New Music
Just last summer local hard rock outfit Ramonda Hammer debuted their full-length record I Never Wanted Company, and the band moved swiftly back into the studio (figuratively or otherwise) to put together a new EP, expected to drop later this year. “Big Hands,” produced by Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties, will appear on the new […]
MoreButtertones have shared a new video for one of their latest songs, “Denial You Win Again.” The post-punk ballad is one of 10 tracks featured on the Buttertones’ new album, ‘Jazzhound’. It sounds like something you would hear Morrissey serenade with sexy sadness. There is a charming romanticism in the song, similar to the video […]
MoreMexican singer-songwritter and producer Vanessa Zamora has released a psychedelic new single, “Psilocibina,” that not only encapsulates the idea uninhabited bliss, but does so in spectacular fashion with a rather creative music video to accompany it. In a time where it seems hard to find joy, Zamora reminds us that sometimes a shift in perspective, […]
MoreNobody makes getting high sound lovelier, than L.A.’s Rachel Goodrich. Keeping those lovely, stoney vibes rolling like the perfect joint on a Sunday morning, Goodrich has delivered a video for her previously released track “The High Song.” Dubbed a “quarantine video,” the visual gets its magic with a little help from Goodrich’s friends: dummer, Geneva […]
MoreMexican-American queer punk icon Alice Bag continues to make headlines after nearly forty years active in the East LA community. She was an elementary school teacher before she dabbled in music with several bands, though none more important than the Bags; the group played a pivotal role as part of the local first-wave punk scene […]
MoreFor anyone who was concerned that the stay-at-home order would dampen the sound of summer, worry no more. The Brazil-born, LA-based musician Das Kope has been steadily releasing sunny shoegaze singles since 2018; his contributions on guitar alone are entrancing. Now we finally see the release of his debut full-length album, Where I Live, a […]
MoreFawns of Love, the Bakersfield post-punk duo, have shared another Part Time Punks Session: Permanent Revisited 12” EP (Obeah Records), this time with a reworked version of their song “Someday.” The new versions of their Permanent EP tracks – inspired by Cocteau Twins and New Order – were created for Michael Stock’s Part Time Punks radio show […]
MoreThe rising queen of daydream-pop, Hazel English, has parted our cloudy skies with the new sun-kissed track “Five and Dime” from her upcoming album “Wake UP!” arriving April 24th via Polyvinyl / Marathon. “Five and Dime” features English’s signature retro soundscape, paired with a wistful surf-rock tempo that radiates 1960s nostalgia. The anthemic hook drum […]
MoreLos Angeles singer/songwriter frogi has a new song titled “til i turn blue,” a haunting piano ballad that sees the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter expanding the creative world she initially started with her debut introvert EP. “We’re going through a really strange time right now and I hope this song can help a tiny bit,” shares […]
MoreDominican/Mexican-American artist Ambar Lucid has finally shared her debut album Garden of Lucid, an enchanted diary of personal triumph and strife that sees the singer/songwriter carving out her own niche. Mixing her Latin roots with an eclectic mix of genre-bending, Lucid has established herself as the burgeoning and unsilenced voice of a new generation of […]
MoreWith endless idle time, it can feel like we’re spending too much time with our thoughts and emotions. There could not have been a better time for Phoebe Bridgers to announce her sophomore album, Punisher, due out June 19th on Dead Oceans. The album announcement was accompanied by the release of a second single from […]
MoreAlison Mosshart, the fervent rockstar and one-half of The Kills has shared her solo debut with the music video for “Rise,” an enigmatic and uplifting anthem that is all hot fire and drudged-up passion. The film, shot in a home-video style, features Mosshart howling into the camera, spliced between shots of hot-rods and hydraulic gifted […]
MoreC. Shirock is the LA-based, profoundly vulnerable artist who finds strength in the rough. With intellectual undertones and glistening musicality, his new single ‘All We Have Is This Moment’ could not be more appropriate and soulfully healing than right now. The track opens in a chant, his ethereal vocals restrained in the melody until, almost […]
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