Before we get to the trippy video, here’s the bulletin: L.A. quintet Fool’s Gold will release their third album, “Flying Lessons,” in April (as a special Record Day Day vinyl release) and May (in other formats) via ORG Music. It’s the long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s “Leave No Trace” and, says frontman Luke Top, “is the […]
Great lineup of shows for your Thursday: â–º Swervedriver headlines the Roxy Theatre behind “I Wasn’t Born to Lose You,” their first album in 17 years. Opening for the U.K rockers on their American tour are young L.A. band Gateway Drugs, who just released their debut album “Magick Spells.” â–º New Orleans’ Galactic bring their […]
Since he released Harriet’s debut EP “Tell the Right Story” in early 2012, singer-songwriter Alex Casnoff has been prone to arresting mood swings. “I Slept With All Your Mothers,” the former Dawes and PAPA keyboardist taunted on that first solo venture, before a long period of soul-searching yielded the melancholic “Ten Steps” and the downright […]
Forget the trends, the hype, and the breezy pop tunes for a second. If all boy-girl duos were put to the ultimate survival-of-the-fittest test, Los Angeles-based THRIFT would swallow all synth-pop duos whole and spit them back out in the time one hits the power button on a Korg. Members Anna Carmela and Mark Malagise call […]
Northern American’s “Elysian” feels crafted from precious materials, its rolling melody and shimmering guitar suggesting a band that’s placed itself above the fray, or at least one that’s found comfort in a bustling city’s natural hideaways. And so it is with the video for the song, made by Sean Zaccheo and Hazel Mailloux, which splices […]
Your Wednesday show options: â–º The Mayer Hawthorne-Jake One collaboration Tuxedo headlines the Regent Theater, celebrating the release of their debut album on Stones Throw Records, with Peanut Butter Wolf and Dam-Funk supporting. â–º With her new album “The Firewatcher’s Daughter” out this week, Brandi Carlile plays the Troubadour. Above, her video for “The Eye.” […]
Long-running Oregon duo the Helio Sequence have been reliable purveyors of cerebral indie-rock for some 15 years now, their sound ranging from ambient, electronic-infused jams to swirling psychedelia to pop quietude. After 2008’s nadir “Keep Your Eyes Ahead,” the duo of Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel returned in 2012 with “Negotiations,” an album so meticulous […]
Low Cut Connie are bringing old school boogie and rockabilly back to rock ’n’ roll. Taking cues from Jerry Lee Lewis, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Chuck Berry and the like, they are piano-thumping their way across the country. It all started when songwriters Adam Weiner, a pianist from Jersey slaving away in a drag karaoke bar […]
If you’re a Snoop Dogg or a 231 fan, you might smile listening to this one. Tuxedo, the duo of soul-singer Mayer Hawthorne and hip hop producer Jake One, released “Number One” to follow up their debut single “Do It.” The two release their self-titled debut on Stone Throw Records today and there isn’t a […]
First Monday in March: â–º Conway kicks off her residency at the Satellite, where she and her band are joined by the Spanish band L.A., the new supergroup/side project MILLK (members of Nico Vega, Queen Caveat and As Tall As Lions) and Black Gatsby. â–º Spindrift performs music from their film “Ghost of the West” […]
