Cold War-era combustion engines, you’ll know that Viet Cong have arrived. The new self-titled album from the Canadian band howls from the hilltops with reverb-drenched bass and vocals, grindingly sharp guitars and industrial rhythms. Joy Division- and Bauhaus-style goth is given a refreshingly new […]
The Suffers are a 10-piece band from Houston, formed in 2011 by bassist Adam Castaneda and keyboardist/vocalist Pat Kelly, and subsequently filled out with local musicians including guitarist Kevin Bernier, trumpet player Jon Durbin, frontwoman Kam Franklin, percussionist Jose “Chapy” Luna, trombonist Michael Razo, jazz saxophonist Cory Wilson, guitarist/vocalist Alex Zamora, and drummer/vocalist Nick Zamora. […]
Rare is the younger band in these times of truncated attention spans who dares release a live album. Dr. Dog is one of those rare bands — the Philadelphia sextet have managed to capture the raw vitality of their rousing concerts on the new live album, “Live at a Flamingo Hotel.†It’s their eighth full-length album […]
