The Peach Kings, the L.A.-based duo of Paige Wood and Steven Trezevant, had us reaching for another bottle of something strong with last year’s “Trip Wop” EP, a mash-up of influences that no matter how much you stirred added up to something sexy. Their space age lounge-ready blues gets sharper on their new “Handsome Moves” […]
Seems as if two or three generations of Silver Lake musicians have come and gone since the neighborhood last heard from Earlimart, one of the early (and most enduring, owing to the many bands who have recorded at Aaron Espinoza’s studio The Ship) denizens of the scene. Long known as torchbearers for the lush intimacy […]
We’re all over the map this Thursday: ‣ Jesca Hoop, who earned raves for her show earlier this week at Largo, continues her West Coast tour behind her new album “The House That Jack Built.” She’s touring with Grammy winner Jesse Harris, whose own new album “Sub Rosa” came out last month. Tonight they play […]
With its glossy cinematography and nifty animation, the video for Max and Moon’s “Out of My Head” tugs on a lot of heartstrings. Under the direction of Kamell Allaway, the L.A. quartet’s buoyant paean to lost love is at turns playful and tragic. The video was filmed by Jonathan Pope, with lush production design by […]
Wymond Miles may be known as the lead guitarist for the San Francisco-based garage rockers the Fresh & Onlys, but his solo debut “Under the Pale Moon” (out now on Sacred Bones Records) has also been getting attention. Following up his “Earth Has Doors” EP, the full-length is a nice departure from his band’s psychedelic […]
Oh Boy Les Mecs – the post-Twilight Sleep adventures of collaborators Tracy Marcellino and Hanford Pittman – sets its sights on altitudes the duo’s dark electro-pop never reached. Beat-laden synths and arching (and for Marcellino, stronger) vocals conspire with rich lyrics to give Oh Boy Les Mecs – French slang for “oh boy you guys” […]
About the time Redd Kross busted into the 20-year-old nugget “Lady in the Front Row” on Tuesday night, a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled the Southland. Nobody in the sold-out Roxy Theatre noticed, especially the sweat-drenched denizens of the mosh pit, a multi-generational gang who were banging bodies to a band well into their fourth decade. Whether […]
Stars, “Backlines” – Stars offers the third track off their forthcoming album “The North” (due out Sept. 4 via ATO Records) and it’s more pop-rock than the electro-rock “The Theory of Relativity” or the shimmering “Hold On to Love When You Get It and Let Go When You Give It.” Amy Milan’s vocals serve as […]
A party clown dressed as a human piñata stars in the Jessica Paliza’s video for “Give It Away,” a song off Andrew Bird ’s recent album “Break It Yourself.” The storyline casts the title of a song in a profound light: We watch kids at a birthday party experience a range of emotions as their […]
Wednesday’s world: ‣ Which hip-hop show is for you: Pitbull at the Gibson Amphitheatre, or Nicki Minaj at the Nokia Theatre? ‣ Singer, songwriter and composer Michael Andrews, his continues his collaborative “Open Mike Andrews” residency at the Bootleg Bar, with Daedelus kicking the evening off. Guesting with Andrews tonight: Priscilla Ahn. ‣ Langhorne Slim […]
