L.A. folk-pop quintet Milo Greene went straight for the sweet spot with their first two songs, the insistent “1957” and buoyant “Don’t You Give Up on Me.” Now the band, formed from the shards of Links, the Outline and the college friendship of Robbie Arnett, Andrew Heringer and Marlana Sheetz, gets all … well, autumnal, […]
Your choices for Monday fun: ‣ Vanessa Carlton, her fourth album “Rabbits on the Run” on the way due July 26, visits the RSVP-only It’s A School Night at Bardot. Electric Guest also performs. ‣ Thao & Mirah, their self-titled album on Kill Rock Stars winning a lot of indie hearts, visit the Hotel Cafe. […]
The underwater scenes in director Ted Newsome’s spectacular video for Warpaint’s signature song, “Warpaint,” make a perfect fit for the tune’s otherworldy textures. Or, as drummer Stella Mogzama told NPR when the video was premiered on Thursday: “It was an opportunity to create a fantastical world where oxygen, time and style were simply not an […]
Stars’ “In Our Bedroom After The War” yielded anthems such as “Take Me to the Riot” and “Bitches in Tokyo,” but the Montreal band just now let us in on a little secret. Torquil Campbell and mates actually went into the studio with Besnard Lakes’ Jace Lasek and recorded an album’s worth of songs in […]
It’s funny how sepia tones will make anything look romantic, and the clip for Kurt Vile‘s “Baby’s Arms” is liable to bring back memories of teen romance. The Todd Cole-directed music video for Vile’s latest single off of “Smoke Ring For My Halo” highlights the small things that matter in life: bike riding, BBQs, illegally […]
Tonight’s fare (hope to see you in Westwood): ‣ The seventh annual Also I Like to Rock series kicks off at the Hammer Museum, featuring up-and-coming U.K. electro-folk sensations Graffiti6 (that’s their video for “Stone in My Heart,” above) and L.A. indie-rock trio Eastern Conference Champions. The free show in the museum’s courtyard kicks off […]
[New tunes from three artists about whom we’ve blogged recently …] Active Child, “Hanging On” (via Adult Swim) – The debut album from Pat Grossi, “You Are All I See,” is quickly becoming one of the most anticipated releases of the second half of 2011, and songs like the aching, dreamy “Hanging On” are the […]
If you witnessed any of the Dante Vs. Zombies residency last month at the Echo, you’ll chuckle at the “Dante Vs. Zombies School of Fitness.” Because, of course, elbow bends are chief exercise at any function at which Dante Adrian White presides. The frontman has some fun with that notion in the video for “Oblivion” […]
[For all things pop and Euro, see Europopped, which shares this report:] On Saturday evening, Medina was onstage in front of around 50,000 people at the Roskilde Festival, performing one of her beloved-abroad hits, “You & I,” with Deadmau5 (the pair had success in England and beyond with his remix of the track two years […]
On Summer Darling’s self-titled album, released one year ago this week, the L.A. quartet wound prickly guitars and passionate lyrics into powder-keg indie-rock that seemed loosed from the ’90s. If flashbacks to the darned-near-mathematical precision of bands such as Cursive and Braid weren’t reward enough, Summer Darling exuded a working-class, no-frills aesthetic that ran counter […]
