With Gliss having begun burying its roots as a shoegazer/noise-pop band on their fourth full-length, 2013’s “Langsom Dans,” the L.A.-based outfit now plunges headlong into ethereal electronica with the new song “Mirrored.” Carrying on after the 2013 departure of guitarist David Reiss, the duo of Victoria Cecilia and Martin Klingman are working on a new […]
The video for “Ballad of the Mighty I” — the tease from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ forthcoming album “Chasing Yesterday” — is good to the last drop, when the name of a frontman of another prominent U.K. band is dropped. Soaked in droll humor, the video-within-a-video follows the notoriously curmudgeonly Gallagher (we love what […]
OK, Mr. Glover, you made us smile too. Here’s the video for the song Childish Gambino performed Tuesday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Sober.” The song is off last October’s “Kauai” EP, and here he tries to woo a fellow patron at a late-night diner with his dance moves. Not that we’ve ever tried anything […]
Have a wonderful Wednesday: â–º El-P and Killer Mike, as Run the Jewels — so good back in November — are back for another L.A. show, this one at the Regent Theater. Until the Ribbon Breaks opens. â–º Singer-songwriter Misty Boyce, who spent much of the past two years touring with Sara Bareilles, celebrates next week’s release […]
As you might expect, the video for BØRNS first single “10,000 Emerald Pools” involves water, with images of upside-down swimmers cutting languorously through a bluish-green pool, occasionally dissolving to the apparitional visage of Garrett Borns. All of which is a bit showbiz, since the backstory is that the song derives its title from the street […]
Oakland-reared, Los Angeles-based Aaron Valenzuela’s music under the monkier Harriet Brown is equal parts funky and seductive, harking back to the magical purple Minneapolis scene of the 1980s while updating the nostalgic R&B sound for modern day. The one-man band as performer, producer and songwriter released his debut EP, “New Era,” via Feel So Real […]
Forty-six seconds into the Girlpool documentary “Things Are OK,†directed by Cory McConnell, bassist Harmony Tividad lets out a piercing shriek as they perform their song “Jane†in front of an intimate audience. The yearling L.A. duo consisting of Cleo Tucker along with Tividad boast unapologetic confrontation amidst raw harmonies. From “Things Are OK†we […]
Tuesday’s show schedule: â–º Massachusetts quartet California X celebrate today’s release of their album “Nights in the Dark” by bringing their ’90s-style rock to La Cita, with Happy Diving supporting. You like Dinosaur Jr.? Check out the video for “Hadley, MA,” above. â–º Lady Low continues their residency at the Harvard & Stone, supported by […]
Sia shouldn’t have had to apologize for her “Elastic Heart” video, but last week’s firestorm was to be expected considering it stars an actor with baggage. In case you were napping and weren’t one of the 35 million-plus viewers on YouTube: The video, directed the Australian songstress and Daniel Askill, features the spill-a-minute actor Shia […]
Incoming: Ivy Levan, Sego, Holychild, Wildling, the Fontaines, Josh Kelley, the Janks, California X, Evolove, Ivory Deville, the Temporary Thing, Run the Jewels, the Wood Brothers, French Exit, Misty Boyce, Jonny Craig, Eric McFadden, Leela James, Parade of Lights, the New Deal, Brian Lopez, Chain & the Gang, Flaamingos, the Budos Band, James Williamson, Vaud […]
