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Video: Tennis, ‘Deep in the Woods’
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The new music video from Baltimore trio Tennis may give you the creeps as you see one of the sisters dragging a plastic bag that seems to be leaking blood, but it’s almost refreshing, considering the band’s obsession with sailing in the past. Although their seven-month expedition along the Atlantic coast yielded undeniably catchy pop […]

Download: George Sarah/Angela McCluskey, ‘Anna’
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George Sarah has a list of credits as long as the line at Wal Mart on Black Friday. Like a lot of songwriter-composers whose work is prominent in film and TV, he’s not a household name, except to the many household names with whom he has colalborated, and to the cognoscenti who’ve gained an appreciation […]

Allen Stone displays his savory soul at the Echo
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Blue-eyed soul singers have come and gone, from Hall and Oates in the ’80s to boy bands in the ’90s to the current crop of revivalists, all with different shades on the genre and all with varying shelf life. At a sold-out show at the Echo on Friday night, Allen Stone, the 24-year-old preacher’s son […]

Tonight in L.A.: The Kooks, Peter Murphy, Tennis, the Jealous Sound, Lana Del Rey, Shana Halligan, Jeffrey Lewis, Monte Mar, Meiko, Just an Animal
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What a Wednesday night you have in store: ‣ The Kooks play the first of two nights at the Music Box behind their new album “Junk of the Heart.” Yawn opens. ‣ Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge bring their co-headlining tour to Club Nokia. ‣ Resurgent L.A. quartet the Jealous Sound [see “Your Eyes […]

Video: Big Moves, ‘Inspiration as a Recurring Theme’
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Nobody in these parts quite sounds like Big Moves, the L.A. quintet that ties jazzy sophistication and punk energy into stylish knot and adorns it with a bow of Jess Imme’s powerful vocals. They set the bar high with their 2008 album “In the Beginning,” and their “Lanterns” EP earlier this year demonstrated that Imme, […]

Stream: The Jealous Sound, ‘Your Eyes Were Shining’
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More than eight years after their last proper release, the Jealous Sound is back. There’s probably a novel to be written about what transpired with the L.A. quartet between releasing their 2003 emo-pop masterpiece (yes, it’s that good) “Kill Them With Kindness” and their 2009 reunion to tour with Sunny Day Real Estate. But fast-forward […]

Download: Lost Lander, ‘Cold Feet’
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For those who closely follow the music scene in Portland, Ore., Matt Sheehy is not a new name. Some may know him as one half of the band Gravity and Henry while others may have seen him on stage with Kaki King or Ramona Falls. Sheehy has also released solo material before, but his new […]

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