What’s that you ask? When did teenage punk rockers the Orwells turn into a female doo-wop trio? No, the young Chicago-based quartet aren’t actually the stars in this video, but the melodies and lyrics sure do come through even when a girl group is relaying the message. There’s a morbid touch here and there, but […]
Kera and the Lesbians have a knack for wonderfully converging opposites: Sadness and happiness; vintage and modern; solitude and busy city life… Led by Kera Armendariz, the trio’s musical expedition between the extremes is an interesting whirlwind. So it makes sense that the Michael Delaney-directed video for their blues-heavy and anxiety-ridden track “Nailbiter” stars Armendariz as a […]
Despite recently losing Kim Deal, Pixies are back with a new single titled “Bagboy.” The song is the first piece of new material since 2004’s “Bam Thwok.” Although, it does have ties to older days of the band. Black Francis wrote it at a Starbucks on a Harvard campus that was only 25 feet from […]
Incoming: Beyoncé, Anberlin, Leann Rimes, Josh Groban, Royal Teeth, Damian Marley, La Santa Cecilia, New Kids on the Block, Karla Bonoff, Froth, the Hootnenanny, Go Betty Go, RX Bandits, Ian Anderson, the Warlocks, LL Cool J Above: New Orleans sextet Royal Teeth will releasd their debut album “Glow” on Aug. 13 on Dangerbird Records. And […]
For your super sunny Saturday:Â ‣Â Twin Shadow rolls through town again in support of his sophomore effort “Confess” and plays the Fonda Theatre. Elliphant and Touche open. ‣ Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar [that’s his video above for “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe”] get together at the Staples Center. ‣Â The Roots take on Club Nokia […]
Your very busy and very steamy Friday night: ‣ Milo Greene returns to L.A. for a sold-out hometown show at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ‣ It’s a free night of music downtown at the FIGat7th Downtown Festival, with Allah Las, Brooklyn’s Prince Rama and Gothic Tropic. ‣ Baths headline the El Rey […]
AM & Shawn Lee have bonded over ’60s pych-pop and ’70s Italian music, but their follow-up to their 2011 debut “Celestial Electric” turns up the disco. “La Musique Numérique” may sound auspicious considering Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” becoming a smash in the same season, but no matter. Alongside disco, the new record also embraces new […]
Actress-singer-songwriter Soko possesses a certain mystique that she translates into lo-fi, highly relatable narratives that belie her celebrity in her native France as a movie performer. Her January release for Community Music (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Alex Ebert, Aaron Embry) was titled “I Thought I Was an Alien,” 15 songs that cast the […]
‣ Ozomatli is the special guest at the 10-year anniversary celebration of the weekly club night Afro Funké at Zanzibar. ‣ One-man soul storm Bernhoft, the Norwegian singer who live-loops piano, guitar, beat boxing and vocals, visits the Troubadour, with Sun Rai opening. That’s Bernhoft’s video for “C’mon Talk,” above. [See our missive on Bernhoft […]
Sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin, now enjoying success as Bleached after putting Mika Miko in the rear-view mirror, have been the pin-up girls for punk and cool since releasing early singles such as “Searching for the Past” on Suicide Squeeze. From riding motorcycles to crowd surfing, their lackadaisical attitude and scuzzy melodies won even more […]
