“King Devil is the bad guy we have inside of us,” Joe Fraley says of his new nom de tune, and you can hear the singer-guitarist wrestling his demons throughout King Devil’s self-titled album. Fraley’s fearlessly eclectic brand of acoustic blues and rawboned, off-kilter psych-pop simmers with frustration and rage – music inspired, he says, […]
Ever since we first saw him in the young band Simon Dawes, Blake Mills has been a marvel. And the guitarist, songwriter and (now) producer continues to be. He’s the subject of a new mini-documentary that takes a look at his prodigious talents. Mills, 25, has not only played astride myriad L.A. artists (and released […]
It’s hard not to be charmed by Sylvie Lewis. The London chanteuse has been busy touring with the likes of Sondre Lerche and Adam Cohen, since 2005’s “Tango and Tantrums,” but Lewis has finally put out new alluring material. Her latest studio album “It’s All True” has musical imprints from the many friends she’s made […]
L.A. psych-pop explorers HOTT MT etched their names in music lore in January, when they drove to Oklahoma City and arrived on the doorstep of Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne to deliver him a birthday present. Instead of chasing them off, Coyne invited HOTT MT into his home and studio, and they ended up staying […]
