Back in November, L.A. quartet Hands teased us with the single “Brave Motion,” and now the Philadelphia ex-pats have sent along another song off their forthcoming EP. The music made by Geoffrey Halliday, Ryan Sweeney, Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff is two-sided tropical pop – face up, you get frisky beats and skittering guitar lines; […]
[Shows to consider while waiting to hear Jason Bentley interview electro-pop sensation David Lynch this morning on KCRW (10:15 a.m.):] Tonight’s top outings: ‣ Olin & the Moon, their new album “Footsteps” getting them some deserved attention, continue their residency at the Echo with fine support from Wire in the Walls and Family of the […]
Tonight’s top 4 shows that won’t dent your holiday shopping budget (because they’re free): ‣ Tonight’s installment of Sweaters is local collective Black Iris’ holiday party, featuring the Dead Trees (pictured; they just released a 7-inch on the collective’s White Iris imprint) and El Sportivo, the side project of Foreign Born/Fool’s Gold guitar god Lewis […]
The new music made by the hands of Hands – the L.A. quartet of Geoffrey Halliday, Ryan Sweeney, Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff – feels more like a cumulation (rather than derivation) of the a lot of the last decade’s indie-rock. Synths and samples do battle with insistent beats and tricky polyrhythms, with Halliday’s tenor […]
Top 3 local shows on a good night for them: ‣ If you liked their album “Terrible Town” [and we did], you’re going to like Olin and the Moon’s follow-up “Footsteps” even more. The Idaho-bred, L.A.-based purveyors of sweet Americana have a new album coming in the new year, and the quintet will be playing […]
