Video: Sad Robot, ‘Fear Me’
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“Can you take / my breath away?” Kat Pawlak asks in the opening line of the new Sad Robot album, “Après Moi, le Déluge.” Ten songs and a deluge of production later, the answer is obvious: No.
Video premiere: Kid Cadaver, ‘New Friends’
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Kid Cadaver create the kind music that makes new friends almost immediately — infectious indie-pop with sticky choruses and a bright, wide-eyed outlook.
This Week’s Shows: July 20-26
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Incoming: Imagine Dragons, Beach Party, Sonny Boy Thorn, Soul Asylum, Big Talk, Basecamp, Andra Day, Sleep State, Barenaked Ladies, more
Video: Cold War Kids, ‘One Song at a Time’
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It’s hard to ignore Cold War Kids this past year, what with solo or side projects springing up like bunnies [see next post], the quintet touring like dervishes and our encountering their latest single on the radio in sometimes unexpected places.
Video: Tamaryn, ‘Cranekiss’
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In April, New Zealand-born, New York-based singer Tamaryn announced that her new album “Cranekiss” would be out Aug. 28.
Video: VOWWS, ‘The Great Sun’
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Self-proclaimed “industrial pop demons” VOWWS sink their claws into Los Angeles twice this week. Although the duo met in Sydney studying music composition, they now call our sunny city and local label Cleopatra Records home, ensuring that a heavy pulse of black continuously undulates beneath the colorful, seedy belly of Hollywood lights. Darkness and desolation […]
Video: Kimbra, ‘Goldmine’
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New Zealand pop princess Kimbra struck gold in 2012 when she teamed with Gotye on the mega-hit single “Somebody That I Used to Know.” Her own song “Goldmine” uses the precious metal symbolically, and so too does the striking video, “representing the message of ‘inner wealth’ and calling on a strength from within,” the 25-year-old […]
Video: Julia Holter, ‘Feel You’
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It feels as if Julia Holter is lifting the veil on her new single “Feel You.” The L.A.-based singer-songwriter-composer has birthed three albums of painterly, highly conceptual art-pop since 2011 — one based on Greek playwright Eruipes’ “Hippolytus,” another based on the French writer Gig’s 1944 novella “Colette.” On those, along with the beautifully cinematic “Ekstasis” […]
Tonight in L.A.: Steely Dan/Elvis Costello, Ryn Weaver, XXL Freshmen Tour, Hunter Hunted, Built to Spill, Phantoms, Beach Party, Sonny Boy Thorn, Sleep State
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Much ado about Monday: ► Steely Dan and Elvis Costello team up for a night at the Hollywood Bowl. ► The XXL Freshmen Tour brings up-and-coming rappers Fetty Wap, Vince Staples, DEJ Loaf, Goldlink, Raury, Tink, Shy Glizzy, OG Maco, K Camp and Kidd Kidd to Club Nokia. ► Ryn Weaver headlines the El Rey […]
The Week Ahead: July 13-19
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Incoming: Viva! Pomona, Steely Dan, Elvis Costello, Ryn Weaver, XXL Freshmen, Built to Spill, Hunter Hunted, Young Rising Sons, Phantoms, Beach Party, Sonny Boy Thorn, Sleep State, Shellac, Jonny Rock, Fetty Wap, Van Halen, Two Sheds, Tanlines, John Fogerty, Keb’ Mo’, Little Boots, the Helio Sequence, Cayucas, L7, Real Estate, Sam Sparro, Roosevelt, Light Asylum, […]
