FIDLAR returns with the fourth and final music video in support of their “DIYDUI” EP, and if you thought a sand-boarding Grim Reaper was odd in the clip for “Wake Bake Skate,” the plot for “Oh” will make that seem like a pleasant daydream. Directed by Ryan Baxley, a day at Joshua Tree gets out […]
Leaps Days like today may inspire some to try different ventures, be braver and perhaps even grow up a little. But the guys in this clip for Moses Campbell‘s new track “Ceiling” remind us how easy it is to just be a kid and nothing else. In a similar vein to infamous best buds like […]
Progressive and electro house DJ Morgan Page first popped up on to everyone’s radar when he released “The Longest Road” in 2008, which featured a then less well-known Lissie. Now a Grammy-nominated artist who is preparing for the release of his fifth studio album, “In the Air” (out April 3 via Nettwerk), Page offers a […]
The first two albums from L.A. trio Gliss tread in the footsteps of some of rock’s great shoegazing bands, taking their sometimes-inscrutable wall of sound and ladling on a thick coat of danger and angst. Martin Klingman, Victoria Cecilia and David Reiss had hinted that the follow-up to 2009’s “Devotion Implosion” would be different, and […]
Your Oscar-night music agenda: ‣ Nineties indie-rock provocateurs Archers of Loaf are back, with a remastered, deluxe version of 1995’s “Vee Vee” just out on Merge and similar editions of “All the Nation’s Airports” and “White Trash Heroes” due later this year. Dipping into the Chapel Hill quartet’s vaults has yielded (previously only VHS) videos […]
Hands’ shimmering synth-pop doesn’t play into anything pat – when we premiered “Warm Night Home” in October, we noted the L.A. quartet’s predisposition toward shifting tones and rhythms, and its layered complexities. Director Jack Price’s video for the song (which, the band announced today, will be on the “Massive Context” EP, out April 10) suggests […]
Although many of us still miss the Unicorns, supporting Nicholas Thorburn in Islands isn’t such a bad thing. The Montreal-based band recently released “A Sleep & A Forgetting,” and the follow-up to 2009’s highly regarded “Vapors” has been worth the wait. Thorburn’s modern pop has always been a bit adventurous, but his new break-up record […]
We give you a couple lovely acoustic videos to go with your Thursday show list: ‣ Good Times for a Good Cause Dept.: Wires in the Walls, Telstar and Little Red Lung team up for a benefit show at the Mint presented by Rock Is a Girl’s Best Friend and Buzz Bands LA (who will […]
Portland, Ore.,-based band Unknown Mortal Orchestra have a knack for releasing odd music videos. The playfulness of it all can either come off arty or simply bizarre, but their visual accompaniments are nonetheless entertaining. In support of their self-titled album (out now on Fat Possum), their Sam Kristofski-directed clip for “Strangers Are Strange” is a […]
When the Bixby Knolls rocked a residency last May at the Echo, the release of the L.A. quartet’s full-length album seemed imminent. We’re still waiting, but the quartet of Curt Barlage, Sammy Fayed, Christian Morales and Cesar Saez De Nanclares have issued a warning: Their music could be dangerous. Decadence reigns in the Bixby Knolls’ […]
