The new single from The Moth & the Flame is a roof-rattler the L.A. quartet have been playing in concerts for several months now, “Young & Unafraid.” The band — Utah ex-pats Brandon Robbins (guitars and vocals), Mark Garbett (keyboards and vocals) and Andrew Tolman drums) along with L.A. cohort Michael Goldman on bass — […]
Jutty Ranx continues to garner attention in global pop circles, even if Justin Taylor and his music aren’t household commodities in the U.S., or even his hometown. Of course, the promo for the song “Digital Love” — a collaboration between Finnish pop duo Tom & Hills and the L.A. artist — refers to Jutty Ranx as […]
Dutch Party’s laced-with-cool funk-pop debuted in December with two tracks from the mind and fingers of singer-songwriter Ken Franklin. With Dutch Party now playing around town as a five-piece, the band last week released its debut EP “Astral Nights,” which features those first two songs, “Paper Moon” and “Echo Girl” and four more, including the […]
Great lineup of Tuesday shows: ► Matt & Kim headline the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “New Glow.” Get there early for WATERS, who just dropped their sophomore album “What’s Real.” ► Waxahatchee rocks the Roxy behind this month’s release of the full-length “Ivy Tripp” (above the video for “Under a Rock”). Girlpool opens. […]
“I’m not a flag waver,†insisted Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson at the Wiltern on Saturday night as fans held out small Union Jack flags. Last year, England’s quintessential lad-rockers released their fifth studio album “Education, Education, Education & War,†but it’s still their first album “Employment†that packs the biggest live punch. ||| Photos […]
Vanessa Long calls the often-mystical, always-clever songs she makes as Cillie Barnes “gyp-hop” — sung and sung-spoken meditations that have the quality of diary entries. Her downtempo new single “Symmetry,” part of a small collection “The Friendly Witch” that she is releasing this week, feels like she’s letting you in on a secret. “I wrote ‘Symmetry’ […]
There’s nothing like some projectile vomiting to announce your long-awaited third album. That’s a disclaimer for the video above, “New Coke,” which is the first song to emerge from Echo Park’s experimental noise band HEALTH‘s new album, “Death Magic,” their first album since 2009’s “Get Color.” Since then, they recorded the soundtrack to the video […]
Since they debuted over four years ago, L.A. duo the Young Romans have dispensed their bright, nimble indie-pop on a full-length and a couple of EPs, and seen their work used in a host of TV shows and films, including “Drop Dead Diva,” “Pretty Little Liars,” “the Fosters,” “The Lying Game” and “Salmon Fishing In […]
Here’s to a mighty good Monday: â–º Rapper-singer-poet-activist Saul Williams [pictured], whose new (Justin Warfield-produced) album “Martyr Loser King” comes out in July and who recently dropped a collaboration with Emily Kokal of Warpaint, headlines the Roxy Theatre. Sons of an Illustrious Father open. â–º Crush_DLX, the new project from Pop Levi and (whatever she’s […]
Incoming: Desert Daze, Zane Carney, Saul Williams, Odessa, Dorothy, Winter, Barrows, Nothing But Thieves, Matt & Kim, Waxahatchee, Clockwise, From Indian Lakes, Robert Francis, Jose Gonzalez, Milo Greene, Magic Wands, the Orb, the Romany Rye, Mastodon, Distant Cousins, Buck 65, the Soft Moon, Sleater-Kinney, Keren Ann, Aluna George, Big Data, They Might Be Giants, Kinky, […]
