Surprise, surprise. Beck this morning released a new single. It’s titled “Dreams,” and it’s an electro-pop jam that sounds a lot like of other electro-pop jams that have infiltrated the mainstream the past few years (MGMT, maybe?). But it’s Beck, who somehow still looks like a pop kid even though he turns 45 in 2 […]
Happy Friday, as I am liable to say at 11 a.m. when the Buzz Bands LA Show kicks off on The Independent FM. And it really is. I have two hours of mostly new music to share, including songs from Wages, Heathers, Honeyhoney, Sun Drug, Scott Bartenhagen, Sara Lov, Spectacular Spectacular, Spelles and Fake Furs. […]
Tickets go on sale at noon today for this year’s Festival Supreme, the Tenacious D-hosted rock and comedy gala that features the likes of Die Antwoord, the Kids in the Hall, the Darkness, Andrew W.K., Dan Deacon, Rocket From the Crypt, Big Freedia and more. The festival is scheduled for Oct. 10 at the Shrine […]
Plenty from which to choose on this Thursday: ► Massachusetts rockers Speedy Ortiz hit the Echo behind their new album “Foil Deer,” with Alex G and Slutever opening. Above, their video for “Raising the Skate.” ► Wild Nothing and Roses team up for a free, she company-sponsored show at the Echoplex. ► Spanish hip-hop star […]
There were so many storylines on Monday night at the Echo for the second week of the dual residency shared by Freedom Fry and The Moth & the Flame. Foremost, there was the winning set from the husband-and-wife indie-pop duo Freedom Fry — Bruce Driscoll and Marie Seyrat — expanded to a full band to ratchet […]
Singer Allison Louie has collaborated with Robin Hannibal of Quadron and contributed vocals on Nick Waterhouse’s 2012 album “Time’s All Gone.” Her newest single as Louie finds the Orange County native collaborating with Brooklyn’s Pegasus Warning, aka Guillermo Brown, along with Wynne Bennett of Twin Shadow and Wendy Wang (the Sweet Hurt), the latter of […]
Los Angeles chamber-pop quintet Wartime Recitals have premiered a new video for their track “Bad Dances.” Directed by Hunter Peterson and starring Scott Drennan and Jenny Verrochi, the video was filmed along the California coastline and in the Mojave Desert — a perfect backdrop for the band’s summertime harmonies and earnest baroque indie-ness. We […]
Beware Of Darkness is now a one-man show, singer-guitarist Kyle Nicolaides having parted ways with Daniel Curcio and Tony Cupito, and on the follow-up to 2013’s full-length “Orthodox,” the “Sanctuary Season” mixtape, the Santa Barbara-bred, L.A.-based guitar-slinger shelves his heavy blues in favor of some heavy soul-searching. He calls the release an “in between,” since […]
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 […]
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 […]
