If you think you’ve never heard of Brooklyn quartet Chappo, you’re probably wrong. Chances are you’ve heard their song “Come Home” in an iPod Touch commercial from two years ago. The track was originally off of their “Plastique Universe” EP, which was followed up by “Plastique Universe II: Pisces Princess” EP. After several short releases, […]
Chop Love Carry Fire – the triumvirate of singer-bassist Jeremy Toback (Brad), guitairst Joel Graves (Everest) and drummer Butch Norton (Eels) – carved out a slot in our music mixes last August with their self-titled debut EP. The song “Save” from that EP gets quite a video treatment from L.A.-based animation company Shipmate Title, which […]
Tuesday night in the city: ‣ Singer, multi-instrumentalist and looping wizard Emily Wells visits Largo behind her new album “Mama,” which was recorded on a horse ranch in Topanga. That’s her homemade video for “Passenger,” above. Appearing with her: The Portland Cello Project, whose own new album “Homage” features arrangements of hip-hop songs. No kidding: […]
“Four years. Never again!” Meiko says. Yes, it’s taken that much time for her sophomore album, “The Bright Side,” to arrive. The former Hotel Cafe waitress-turned-singing sensation was the first artist signed to then-booming MySpace Records back in the day, shooting up the songwriter charts on iTunes and finding her songs in hit TV shows. […]
With January’s “Looking Through” EP, L.A.-based trio Warm Weather – Justin Lerman, Brendan Lynch-Salamon and Ryan Pollie – placed itself in league with harmony-driven pop acts such as Local Natives, Lady Danville and Milo Greene. Their video for “So Far/Vertigo” (off 2011’s “Dances” EP) takes the trio’s vocal calisthenics on the road. The Cocoon Central […]
Quite a Saturday in store: ‣ Rufus Wainwright headlines the Orpheum Theatre behind the release of his seventh album, “Out of the Game.” That’s Wainwright’s video for the title track, featuring Helena Bonham Carter, above. ‣ Brendan Benson’s fifth album “What Kind of World” came out late last month, and he swings through for a […]
There’s a prismatic effect when Sacramento’s Julie Baenziger, aka Sea of Bees, sings “I’ll be fine” over and over on “Broke,” a track off of her latest record “Orangefarben” (out now on Team Love Records). You can hear heartache as much as you can hear a newly profound strength as she sings of a relationship […]
Thursday things: ‣ JD Samson & MEN visit the Echoplex behind this week’s release of their “Time” EP – the second of four EPs the band plans to release this year. L.A.’s Brother and Touché support. That the video for MEN’s “Make Him Pay,” above. ‣ Retro wunderkind Nick Waterhouse celebrates the release of his […]
Foster the People‘s sugary yet fist-pumping electro-pop has brought a different sound to the mainstream world of dance music, and they just keep churning out the singles and accompanying quirky videos from their album “Torches.” The music video for “Houdini,” one of the tracks off that 3-song self-titled EP which landed them a late slot […]
Denizens of Echo Park, beware. Meg Myers has had enough of you. Her single “Tennessee” oozes with contempt for your self-congratulatory poses, so the L.A. songstress, a native of the Volunteer State, has taken it one step further. Paired up with her producer/co-writer Doctor Rosen Rosen and armed with Nerf weapons, Myers goes on a […]
