Thursday’s things: ‣ Canadian rockers Young Empires play the Bootleg Bar, supported by Humans and Kiven, with the headliners having recently unleashed one of the most mind-blowing interactive videos ever. Above, is the non-interactive version of “White Doves” – dramatic enough to be sure. But if you go here and log on to see the […]
Deep Sea Diver’s debut “History Speaks” is one of those albums that reveals itself in layers – peel back one and another appears, possibly more mysterious and probably even more alluring. At the current rate of return spins, it’ll be a contender for our album of the year, if it wasn’t immediately. To background [in case you […]
Incoming: Barry Manilow, Beach House, Wild Nothing, Lyle Lovett, Big Freedia, Mates of State, Sara Watkins, Races, Rancid, YACHT, Mary Lorson and more Above: Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel frolic in Mates of State’s recent video for “Unless I’m Led.” The indie-pop duo play Thursday and Saturday at the Echo. Our staff picks of the […]
Milo Greene’s song “1957” has been with us since last spring, and there’s something in the sweep and the harmonies that doesn’t get old. The rustic setting of Chad Huff’s video for the song is nice too, but the real magic is in the manual typewriter, pecking along to the beat. Used to know a […]
Kicking off your weekend, the Friday fare: ‣ We don’t know if it will buy you a new life, but $30 will get you a ticket to tonight’s “Summerland” tour at the Greek Theatre, and probably some fond memories of 1990s radio. Everclear – that’s the band’s new (yes, new) video for “Be Careful What […]
For seven albums, Eleni Mandell has been the best damned Los Angeles songwriter without a proper record contract, which boggles the mind when you consider her catalog and its graceful excursions into pop, rock, jazz and country. That distinction changes July 10, when her new collection “I Can See the Future” comes out on Yep […]
Here are your Thursday things: ‣ Indie hip-hop standout El-P visits Check Yo Ponytail at the Echoplex behind his first solo album in five years, “Cancer for Cure,” joined by Killer Mike and more. ‣ U.K. funk-soul outfit the Heavy, with its third album “The Glorious Dead” coming in August [here’s a sample], plays the […]
Sure, U.K.’s Two Wounded Birds‘ debut album is out now on the Drums’ label, Holiday Friend Record Company (a newly minted subsidiary of Frenchkiss Records). But put that association aside, and this Margate, England-based quartet has come up with some beautiful dream-pop tunes on their self-titled record. Hazy bass-heavy lines alongside wistfully sung lyrics in […]
Jens Lekman will return with a new album titled “I Know What Love Isn’t” on Sept. 4 via Secretly Canadian, but our first taste of the the follow-up to his EP, “An Argument With Myself,” seems rather somber. Melodrama is nothing new for the Swedish crooner, but the sentiments on the record’s first single, “Erica […]
