Los Angeles – Sitting around a pizza joint on the Sunset Strip, The Last Internationale—comprised of Edgey, Delila Paz and Fernando Silva—talk blues, the end of capitalism, music today and making their next album with Brendan Benson. Katie Booth: Where do you get ‘New York, I Do Mind Dying’ and what does that mean? Delila
Los Angeles – The new band Skaters, from New York City, actually doesn’t skate. “We’re musicians first and we don’t [want] to break our wrists,” lead singer Michael Ian Cummings told a Boston music blog earlier this year. “We chose the name because it reminded us of our youth.” Sitting around a little end table
Los Angeles – It’s woodsy and a little sad. Like listening to years, images of country and sea, and her home on the other side of the world (New Zealand). Tiny Ruins performance on Saturday consisted of a lone girl, her guitar and a very tiny space. “I usually play with a band,” said Hollie
Los Angeles – “Take off your clothes.” Jake Bugg, 19, looked up from his guitar and smiled, a little embarrassed at the audience outburst, and after a beat kept singing. It was one of four times he smiled during his sold-out show at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood. He looks 12. And he kind of
Los Angeles – It’s that quickening, climactic moment in every action adventure movie ever made. When the hero of the story is about to enter the arena of whatever he’s trying to accomplish, and everything hangs in the balance. And then—a sweeping, epic song comes on. A lofty, aspirational, drum beat to push him to
Los Angeles – The ‘90s are back. If a trip to Urban Outfitters doesn’t convince you, this album will. Haim (pronounced High-im) is comprised of sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim, 27, 24 and 21 respectively, and drummer Dash Hutton, and you’ve probably heard whisperings of them for at least a few months now. Already well-known
Los Angeles – At a pizza joint Friday night on the Sunset Strip, The Last Internationale (a New York band comprised of Delila Paz, Edgey and Fernando Silva) told BestNewBands.com that the discovery of Woody Guthrie and Howlin’ Wolf six years ago “became [their] religion.” After their Viper Room set two hours later, it became