Lisa Papineau, who has worked with bands such as Air and M83, has new pieces of worldly soft rock to share; she has a live show planned at Zebulon on February 24. She is known to travel frequently, calling Vermont, California and France all her homes. Her new album, Oh Dead On Oh Love, comes out […]

Designer idolatry is a real phenomenon. There are brands for everything, resulting in entire Instagram profiles constructed as a monument to Adidas or Louis Vuitton. Local musician Rachel Goodrich spins a tale on her new single “Gucci” using this thread of an idea, turning common label-flaunting into an exercise of self-love. See her perform at […]

Argentinian/American electro pop artist and multi-instrumentalist Crow has released her much-anticipated debut single “Go.” Within the first few seconds it’s clear that she is a creative powerhouse. She flexes her vocal range á la Lorde over a haunting, layered track that includes sultry bass lines punctuated by tribal sounds and resounding drums. But the music […]

The tour and swooning over High As Hope has yet to even begin to subside and Florence + the Machine have already released two new songs amidst the fervor with “Moderation” and “Haunted House.” A slight return to form with the cathedral-sized, baroque-meets-gothic sound of her first two albums, “Moderation” is the kind of thundering, concussively impassioned […]

Almost a year after their cantankerous album Brain Telephone, L.A. based Frankie and the Witch Fingers are back with their newest single and video “Pleasure.” The single will be released as a 7” with an epic demo of their track “Realization” on the B-side. Purchase the 7” Green Way Records. The trippy lo-fi visuals for the […]

Montréal-based Anemone are coming back to Los Angeles for a headline show at Bootleg Theater on February 26. This will be one of four album release shows to celebrate their debut album Beat My Distance, set to be released on February 15th (Luminelle Recordings). The congruous album is a hazy, psych-pop soundtrack perfect for the […]

Local producer Grey Goon is breaking out of his shell with the release of a new original track today. He has been the backbone of Oddnesse alongside Rebeca Arango for the past couple of years, and he has also produced for other artists like Trippie Redd, DJ Khaled, and Lauren Ruth Ward, just to name […]

L.A.-based dream pop duo RKCB have released the latest single off their upcoming Shores EP in the form of the melancholic “Till We’re In The Sea.” A pulsating ballad that takes one of the bigger crisis of our time in climate-change and attempts to peer into it from a fresh perspective—one that is more honed in on […]

Nick Cave has been taking questions from fans via the Red Hand Files, and last October he published a submission from someone who had been dealing with many deaths in their life. The question, like most on the site, was spiritual in nature, and Cave began his answer with wisdom that could apply to anyone’s […]

Experimental electronic artist Bayonne (aka Roger Sellers) just announced a North American headline tour with a Los Angeles stop at The Echo! Catch Bayonne live at The Echo on May 7! Bayonne is touring in support of his sophomore album Drastic Measures out Feb. 22. The album is said to be a “lesson in loop […]

Virulently-glazed synths and a bubbly disco thrill abound on Broods‘ new single “Hospitalized,” the latest single from their upcoming third album Don’t Feed The Pop Monster. Like previous singles “Everything Goes (Wow)” and “Peach,” sibling Georgia and Caleb Knott’s latest entry is a sun-burnt extravaganza of synthesizer-laden glitter work. There’s a lot to love on “Hospitalized,” […]

Shoegaze meets psychedelic on Feels’ new single; it is a catchy hybrid of a song, reminiscent of both Blondie and The Kinks. With a title like “Awful Need,” it is surprisingly aloof, following the band’s previous grunge release, “Car.” Both new singles will appear on the local quartet’s forthcoming album, Post Earth, due out on […]

This one goes out to all the androids out there. Long Beach native Anthony Pedroza began alt-rock four-piece Fellow Robot with a plan—namely, their trilogy of concept albums called The Robot’s Guide to Music. The first volume came out last summer and the second is due in April. The new edition will include the new […]

Ex Hex are back with a new album and are laying down some tour dates with a Los Angeles performance at the Teragram Ballroom on April 25. The Washington, D.C. trio are gearing up to release their second album It’s Real, coming March 22 of Merge Records. You can pre-order it today on CD, LP, and magenta […]

L.A. favorite, Nick Waterhouse has announced a local date at The Regent in Downtown Los Angeles for April 26. The throwback crooner is performing in support of his newly announced self-titled album set for March 8th release via Innovative Leisure. the new album was recorded at LA’s legendary Electro-Vox Recorders, and co-produced with Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, […]

Brooklyn duo Savoir Adore, the brainchild of Paul Hammer and Laura Zettler, has released the first part of what will be a two-part album entitled Full Bloom. FIlled to the brim with dreamy rock and slick synth textures, the six songs on the release dip in and out of heady sonics and intimately sparse soundscapes. The […]

Dark electronic duo Rituals of Mine is fresh off a tour with Garbage and they have immediately hit the pavement since settling back in. They are in the middle of writing a sophomore LP to follow up their acclaimed debut, Devoted, and they have no plans to stop performing. New dates in San Francisco and […]

Fawns of Love, the creation of wife-husband duo Jenny and Joeseph Andreotti, are gearing up to release their second full-length album and have shared the sleek, electronica buzzing track “Mournful Eyes” in anticipation of it. An ode to the sense of being adrift and thick alienation that surrounds them, the song is bathed in all manner […]

Noelle Scaggs, known best as a member of Fitz and the Tantrums, has just announced her solo project with the brand new single, “Great For You.” It comes as the first of many songs that Scaggs has been working on around the Tantrums busy schedule. “Great For You” is an anthem featuring the pleading falsetto […]

Almost exactly a year later, L.A. Witch, comprised of Irita Pai, Ellie English, and Sade Sanchez, has returned with their latest five-track EP Octubre out on November 2, 2018 via Suicide Squeeze. Coming out of a blur of long Southern Californian nights, the band’s latest is darker, grimier, and more complex than ever. With themes […]