London quartet Wolf Alice may have performed at Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds ,as well as won Best Breakthrough Artist at the UK Festival Awards and been deemed by BBC Radio 6 as 2013’s most-blogged-about band, but these folk-grunge-rockers are only just now about to make a bigger splash across the pond. With two EPs under […]
The Puppy Bowl on Sunday was great, but singer-songwriter Cary Brothers’ video for his new song “Lovin’ On You” has serious game. Directed by Lakshmi Sundaram and filmed by Stephen Tringali, it stars a St. Bernard puppy named Leo and follows a familiar storyline: You might lose the girl, but a dog’s love is unconditional. […]
Imagine Dragons will be joined by Metric this afternoon at the Mayan Theatre for a surprise show that will be webcast via Yahoo! Live starting at 2 p.m. We missed the chance to RSVP for entry, but if we’re persistent we can help the quartet’s video for “I Bet My Life,” above, surpass 12 million […]
The infectious ’60s-disco vibe of the single “Rom Say Sok” is but a small part of the appeal of “The Deepest Lake,” the fifth album from Cambodian-American psych-rockers Dengue Fever. The sextet — singer and new U.S. citizen Chhom Nimol, along with bassist Senon Williams, singer-guitarist Zac Holtzman, keyboardist Ethan Holtzman, horn man David Ralicke and […]
The debut album from Ex Hex, last fall’s “Rips” was either a fantastic surprise or no surprise at all, depending on your familiarity with singer-guitarist Mary Timony, who has released music in no fewer than a half-dozen different guises over the past two decades. Notably, there was the beloved Matador Records band Helium, and, more […]
A year ago, Bryan Sammis departed his job as drummer for L.A. quintet the Neighbourhood and embarked on making music as Olivver the Kid. His “Freak” EP, released in October, is musical salve for emotional wounds, dark meditations that offer the same soft-to-the-touch feel as some of his old band’s pop. For the song “Attica […]
Have a wonderful Wednesday: ► Swedish-Gambian singer Seinabo Sey makes her L.A. headlining debut at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, with Gavin James supporting. Sey has won acclaim for her “For Madeleine” EP; above, the Magnus Lidehäll-directed video for “Younger.” ► Funk fans can get a little Lettuce in their diet — the […]
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 […]
Tuesday’s things: â–º Bass Drum of Death rock the Echo behind their latest album “Rip This,” with Beach Party and Blake Johns supporting. â–º Dreaming Bull [see the premiere of their new “DB EP”] headline the Satellite, supported by Nacosta and Austin Kolbe. â–º S (the side project of Carissa’s Wierd founding member Jenn Ghetto) […]
Incoming: Patti Smith, Avid Dancer, Banta, Run River North, LP, Scavenger Hunt, Young Creatures, Dead Meadow, Matteo Setti, G-Eazy, Bass Drum of Death, Dreaming Bull, Wet & Reckless, the Sound Reasons, Lettuce, Seinabo Sey, AKW, Bebe Rexha, You Blew It!, Cage the Elephant, John Oates, Dengue Fever, Partynextdoor, Sage, the Happy Hollows, Sam Outlaw, Babes, […]
