[Covers that have recently come across our radar…] Tokyo Police Club, “Kim & Jessie” ft. Jamie Jackson (of Hot As Sun) (M83 cover) – Tokyo Police Club recently partnered up with Polaroid for a project titled “10 Songs, 10 hours, 10 days, 10 years” where they cover a single from the last 10 years in […]
The Polyamorous Affair’s sultry, subversive electro was made for dark places. And the Berlin-based duo of Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie, who not so long ago called L.A. home, go there in the video for “Fantasy,” which transfers the notion of appetite to someplace a little bit grisly. The single comes from 2010’s synth-laden “Strange […]
SecondTuesday – Buzz Bands LA’s monthly songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe – takes a turn for the eclectic in October. On the agenda: sibling rivalry, a birthday celebration, a beer crawl and plenty of good tunes for a good cause. Headlining on Oct. 11 will be Joey and Andy Siara of the Henry Clay […]
Hot As Sun’s blissed-out music exists only in small quantities so far – their four-song EP released last November – but the electro-popgazers anchored by Jamie Jackson and Deborah Stoll have more songs in the works. And their recent trip to New York to perform amid glitter and go-go dancers at artist Peter Tunney’s gallery […]
Some may know Marchelle Bradanini as the “Pony” half of international DJ duo Pony vs. Tiger (with the other half being Natasha “Tiger” Noramly), who spins everything from Hot Chip to Os Mutantes to Orange Juice. However, Bradanini’s solo moniker Pony Boy zooms in on a sound that she considers “junkyard country music.” With smokey […]
Quite a Thursday night ahead: ‣ A.A. Bondy headlines the Bootleg Theater behind his new album “Believers.” [See why we believed.] Nik Freitas, whose new album “Saturday Night Underwater” came out this summer, opens. ‣ Gillian Welch (pictured) headlines the Music Box behind the new album she made with Dave Rawlings, “The Harrow & the […]
With her sultry flair that isn’t far from the smooth sounds that make both Sade and Billie Holiday so appealing, songstress Hindi Zahra has been gaining fans among critics – acquiring the Prix Constantin (France’s Mercury Prize) in 2010 – and listeners of folk, jazz and soul since her self-titled EP in 2009. Zahra now […]
Christian Velky started Good Luck Bear as a solo project about five years ago, but his melody-rich pop seemed to find its full sound when Hoyt Adams and Leonard Tucker joined the lineup. The trio now boasts an album titled “The Nearest Faraway Place,” which includes indie rock tunes influenced by everything form surf-pop to […]
The New Division’s debut album “Shadows” (out this week) has its share of dark places, some more menacing than others, and all of which fly the black flags planted long ago by the likes of Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and Gary Numan. The Riverside quartet of John Kunkel, Michael Janz, Brock Woolsey and Mark Michalski arrived […]
The beautifully haunting harmonies of the Chapin Sisters (who now consist of Lily and Abigail Chapin) first floated onto the scene when they released their “Oh, Hear the Wind Blow” EP and their debut full-length “Two” shortly after during 2010. They’ve taken some time off after the departure of member (and half-sister) Jessica Craven. However, […]