Dublin’s September Girls aren’t letting 2014 go without one last hurrah. After delivering their debut album “Cursing the Sea” earlier this year and making the highlights of CMJ, the Irish girl quintet release the “Veneer” EPÂ today on Brooklyn’s Kanine Records. The four new songs stray away from the harmonic Vivian Girls-style jangles of the album […]
London-born and -raised Claire Courchene has been Los Angeles-based for over five years, after receiving dual performance degrees from the University of Miami in both jazz trombone and cello. In that time, the multi-hyphenate, multi-instrumentalist producer and songwriter has performed and worked with a multitude of artists including Frank Ocean, Lana Del Ray, Quadron, Rhye and […]
It’s no secret that San Francisco is, quite rapidly, experiencing a shift in culture that is abandoning it’s artistic charm, simplicity and strange for materialism and deep pockets. What better inspiration could Bay Area natives Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel aka Two Gallants have to work with for their upcoming release, “We Are Undone?” The […]
Yumi Zouma is another one of those bands that came together without actually coming together until it was time to perform and tour with acts like Lorde. Charlie Ryder and Josh Burgess (who now work in NY) met up with fellow Kiwi Kim Pflaum (and some ideas for songs) via Dropbox for the most part. […]
If we didn’t name drop William Cashion (Future Islands) and Bruce Willen (Double Dagger) you would likely pass over Peals as just another band you’ve never heard of. Like their revered bands, Peals is emotive and textured, harping on intimacy and the gentleness of electric guitar picks. The Baltimore-based duo tethered to Thrill Jockey (where […]
Los Angeles has a long lineage of female-fronted bands who dispense three-minute Sweet Tarts, and the tuneful takedowns you hear from power-pop trio Susan have the same get-up-and-Go-Go. The band – guitarist Jessica Owen, bassist Beth Borwell and drummer Kate Fern – recently released its “Just Call It” EP as a limited-edition 7-inch via San […]
The “mystic pop” of L.A. quartet Figs Vision filters old soul and aching balladry through modern technology, creating synth-scapes that bend notes and percolate emotion. The new video for the song “Backwards” takes a similarly avant-garde tack, as a rotation of eight or so dancers give their bodies to the groove, often in unusual ways. […]
What? You’ve never danced alone in front of the jukebox before? I’m not sure we have anything to talk about. For those who have, here’s a new Arrica Rose song to inspire some solitary moves, although we’re not quite sure they’ll have the same intimacy in front of a YouTube video. “The Shallow End” comes […]
If you didn’t know any better, you’d swear “Sure Thing” was the work of some two-years-away-from-a-razor kids vying for a spot on Burger Records. And if you imagine today’s garage-rock scene as a groovy time warp, it is. Except it’s the Dream Syndicate, circa 1982, just as the Los Angeles quartet was launching a four-album […]
Although 20-year-old Londoner Ella Eyre isn’t a household name yet in the U.S., her massive online following might lead to you think it’s only a matter of time. With Adele is taking some well-deserved time off, there might be an opening for a new, powerful female voice in the modern soul-pop world, and on fierce […]
