Voxhaul Broadcast frontman David Dennis describes his band’s music as being “a lot about searching and even more about finding,” but it’s also about getting it right. When the L.A. quartet with the quirky, Morrissey-referencing name first emerged from Orange County four years ago with an EP on the incubator label Retone Records, they were […]
Everything that’s emerged so far from the camp of L.A. quintet Lonely Trees has had a dizzying vibe, dreamy stuff that’s as likely to melt hearts as it is to move bodies. We premiered “No Man’s Love” in November, and Christian Stone, Annalee Fery and gang followed that with a video for “Flutter,” which, well, […]
Havoc reigns in the video for the Living Sisters‘ “How Are You Doing?” But the remarkable part about it is not how well the cutesy triptych works – it is, after all, the work of Michel Gondry – but how good our heroic trio of L.A. songstresses look while all hell is breaking loose. They’re […]
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ album “Up From Below” is getting the epic treatment cinematically. The songs are being used as the backdrop for a 12-part music video series titled “Salvo!” and directed by Matt Amato. The storyline seems very “Mad Max” (in a Magnetic Zeros kind of way, of course) but the cinematography […]
Top shows to consider while setting aside time this morning for Warpaint’s appearance on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic: ‣ Literature and music collide at a charity event at the Bootleg Theater – Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro will perform, and author Mark Z. Danielewski will read from his 2006 novel “Only Revolutions,” which inspired the trio’s […]
There are a handful of songs that simmer on “I’m Like Whatever,” the 2010 release from L.A.’s All Wrong and the Plans Change, but no track brings the blood to a boil like “I Get Down.” Collaborators Kassia Conway (bass/vocals) and Amy Wood (drums), who are currently at work on a new EP, explore desert […]
Top shows to take the chill off your Monday night: ‣ Richard Swift makes magic as much as he does music. The former SoCal resident, now ensconced in Oregon and releasing music on Secretly Canadian, deals in various strains of baroque, chamber, ragtime, lounge and folk pop, making it all sound timeless. I can recommend […]
Tonight’s top shows: ‣ Local Natives perform at the sold-out Walt Disney Concert Hall. Weren’t these guys gigging at the Silverlake Lounge, like, last month? Seems like. The breakout quintet will perform one acoustic set with a string quartet, then a second plugged-in set with a 23-piece orchestra. ‣ Speaking of breakouts, Young the Giant […]
Husband-wife duos aren’t hard to come by anymore but Jacqueline Caruso and Augustus Green, who make up experimental pop duo Thurlow, are offering buoyant concoctions of electro beats and tender vocals that tickle the ear and lighten the heart. Originally from Washington, D.C., Thurlow’s move to L.A. has recently yielded the release of their debut […]
William James McAuley III – who makes music under the much less lawyerly name Bleu – fashions some of the most irresistible pure pop in these parts. (And in other parts too, since Bleu was just named “Best Boston Artist That Doesn’t Live in Boston.”) His 2010 release “Four” was financed by a Kickstarter campaign, […]
