Sometimes you hear a voice and wonder where it’s been all this time, and why this voice hasn’t been singing all your favorite songs all along. Often such an artist had been writing hit songs for other people, and that’s exactly the case with Scottish soul and R&B singer Emeli Sandé. With tunes like the […]
It took Eyes Lips Eyes over a year to record 2011’s “Blue Red,” but the quartet, who call their sound “disco-punk,” are already hard at work on their follow-up album. Perhaps it’s because Tony Hello, Spencer Petersen, Aaron Hatch and Thomas Carroll all felt the rushing momentum of L.A. as soon as they made the […]
M83 have been busy touring in support of their latest record “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” (we’ve witnessed three of those dates since its release), but they also continue to bear gifts in the form of highly cinematic music videos. The story line for the electrifying “Reunion” picks up right where the clip for “Midnight City” […]
Jotted on a napkin while free-associating with the Henry Clay People’s album “Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives,” coming out June 26 on TBD Records: We know that what we are doing is transitory, and we will very likely – although reluctantly – grow out of it. We know that what we are doing […]
“See My Eyes” remains one of the dreamiest slices of synth-pop we’ve heard this year. The track from the L.A. duo DWNTWN appears with a host of sonic bedfellows on the recently released Kitsuné America compilation. This video *** was directed by Kevin Chao (NoMsg) in downtown L.A. ||| Live: DWNTWN performs with Heartsrevolution, XXYYXX […]
