Vintage Gold: Small Faces – “Tin Soldier” – Classic Video Spearheaded by vivacious singer/guitarist Steve Marriott and bassist Ronnie Lane, along with keyboardist Ian McLagan and drummer Kenney Jones — Small Faces were a brilliant rock and roll band from London, England.  Their mod, r&b sound was fully fueled by Steve Marriott’s bluesy, soulful vocals and […]

  One of our Los Angeles post-punk favorites, Cold Showers have released a new music video title “BC.” The song’s taken from the band’s new album Love and Regret, released this past October by Dais. Directed by Brian Davila, with a cameo by Andrew King (Crystal Antlers), the video is an homage to films such […]

New Music Video – Local Natives – Breakers! We just caught the Local Natives for a surprise homecoming show at the Satellite this past October where they played a great selection of songs from their upcoming sophomore album,  Hummingbird. One song in particular that they performed live was, “Breakers.” Now the boys have released the official music video for this […]

Formed in L.A.’s golden years of hip-hop, J.J. Fad originally began as a six-piece female rap group. They slimmed down to three members after being plagued by management and financial issues, leaving MC J.B., Baby-D, and Sassy C with support by DJ Train. Discovered by Eazy-E, they released their 1987 hit single, “Supersonic” via Ruthless […]

A master of slide guitar, “Mississippi” Fred McDowell was the most influential American Hill country blues singer. Creatively, he had played slide with a pocket knife, a beef rib bone and then later switched to a glass slide for its clearer sound. Making music since the early 1900’s, the man projected a slick and steady groove you could […]

Psychedelic Aussies, Tame Impala have dropped a colorful and mind-bending new video for ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards’, the latest single from their critically-acclaimed sophomore album Lonerism. Created by animators (and musicians) Joe Pelling & Becky Sloan, it’s a hypercolor wave, a visual imprint of their sonic landscape, and totally Tame Impala. Tame Impala has a sold-out […]

While they’re baring the burden of Hurricane Sandy, our favorite New York psychedelic-garage-rockers, the Vandelles have shared a creepy new Halloween single. You can download their new single, You Turn Me for free via their Bandcamp. The song is a reverbed, wild cover from Beat Happening’s ’92 song (and self-titled album), You Turn Me On. The Vandelles do […]

Bringing forth that heavy stoner and sludge metal from the Pacific Northwest, Red Fang are kicking off their tour today in support of their solid album, Murder the Mountains. If you’re down with Sleep, Queens of the Stone Age or Mastodon — you don’t want to miss out on Red Fang’s upcoming show at the Troubadour this […]

Brooklyn trio, the Vandelles have released a flirty new video this morning for “Miles Away,” the second video from their new album, Strange Girls Don’t Cry. The video is a whimsical piece featuring a redheaded lolita dancing around in various outfits as she spends her day vinyl shopping, eating pizza and smoking. The video starts bright […]

For those of you that have yet to catch the XX touring in support of their new album, Coexist, you can at least get a bit of you XX fix with their new video for “Chained.” It’s the second single off Coexist and is directed by Young Replicant, made in conjunction with The Creators Project. The […]