Who Needs You which will see a September 10th release through East End/Canvasback Music, will be the second EP by the Chicago, IL-based quintet, the Orwells. EP title track, Who Needs You was produced by TV on […]
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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 and backed […]
Originally hailing from Australia’s Blue Mountains, the quartet of Cloud Control, consisting of Alistair Wright, Heidi Leffner, Ulrich Leffner, and Jermey Kelshaw, relocated to the UK. The band’s critically applauded debut effort, Bliss Release was psychedelic and […]
Lenses, the sophomore effort from the Los Angeles, CA-based duo of Soft Metals is an album of material that exudes an urgent, sweaty and carnal sensuality – in fact, “Tell Me” the latest single from […]
Claiming the likes of Ornette Coleman and Merle Haggard as his influences, raised in Atlanta, GA and now based in Los Angeles, CA, singer/songwriter Charlie Greene has a rather interesting story – he’s the son […]
The Vim Dicta at Piano’s 6/24/13
As you can imagine, I’m still catching up on tons of posts and photos from a very busy summer worth of concerts and festivals across the best city for live music in the entire country, […]
Moderat is the collaboration between two of Berlin, Germany’s most innovative electronic music artists Apparat (a.k.a. Sascha Ring) and Modeselektor (a.k.a. Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary). And as a unit, the trio has managed to […]
“The Warden” is the first single off the Los Angeles, CA -based singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe’s third, full-length studio album, Pain Is Beauty which will see a September 3rd release through Sargent House Records. The material on the […]
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 […]
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 […]