If the sleek disco or the sexy sheen or the call-and-response chorus of “It’s Like This, It’s Like That” – the first single from Henri – doesn’t hook you, then Cole Rise’s video for the song will. The clip from Rise (a National Geographic photographer and creator of popular filters for Instagram) features some “salacious” […]
White Arrows’ sophomore album “In Bardo” is somewhat of a departure from the L.A.-based quintet’s big electro-tinged psych-pop, but not so much that Mickey Church’s falsetto goes unrecognized. Slightly darker and bit more on the psych-rock side, White Arrows’ first single “Leave It Alone” allowed the guitars to switch places with synths for the spotlight […]
Juan Velazquez played in Abe Vigoda, the tropi-punks whose four-album exploits supernova-ed with the Pitchfork-approved “Crush” in 2010. Roses, Velasquez’s new venture with Marc Steinberg and Victor Herrera, is not that. It’s a cool-as-a-Members-Only-jacket collision of post-punk and New Wave that fans of the Psychedelic Furs might fall for. Los Angeles has long been a […]
Jake Hays’ bedroom in Agoura Hills must be a lonely place, judging from the shadowy pop he creates there under the name Maudlin Strangers. Back in May, Maudlin Strangers debuted with with the aching single “Overdose,” which producer Bass Science then remixed and, boom, the electro ears of the world, or at least Soundcloud, migrated […]
Kan Wakan’s stunning debut album “Moving On” has all the elements of an epic film score – lush orchestration, arresting mood swings, subtly recurring musical bits – that it makes sense that virtually every song will make for great cinema. And so it is with the video for the sultry “Like I Need You,” directed by […]
School of Seven Bells announced today it would release a new album – featuring parts recorded by producer-guitarist Benjamin Curtis before his diagnosis with lymphoma and during his treatment. Curtis died on Dec. 29 at age 35. SVIIB’s Alejandra Deheza says she is working on completing the new album, the follow-up to 2012’s “Ghostory.” Meanwhile, […]
It’s been about 2 1/2 years since Delta Spirit released its third album, a self-titled affair that completed the SoCal-bred quintet’s transformation from folk band to rock band. That time period also saw Delta Spirit pack its gear and relocate to New York – just in time, it turned out, for Superstorm Sandy to wreak […]
Your Wednesday offerings: ‣ Producer Will Holland – dba Quantic – headlines the Roxy Theatre behind his new album “Magnetico.” Subsuelo opens. Above, the video for “Duvidó,” feat. Pongo Love. ‣ Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ian McLagan last week released his first album in five years, “United States,” and the former Faces/Small Faces keyboardist tonight […]
Just when you think nobody is pushing any boundaries and everything “new” fits into some samey-sounding genre, something like Amoureux materializes out of the ether. Amoureux’s avant-pop is the brainchild of drummer Nicole Turley and bassist Holiday J, who intersperse a few synths, violins and saxophones into the minimalist compositions on their debut EP “Never […]
Hailing from the so-small town of Baraboo, Wis., six high school friends relocated to Madison to find fulfillment in music together and became PHOX. After a couple years of cohabiting, creating home videos (a fun series you can watch on YouTube), and recording music in their bedroom, they attracted the interest of producer, Brian Joseph […]
