Welcome to the beginning of your week: ‣ If it’s the first Monday of the month, it must be time for new residencies to kick off. Here’s a quick rundown of the highlights: The dancetastic Yellow Alex & the Feelings play the Satellite, with Nightmare & the Cat and Mirror Talk opening. It figures to […]
Folk singer-songwriter Simone White has always had a keen sense of storytelling. Her folk/country-tinged 2007 debut, “I Am the Man” and 2009’s quiet offering “Yakiimo” gently pierced listeners with a soft synthesis of intimacy and intelligence. But come May 7, the White will no longer be defined by only her wispy vocals, when “Silver Silver” […]
Art-pop ensemble Fol Chen’s second album for Asthmatic Kitty, “Part II: The New December,” will be out July 6, and frontman Adam Goldman (who goes by Samuel Bing in this outfit) and mates have brought along some travelers for this trip into their glitchy sonic universe. Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill of Liars (with whom […]
Owing to their somewhat cut-and-paste aesthetic, I thought a lot of the songs on Fol Chen’s debut “Part I: John Shade Your Fortune’s Made” already sounded like remixes. But apparently there is more room to fidget in the L.A. avant-poppers’ sonic world. Now Fol Chen is releasing the super-single “The Longer U Wait” – a […]
