Los Angeles – Shannon and the Clam’s record release show on Wednesday night at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater was a bit of a West Coast punk rock extravaganza. While the theater is most well-known for hosting larger indie-rock shows and even the occasional mainstream concert, it was a down-and-dirty night of DIY retro-style garage-punk
San Francisco – As one of the first pioneers of the recently popularized genre of chillwave, Alan Palomo’s Neon Indian has been a steady source of entertainment, mixing glitchy electronic beats with catchy hooks and airy, heavily reverberated vocals. Neon Indian’s next LP VEGA INTL. Night School—released next month via Mom + Pop—is perhaps his
Los Angeles – Willis Earl Beal approaches his live show as a phantom might. Dressed all in black, with his eyes masked and a black cape slung over him emblazoned with a dead-looking smiley face, the logo from his 2013 album Nobody Knows. Beal clearly doesn’t try to make the audience feel comfortable. He actually
Chicago – Dillon Hodges – aka firekid - is bringing a modern twist to bluegrass, country, and Americana, mixing in pop and indie rock with hints of hip-hop and electronica, and even chiptune with help from an old Nintendo Game Boy. His self-titled debut album firekid experiments with a genres that haven’t seen much change, while still keeping much of his
Los Angeles – Up until about the mid-2000’s, bands that fell under the categorization of “indie pop” typically had to spend years on the road while releasing barely-noticed records in hopes that eventually they would be able to quit their day jobs and make music their full-time gig. The internet changed all that, with blogs
New York – LA rock quartet Dawes’ new video for the title track of their current album, All Your Favorite Bands, has been released. The highly creative and amusing clip for the new single, directed by Kevin Hayes, premiered yesterday and features footage of many of the band’s musician friends lip synching to the song and ends sweetly with
Los Angeles – While Béatrice Martin, AKA Cœur de Pirate has toured the United States several times in the past, this year’s set of American dates are the most likely to bear the most impressive results. Fresh on the heals of her third full-length release, Roses, the French-Canadian singer-songwriter for the first time is offering some English
Los Angeles – In the wake of More Than Any Other Day’s enormous splash, critics could not help themselves but reference groups like Television or The Talking Heads when describing the wiry post-punk heard throughout Ought’s debut release. This opinion is backed up with some decent arguments; the sing/speaking bears a passing resemblance to David
San Francisco – “And now, it’s show time.” So begins the full-length commercial debut from Skylar Spence, Prom King: an eleven-track nu-disco opus from 22-year-old wunderkind Ryan DeRobertis. Some may remember DeRobertis from his days as a producer of “vaporwave” music (a genre of electronica that relies heavily on samples that have been drastically slowed-down)
Chicago – The Windy City was invaded by Brits and New Englanders, and it was glorious! We gladly surrendered to the rock of Highly Suspect and The Struts. Brooklyn based, Massachusetts born and bred trio Highly Suspect and English foursome The Struts played not one, but two, sold-out shows at Lincoln Hall. Excited fans packed