L.A. shoegazers Sky Parade have unveiled the video for “I Should be Coming Up (But I Keep Coming Down,” the track we debuted back in Feburary. It should perk up fans of the Dandy Warhols – the song was produced by Courtney Taylor-Taylor and features Zia McCabe. The foursome’s third album, “Intoxicated,” came out in […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire …] Top 3 reasons to go out and play tonight: ‣ Acoustic guitar shredders Rodrigo y Gabriela (that’s their video for “Hanuman,” above) play the Greek Theatre, joined by Xavier Rudd. ‣ Childish Gambino raps at the Bootleg Theater. That’s the hip-hop alter-ego of […]
Fresh off a three-day gig at the World Expo tour in Shanghai, Newfoundland rockers Hey Rosetta are preparing for a U.S. tour supporting fellow Canadians Hot Hot Heat. Featuring brooding lyrics behind soaring instrumentation, the band uses violin and cello along with traditional rock guitars, piano and drums. Their first proper album “Into Your Lungs” […]
The Prids’ “Chronosynclastic” has got to be one of my sleeper albums the year; its noisy-beautiful neo-shoegaze keeps finding its way into my car CD player, perfect for both traffic jams and the open road. (Chris Martins touts it here; suffice to say it’s not far sonically from the early recordings by Silversun Pickups.) The […]
Top 6 reasons to stop watching Charlize Theron in this video and see a show tonight: ‣ The Killers’ Brandon Flowers unveils songs from his solo album “Flamingo” (due Sept. 14) at a sold-out show at the Troubadour. It quite possibly could be as action-packed as Nash Edgerton’s video for “Crossfire,” above. ‣ Darker My […]
You should already know about Superhumanoids’ “Urgency” EP, either from the mountains of blog love it’s been getting or from the indie-pop quartet’s myriad local shows. This sharp new video for the song “Persona” makes for a great companion. It’s the work of Eli Gunn-Jones, a mini-thriller with spying, derring-do and whimsy. Check out an […]
Seems as if it’s been forever since Great Northern unveiled its shimmering sophomore album “Remind Me Where the Light Is.” [Maybe it’s time to dust that album off?] The dream-pop duo of Solon Bixler and Rachel Stolte has been in the studio working on new material, “writing, recording, plotting” and working on “other exciting new […]
Clogs are a chamber quartet that makes experimental-minded, mostly instrumental music and share members – Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome – with the acclaimed indie-rock band the National. Earlier this year, the foursome released “The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton” (which I nabbed based on eMusic’s tout), and they just followed with the […]
It’s harder to keep track of Ferraby Lionheart’s movements than his music. Born in L.A. and reared in Nashville, the singer-songwriter spent his formative music-making years back in Los Angeles before retreating, after his 2007 Nettwerk debut “Catch the Brass Ring,” to Nashville. He’s spent some time in Sweden, cleared his head on a beach […]
Here’s a mind-bender: The video for Broken Social Scene’s “Forced to Love,” the work of Adam Makarenko and Alan Poon, uses “cutting-edge 3D rendering” to project the band in holographic fashion. Explains Poon: “It’s an experimental 3D scanning technology that detects the displacement of a grid pattern of any object in front of it. The […]
