Video: CocoRosie, ‘We Are On Fire’
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Sisters Bianca “Coco” and Sierra “Rosie” Casady, aka experimental freak-folk and hip-hop duo CocoRosie, haven’t released new music in two years, but they’ve been plenty busy boosting their resumes again since 2010’s “Grey Oceans.” In addition to touring, Sierra produced the skeleton for an industrial opera and Bianca developed a script for her own ballet, […]
Download: Japandroids, ‘The House That Heaven Built’
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Sure enough, Japandroids’ new album “Celebration Rock” is every bit as good those bazillion online reviews say it is. Best new music, best new variation of old music, best reason to break things – the latest blast from Canadian duo Brian King and David Prowse is 35 minutes of blood, sweat, cheers and “whoa-oh” choruses […]
Ears Wide Open: IAMEVE
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IAMEVE is not a newbie, but the new incarnation of Tiff Randol, the New York-bred, L.A.-based singer-songwriter whose pop confections historically have come with the piquant aftertaste of perspicacity. Adopting a new personality as Eve Ami, Randol is a quarter of the way through releasing a new album, “The Everything Nothing” – she’s doing so […]
Marilyn Manson to headline Sunset Strip Music Fest?
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Marilyn Manson will headline this year’s Sunset Strip Music Festival, according to sources in West Hollywood environs. If it’s true, the rocker – who in May released his latest album “Born Villain” – would become the latest in a line of heavy hitters SSMF has brought to the stage since the festival took to the […]
IO Echo’s ‘Ministry of Love’ due Sept. 11 on IAMSOUND; get a new ‘When the Lillies Die’
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IO Echo – the long-incubating project of Ioanna Gika and Leopold Ross, who first burst onto the L.A. scene in 2007 – will release its debut album “Ministry of Love” on Sept. 11 via L.A.-based IAMSOUND Records. Long known for their mesmerizing mix of ’90s shoegazing and Gothic post-punk (they were first embraced by Indie […]
Glendale nightclub to rise from the ashes; Little Temple gets a makeover, renamed The Virgil
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The cozy Glendale nightclub formerly known as the Scene Bar (and then LaBrie’s) is poised to reopen under new ownership this month as Complex. And the venue will reboot in a big way – long-running electro collective Information Society is scheduled to headline Complex’s grand opening on July 3 (it will be their only U.S. […]
Ears Wide Open: Father Tiger
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The debut EP from L.A. duo Father Tiger rockets you back to the days of Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and OMD – bright, bouncy melodies that marry analog synths and robot beats and embrace the notion that any road to romance leads through the dancefloor. Collaborators Greg Delson and John Russell have gotten plenty of […]