If you like your electro-pop with a bit of goth, then L.A.-based duo Vow may be your next fix. The duo of Julia Blake and Andrew Thomas extract the pulses from the dance floor only to blanket them with dark wave and post-punk textures. Their latest single “Planks” boasts a gauzy take on ’80s and […]
Cloud Nothings, the Cardigans’ Nina Persson and Quantic are among the first batch of artists announced to play Oct. 16-18 at the fifth annual Culture Collide, the first of the internationally flavored series that will go off without the imprimatur of Filter magazine. Filter announced last month that it is folding, with the company’s partners […]
Great local shows and more on the menu for Wednesday: ‣ New York lo-fi folk singer Juan Wauters visits Los Globos behind his album “N.A.P. North American Poetry,” released on Captured Tracks earlier this year. Get there early for Guy Blakeslee. Puro Instinct also plays. Above, Juan Wauters’ video for “Water.” ‣ Singer-songwriter Aaron Embry […]
When Buddy refers to his music as “wimpycore,” we think he’s talking in the past tense. Maybe his long-ago EP of sparse singer-songwriter fare qualifies, or “Alterations & Repairs,” the 2007 release that saw Buddy become a band. But certainly not “Last Call for the Quiet Life,” the long-awaited, long-fretted-over follow-up. Conceived and recorded with […]
A Sunny Day In Glasgow‘s sophomore release “Ashes Grammar” has been noted by both fans and critics for its wonderful amalgamation of shoegaze, dream-pop and synth-pop. The album was followed up with “Autumn, Again” in 2010 but we haven’t heard much from the sextet since. Their latest release “Sea When Absent” returns with some more […]
Broncho burst out of Oklahoma a couple of years ago doing everything right – playing with abandon and releasing an album full of concise garage-pop songs that recalled the mercurial early days of punk rock. Their label, though, apparently did everything wrong, tanking while the band built around the talents of Ryan Lindsey, Nathan Price and […]
As opposed to the brisk first single “Just One of the Guys,” the title track to Jenny Lewis’ forthcoming album “The Voyager” is a string-soaked paean to self-realization with a NASA theme. “The Voyager’s in every boy and girl / If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world,” Lewis sings, perfectly and […]
In his solo guise as Gold Star, Marlon Rabenreither’s woozy, melancholic songs have the feel of instant classics, reminiscent of any number of writers who had dicey relationships with their Muse. The former art-schooler and frontman of the Sister Ruby Band seems to operate from the premise that the best way to achieve clarity is […]
Tuesday’s happenings: ‣ KISS and Def Leppard rock you back at the Forum. ‣ Cleveland rockers Cloud Nothings play the Roxy theatre behind their new album “Here and Nowhere Else” (that’s their new video for “Psychic Trauma,” above), with Metz opening. ‣ The Mowgli’s start a two-night stand at the Troubadour. Get there early tonight […]
The good, the bad, the ugly … and the pixelated? That’s the bizarre filter through which the cinematic Old West is filtered in the video for EFG’s new slab of psych-rock “Singing Bridges.” The video is the work of artist, photographer and filmmaker Sam Falls of San Diego, who let his digital demons take over […]