Those who’ve witnessed Sarah Negahdari perform outside her role as frontwoman / pixie shredder of the L.A. indie-rock trio the Happy Hollows know that her imagination can run wild, and rope listeners into accompanying her to a far-off place. “Negahdariland,” it’s been called, and it seems to be the birthplace of her solo work, which […]
Austin’s the Strange Boys get out of the garage – at least production-wise – on “Live Music” (out this week on Rough Trade), their third album in as many years. But they still haven’t gotten out of the ’60s, which is all right, considering their folk ’n’ blues ’n’ psych ’n’ roll seems made to […]
Your Wednesday show picks: ‣ Happy times and exuberant music at the El Rey Theatre, where Grouplove and Family of the Year hold forth. Grouplove’s debut “Never Trust a Happy Song” came out in September (that’s the video for “Tongue Tied,” above), and Family of the Year this month released its new “St. Croix” EP. […]
Guitar rockers making mind-bending electro – “Stitches,” the first single from the Polinski album “Labyrinths,” features two of them. Polinski is the nom de tune of Paul Wolinski of U.K. math-rockers 65daysofstatic, and the phased vocals on the track belong to Jonathan Bates, the Mellowdrone main man whose own foray into electro, as Big Black […]
Yuna first picked up at guitar at the age of 14, but it wasn’t until she was in the midst of studying law that she began to hone her songwriting craft with performances in the public eye. Now, the 24-year-old Malaysian singer is making herself at home in L.A. while she brings some of those […]
In the battle between original sin and disco, there are no losers. At least, when said fight is orchestrated by Alex Lilly and Bram Inscore, the multi-instrumentalist art-schoolers whose wry take on electro has been realized in the new project Touché. Longtime friends Lilly and Inscore are familiar faces on the L.A. scene; Lilly for […]
[Thanks to Seraphina and Trina for holding down the fort while I was on vacation. Big week ahead, starting with Bill Wyman’s 75th birthday today …] Monday madness: ‣ Gold Panda, the U.K. producer whose career took off in 2010 after the release of his debut “Lucky Shiner,” visits the Echoplex. He has a mixtape […]
The clip for the Airborne Toxic Event‘s new single, “All I Ever Wanted” may play it safe with the storyline of boy meets girl, but to be perfectly honest, it’s a big relief after what we experienced from the “little band from Los Feliz” in their last music video. With Nora Kirkpatric of Edward Sharpe […]
Unlike their humorous video for “We Don’t Want Your Body”, the new clip for Stars‘ track “Dead Hearts” is a somber one starring a man who constantly sees a large heart everywhere he goes after attending a funeral. Although death and love are not unusual subject matters for the Montreal-based band, the conceptualization and images […]
Almost as if these images were taken straight out of a teenager’s Tumblr feed, Bleeding Knees Club‘s clip for their new single “Teenage Girls” is a live collage of kittens, cigarettes, apple bongs and hipster gals staring into the lens with ultimate apathy. Fortunately, the music of Jordan Malane, Alex Wall and Matt Woods is […]
