Jennifer and Jenny are two very different names, and pop-rockers Taylor Locke & the Roughs show this in their new video for the latter. In comparison to 2010’s video where the band spends a little time in a dark club with a “Jennifer in high heel shoes,” this year’s clip shot by Nick Williams in […]
Since he released his trippy debut album “A” in 2008, Matt Gangi – who does business as Gangi – has been painstakingly working on the next step. Did I say “painstakingly?” I meant .. agonizingly … slow. It’s OK, though. Gangi, who has a new collaborator in Eric Chramosta (replacing Lyle Nesse), has now put […]
There’s not much to the video except a lot of slow-mo detonations, but the news is that Shadow Shadow Shade, with little fanfare, unveiled a new song this morning. “Tell Me Who You Are” is a languid ballad featuring a Brian Canning/Claire McKeown duet. The song will be part of a three-track release the Los […]
The Lovely Bad Things are so much fun that you’ll want to bottle your sweat for the next time. The young quartet, straight outta La Mirada, fashions undeniably hooky, unfailingly cathartic proto-punk that abides all traditions of garage rock – biting guitar riffs, furious rhythms, shout-sung lyrics and more than enough ’tude go with their […]
Youth Lagoon’s just-add-reverb pop is a study in the stultifying (and we recognize ours is a minority opinion), but it sure does make for good cinema. Director Tyler T Williams’ video for “July” – off young songwriter Trevor Powers’ debut album “The Year of Hibernation” – is bloody good. Williams had previously captured Youth Lagoon’s […]
Every time Busdriver makes an album, you feel like you’re in the movie “Speed” – the L.A. rapper can’t let up on the accelerator, things fly by and you’re left waiting for a big explosion. It’s doesn’t sound any different on “Beaus$Eros,” the veteran’s seventh album, due Feb. 14 via Fake Four Inc. The L.A. […]
“Paint a Rocket” is the new song from Pisces, the experimental folk-pop explorations of Happy Hollows frontwoman Sarah Negahdari. A shredder in her indie-rock trio, Negahdari takes on a whole new persona as Pisces. Both in her initial video “Voodoo” [see our post from October] and in “Paint a Rocket,” Pisces takes a spacious, dreamy […]
‣ Arty electro-pop is the order of the night at the Bootleg Theater, where the dressy duo Hi Fashion headlines and the supporting set features Professor Possessor, a self-described “dark-wave/witch-pop” quartet featuring singer Jess from Big Moves. That’s Professor Possessor’s video for “Race With the Devil,” above.” ‣ At the Echo, it’s Dead Dawn, along […]
Partied out from the holidays? “Liberty St.,” the gorgeous meditation from Ben Heywood, Dan Rossiter and Summer Darling, will help you take inventory. The new tune from the indie-rockers whose self-titled 2010 album offered an uncompromising look at Heywood’s own battle to keep his life on the rails, is, he says, “dedicated to all our […]
When we last looked in on L.A. expatriates the Black Pine, principals Mitch Cichocki and Emma Kathan were in Florida embarking on a new band under a new name. That project “fell apart,” Kathan reports, so the husband-and-wife team packed up their instruments and their penchant for making mesmerizing, cinematic rock songs and relocated to […]
