I caught the extremely young, Los Angeles, CA-based trio of the Vim Dicta at a relatively early set at Piano’s on Monday night and I was impressed – they play with a confidence and assuredness […]
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The Leftover Cuties, a Los Angeles, CA-based quartet, will be releasing their sophomore effort The Spark and the Fire on July 23rd. Thanks in part to Shirli McAllen’s gorgeously silky voice, backed by a sound that employs the […]
Washed Out‘s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals […]
I caught the Los Angeles, CA-based trio the Vim Dicta at Piano’s on Monday night, and from this live footage that I shot, their sound owes a debt to Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin and the like […]
Album Review: Octo Octa’s Between Two Selves
Photo Credit: Brooke Bouldry Octo Octa Between Two Selves 100% Silk Records Release Date: May 28, 2013 Track Listing 1. Who I Will Become 2. Bad Blood 3. Please Don’t Leave 4. Come Closer […]
A Q&A with The Lonely Wild’s Andrew Carroll
The Los Angeles-based band, The Lonely Wild’s debut EP, Dead End landed at number 19 on this site’s Best of 2011 list. Through that debut, the band won quite a bit of attention throughout the blogosphere, and […]
The Dig’s Midnight Flowers was one of the prettier albums I had come across last year – the album landed at number 32 on this site’s Best of 2012 list, and it received tons of praise […]
A Q&A with Morningbell’s Eric Atria and Travis Atria
The Gainesville, FL-based quartet of Morningbell, which consists of brothers Eric and Travis Atria, Eric’s wife Stacie Thrushman-Atria and Chris Hilman has developed a reputation for one of the more prolific, and inventive and perhaps […]
The Los Angeles-based ZZ Ward got her start as a professional musician by playing in her father’s blues band in dive bars across Oregon when she was 12 – yes, that’s right, 12. Last year, […]
Brooklyn-based band Haerts’ first single “Wings,"which was produced by St. Lucia’s Jean-Philip Grobler has received a ton of love across the blogosphere, including this site; after all, perhaps thanks to Grobler, the track is a […]
Last year, Torche released the critically well received Harmonicraft and before they were about to embark on a national tour, they released a new single as part of the Volcom Entertainment Vinyl Club (VEVC), titled “Keep […]
Los Angeles-based label, 100% Silk Records will be releasing Octo Octa’s newest effort, Between Two Selves on May 28th. “Please Don’t Leave” is the latest single from his new effort, and of course, you’ll immediately notice that […]
The forthcoming Behold A Pale Horse will be Anna Rose’s sophomore effort, as well as the follow-up to her critically well-received debut, Nomad. i’ve heard a great deal of the songs off Pale Horse live, and the material reflects Mencken’s extraordinary […]
“Kulti” is the first single off Kairos: Chronos, the latest effort from French DJ, producer and electronica artist High Wolf, which Los Angeles-based label Not Not Fun will release on June 4th. Although the song employs […]
Stones Throw Records will be releasing Troubadour, the follow-up to the Stepkids’ breakout, self-titled debut later on this year – it’s slated for the fall. The trio was enlisted to take part in Red Bull’s new […]