Every time Busdriver makes an album, you feel like you’re in the movie “Speed” – the L.A. rapper can’t let up on the accelerator, things fly by and you’re left waiting for a big explosion. It’s doesn’t sound any different on “Beaus$Eros,” the veteran’s seventh album, due Feb. 14 via Fake Four Inc. The L.A. […]
“Paint a Rocket” is the new song from Pisces, the experimental folk-pop explorations of Happy Hollows frontwoman Sarah Negahdari. A shredder in her indie-rock trio, Negahdari takes on a whole new persona as Pisces. Both in her initial video “Voodoo” [see our post from October] and in “Paint a Rocket,” Pisces takes a spacious, dreamy […]
Disco is not dead, as Blake Robin, aka Baron von Luxxury, reminds us with his shimmering and witty synth-pop. As the newest addition to the Manimal Vinyl family, (a label that is home to bands with a darker edge – Warpaint, Sister Crayon, Bat For Lashes), Robin’s persona as Baron von Luxxury blissfully bumps into […]
‣ Arty electro-pop is the order of the night at the Bootleg Theater, where the dressy duo Hi Fashion headlines and the supporting set features Professor Possessor, a self-described “dark-wave/witch-pop” quartet featuring singer Jess from Big Moves. That’s Professor Possessor’s video for “Race With the Devil,” above.” ‣ At the Echo, it’s Dead Dawn, along […]
Olin & the Moon have brought back their “Beer and Bingo” Tuesday nights to the Echo this month, but there’s better news for fans of the sweet-soundin’, PBR-swillin’ folk-rock quintet: They have a new album written. Brothers David and Travis LaBrel, along with bandmates Marshall Vore, Brian McGinnis and Kyle Vicioso, are currently just looking […]
Partied out from the holidays? “Liberty St.,” the gorgeous meditation from Ben Heywood, Dan Rossiter and Summer Darling, will help you take inventory. The new tune from the indie-rockers whose self-titled 2010 album offered an uncompromising look at Heywood’s own battle to keep his life on the rails, is, he says, “dedicated to all our […]
Everybody aspires to be a “nice guy,” but if you’re a musician, it’s anathema to hear the phrase – the implication being that your personality outstrips your art or, worse, “nice” is merely artifice. So Chasing Kings prove as adept in the social graces as they are with their instruments. “Nice Guys,” the title track […]
Tuesdays shouldn’t be this much fun: ‣ L.A. sextet Bikos, who busted out last year with their exuberant album of spiky art-punk “Make Your Sound Sound,” play the Bootleg Bar as part of a great local bill that includes Lovers Drugs and Son Ark. [Get Bikos’ “You Want It” right here. And, for today only, […]
During the last year, Vinnie Ferra has been keeping busy by touring across the nation in support of his 2010 debut “Man Vs. Machine.” But after traversing the East Coast and opening for Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – and collecting some attention for the song “Bad for Business,” which appeared in MTV’s “The […]
When we last looked in on L.A. expatriates the Black Pine, principals Mitch Cichocki and Emma Kathan were in Florida embarking on a new band under a new name. That project “fell apart,” Kathan reports, so the husband-and-wife team packed up their instruments and their penchant for making mesmerizing, cinematic rock songs and relocated to […]