Portland, Ore.-based collective Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside has cleverly combined country, rockabilly, blues and soul and spun them with flair, fashioning a batch of songs that won’t be going out of style anytime soon. Although Ford – backed by Tyler Tornfelt, Ford Tennis and Jeff Munger – might look petite, her thunderous voice […]
The only downside to Seasons’ music has been that there’s not enough of it. Through a trickle of three EPs, the Highland Park outfit’s neo-psychedelic indie-rock has been compelling at the very least, and often mesmerizing. They are about to hole up with producer Raymond Richards to make their “Autumn” EP (completing a set that […]
Tonight in our little town: ‣ Three of Manimal Vinyl’s most promising artists – Sister Crayon, Jenny O and Papercranes – will be joined by Blackbird Blackbird and more at the Exchange (618 S. Spring). Details. That’s Sister Crayon’s video for “(in) Reverse,” above. ‣ John Hiatt headlines the Troubadour behind his new album “Dirty […]
What can you say about the video for My Morning Jacket’s funked-up jam “Holdin’ on to Black Metal” except “I’ll have one of whatever he is having?” Wish I were at Lollapalooza this year.
There is no doubt that the Mountain Goats‘ John Darnielle is an impressive wordsmith. Autobiographical tales or not, the musician has now released 14 studio albums in addition to several EPs and cassettes that showcase exquisite storytelling, and the band’s latest record, “All Eternals Deck” contains lyrics that have not backed down. Darnielle’s daunting layers […]
Tuesday’s offerings: ‣ New Zealand quintet the Naked and Famous bring their “Young Blood” to the Music Box, where White Sea – the solo venture of Morgan Kibby of M83, who did this cool remix of the hit – opens. ‣ Mariachi El Bronx, the alter ego of punk-rockers the Bronx, release their second album […]
[Happy Saturday, and happy birthday Kate Bush. The Yuck video for “Shook Down,” below, is NSFW, so you’ve been warned, but it’s so well done it should be shared …] Your Saturday fare: ‣ L.A. Rising roars away a the L.A. Coliseum with a lineup of Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Rise Against, Ms. Lauryn […]
There are a trunk full of layers in Ladytron’s video for “White Elephant,” the first single off the U.K. quartet’s suprisingly dreamy fifth album “Gravity the Seducer.” What’s the burden here, and whose burden is it? Where we can get the number of their costume designer? And how did we not get an invite to […]
There’s a console full of slick production tricks on “The Fall,” the new album from L.A. electro duo Public Jones – so many, in fact, that the debut (out Aug. 2) from the team of Asghar Husain and Peter Kerekes gets lost in the ether somewhere between the synth-rock of today and techno-rock of the […]
L.A. quartet Superhumanoids have a slightly off-kilter name, so it’s fitting in a way that the visual accompaniment to their song “Malta” be abnormal as well. The song, which is off of their recent “Parasite Parade” EP, offers lyrics that focus on the fear of a friendship falling apart. To represent this questionable relationship, director […]
