Whispertown, the songwriting vehicle for Morgan Nadler that was originally known as Whispertown2000 and then The Whispertown 2000, has emerged with new music for the first time since 2009’s “Done With Love” EP. And it’s different. On her 2008 album “Swim,” released via Acony Records (the imprint helmed by Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings), Nagler […]
London quintet Bombay Bicycle Club has always straddled the sound of folk and rock, but their latest record “A Different Kind of Fix” (out now A&M/Octone Records) showcases yet another different movement in their sound. With the help of producers Jim Abbiss and Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, M.I.A.), Bombay Bicycle Club has expanded their […]
Our cups overfloweth: ‣ His new album “A Wasteland Companion” en route in April, M. Ward plays at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. [That’s his new video for “The First time I Ran Away,” above.] ‣ Gotye, his album “Making Mirrors” out this week, plays the sold-out El Rey Theatre, joined by Kimbra, who’s featured on the […]
Saint Motel is good at cinema. Oh, the L.A. quartet can write pop hooks too, but as the nifty collage of 16mm film, video and iPhone images in the band’s new video for “At Least I Have Nothing” reminds, the foursome of A/J Jackson, Aaron Sharp, Greg Erwin and Dak first came together in film […]
No sooner had Matt Pryor finished a victory lap behind the Get Up Kids’ comeback album, last year’s “There Are Rules,” than he released his second solo album. “May Day” is a folksy tour through the heart and mind of the beloved Kansan, revealing him as somebody who still believes in the game of love […]
Evan Voytas’ sound – fizzy bursts of R&B and funk beneath a keening falsetto – has been a long time in the making. In the four-plus years since he moved to L.A., the multi-instrumentalist has performed with rising stars from both the indie and mainstream realm. But if you were go to back in time […]
Lost (at least for a second) in all the recent clamor about whether that “Video Games” girl is the genuine item was the fact that Sharon Van Etten’s new album is on the horizon. “Tramp” is out next week (on Jagjaguwar), and the New York songstress’s third album finds her both tying her demons into […]
Gary Clark Jr. is no overnight sensation, but he’s certainly turning out to be sensational. Just shy of his 28th birthday, the blues revivalist has earned comparisons to Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan as his career has been incubated by key players in the Austin music scene. Last year he toured with Eric Clapton, […]
Superhumanoids continue to tease. In 2011, the L.A. dream-poppers dropped two appetizers, “Malta” and “Mikelah,” as they continued work on their full-length album (now done, we hear), and this morning the band anchored by Cameron Parkins, Sarah Chernoff and Max St. John unveiled another single, “Geri,” as they announced spring touring plans with Class Actress, […]
“Icebreaker,” the debut album by L.A. quartet WALK, is just that: an entreé to the kaleidoscopic songwriting explorations of Tim Jordan and bandmates Daniel Apodaca, Chris Kerrigan and Matt Kelly. It’s a delirious collision of psychedelia and shoegaze and more – the Flaming Lips meet Swervedriver, Dinosaur Jr. meets Built to Spill, to throw around […]
