“The rumors are true,” Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, told Jason Bentley during an interview as part of KCRW’s Berkeley Street Sessions taping in Santa Monica on Monday night. Confirming a small segment of her recent SPIN cover story in person, she proudly admitted that she and David Byrne have been working on an album […]
First, if you were an album getting played tonight, which one would you be? ‣ In advance of the annual Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven cookout in Pioneertown this weekend, David Lowery brings both of his bands to the Satellite with a special agenda: Cracker will be performing its 1993 album “Kerosene Hat,” and Camper Van Beethoven […]
Cliff Magreta has been waiting for the clock to strike 12 for several years now –he began writing tunes as Minutes til Midnight around 2006 after the Shore, for whom he played bass, saw their record deal wash ashore. Since then, his exploits have included songwriting with other artists (he was a co-writer on Paul […]
As we indicated back in June, melancholic popgazers Mezzanine Owls are not going quietly into the night. The fractured L.A. quartet, dormant almost three years now, is releasing a couple of archival recordings (made in August 2008) from bassist Dan Horne’s Lone Palm Studio – “Obstacles” and “Tethered to a Fountain” – as a limited-edition […]
When the Big Pink blasted onto the scene in 2009 with the industrial-strength electro on “A Brief History of Love,” a whole bunch of shoegazer hearts fell like “Dominos.” It’s taken a while, but the U.K. duo of Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell are returning with a second album, “Future This,” which will come out […]
As electro-indie pop outfit Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. walked out on stage Friday at a sold-out Troubadour, Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott toted their Detroit pride with their jackets and worked the crowd into a dancing frenzy from the moment they started their sports-game like intro. Working the stage as if they had a catalog […]
With her recent solo releases and collaborations, Steph Thompson, aka Steffaloo, has emerged as the latest in a (chill) wave of vocalists whose featherweight cooing seems an exercise in seduction by reverb. Her latest outing in Toy Camera sees her teaming up with Drew Harris of Germany Germany, maker of Postal Service-inspired pop. The glitchy […]
The downloads have spoken – or, at least, the fans who clicked “download” have. Four L.A.-area artists – alternative rockers Starving for Gravity, singer-composer Lucas Thanos and songstresses Stacy Clark and Marina V have advanced to the semifinals of the Pop Up Live program, a project from SPIN, the snack company popchips and Reverbnation to […]
Your picks for Tuesday: ‣ Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe goes off with Nik Freitas, the Sister Ruby Band, Ben Heywood of Summer Darling and Adeline & the Philistines. The festivities start at 9; details here. ‣ We Are Augustines, the new project from Pela’s Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson […]
When we first heard the first single from Connecticut trio the Stepkids, their soul-drenched psychedelia, which blurs the lines between past, present and future, left us craving more. Come Sept. 27, their self-titled debut will finally be available via Stones Throw, a label already home to nostalgic provocateurs such as Aloe Blacc, Mayer Hawthorne and […]