Looks like a video to me, anyway, but Tori Amos is calling this a “visualette.” The deluxe edition of Amos’ new album, “Abnormally Attracted to Sin” (due Tuesday), has a DVD of visualettes videos that, according to the press release, are “interlocking episodic films bring to life the narrative arc of the album.” This episode […]
[Two cool feasts for the eyes and ears from L.A. environs …] Glasser is the nom de tune of L.A. singer-songwriter Cameron Mesirow, whose airy, beat-driven electro-hymns seem to defy gravity. Foreign Born’s Matt Popieluch collaborates in her band, whose three-song 12-inch, including this tune, “Apply,” will be released on True Panther on May 26 […]
||| Download: “Buzzsicle 3” I originally created Buzzsicle 3 for a special promotion, and … well, it’s a long story, but I never posted it until now. It’s an hour’s worth of music featuring 15 songs by L.A. artists Red Cortez, Spider Problem, the Yelling, Greyboy, the Gray Kid, Keenhouse, NightWaves, Shiloe, Robotanists, His Orchestra, […]
Jom Van Oostende directs this Tour de L.A. with Jason Heath & the Greedy Souls, and, yes, that’s Wayne Kramer of the MC5 guesting on guitar. “Anarchist Girl” is from Heath’s album, “The Vain Hope of Horse,” which offers a tough, bittersweet take on Americana and features cameos by Kramer, Nels Cline and Tom Morello. […]
Fitz & the Tantrums have an irresistible take on ’60s soul, and somehow I’d missed this video for “Breakin’ the Chains of Love” until somebody tapped me on the shoulder this week. Now that that’s taken care of, I’ve penciled in May 20 at Viper Room, where Fitz plays his next L.A. gig. Download the […]
[New from a couple of Los Angeles bands:] You know how hard it is to get decent tones out of your cymbals under water? Leave it to the guys in the Bronx to figure it out. Just watch out for the stage-diving shark. (Shot in a friend’s pool in the U.K., this is the video […]
More on the album when it lands in my mailbox, but for now here is the music video for His Orchestra’s “Black Coffin.” It’s directed by Leah McKissock, with cinematography by Aaron Lavinsky and choreography by Kristin Rapinchuk. The six-piece band, fronted by Douglas Smith (Ben Henrickson on “Big Love”), recently released its debut, “Field […]
Chaos is cute, especially when documented by a 10-year-old. That’s what happened when L.A. quartet Army Navy worked Justin Kennedy’s nephew into the video shoot for the song “Saints,” off the foursome’s self-titled debut. Great song, even if the video makes you wince in a couple places. ||| Live: Army Navy performs June 25 at […]
I have not heard the entirety of Maria Taylor’s new album “LadyLuck,” but this video is so disarmingly charming I might smile all the way to iTunes. The taller half of Azure Ray mends broken hearts on “Cartoons and Forever Plans;” the song features a guest turn by Michael Stipe. Taylor will perform at the […]
I cannot listen to a note of Man Man without recalling Passion of the Weiss’ hilarious and spot-on takedown of the band a couple of years ago. But that’s tangential to this video, directed by Lex Halaby and starring Fred Armisen, Martin Starr and Charlyne Yi. Spun off the band’s song “Rabbit Habits,” it’s a […]
