First they were Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head. Then Natalie Portman, the actress herself, got it into her head that having an electro-pop band named in her honor wasn’t such a good idea, so they became Brite Futures. And now Brite Futures have decided to call it quits. The Seattle-based party animals made the announcement on […]
If you think you’ve never heard of Brooklyn quartet Chappo, you’re probably wrong. Chances are you’ve heard their song “Come Home” in an iPod Touch commercial from two years ago. The track was originally off of their “Plastique Universe” EP, which was followed up by “Plastique Universe II: Pisces Princess” EP. After several short releases, […]
Chop Love Carry Fire – the triumvirate of singer-bassist Jeremy Toback (Brad), guitairst Joel Graves (Everest) and drummer Butch Norton (Eels) – carved out a slot in our music mixes last August with their self-titled debut EP. The song “Save” from that EP gets quite a video treatment from L.A.-based animation company Shipmate Title, which […]
They’ve played to crowds of 20,000 in their native South Africa, and this spring they hiked 19,341-foot Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of a charitable campaign to end violence against women and children in Africa. But conquering America has been a slow climb for the Parlotones, the Johannesburg quartet whose four albums are the stuff of […]
File under: This will more than suffice until we get the follow-up to “Get Color.” L.A.. noiseniks HEALTH today unveiled the first song from the soundtrack to the gritty video game “Max Payne 3,” and Rockstar Games (which released the title today) could hardly have recruited better composers to serenade the adventures of their violent […]
As frontman of the San Diego quintet Dynamite Walls, Tom Pritchard traded in radio-friendly rock that fell somewhere between the Strokes and U2. Some amount of label turmoil later, Dynamite Walls is no more, and Pritchard, now ensconced in L.A., has aligned with Jason Burkhart (most recently spotted with rapper Kenan Bell) as Western Scene. […]
Tuesday night in the city: ‣ Singer, multi-instrumentalist and looping wizard Emily Wells visits Largo behind her new album “Mama,” which was recorded on a horse ranch in Topanga. That’s her homemade video for “Passenger,” above. Appearing with her: The Portland Cello Project, whose own new album “Homage” features arrangements of hip-hop songs. No kidding: […]
“Four years. Never again!” Meiko says. Yes, it’s taken that much time for her sophomore album, “The Bright Side,” to arrive. The former Hotel Cafe waitress-turned-singing sensation was the first artist signed to then-booming MySpace Records back in the day, shooting up the songwriter charts on iTunes and finding her songs in hit TV shows. […]
So much talent, so little time. That’s kind of the story behind supergroup Digital Noise Academy, a long-in-the-works studio project helmed, more or less, by rocker/producer Ken Andrews (Failure, On, Year of the Rabbit). When Andrews first told me about DNA, it was late 2008, and he and his collaborators already had a substantial batch […]
The 2013 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival again will be a two-weekend affair – the doubleheader in the desert will go off April 12-14 and April 19-21, promoters announced today. Advance sale of passes for Coachella 2013 will go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday. This year, service fees are included in the quoted […]