The Cranberries Something Else BMG Chokers. Strategically ripped jeans. Remembering to feed your Tamagotchi before leaving the house. The 90s are back, and now, so are The Cranberries. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the band, The Cranberries are set to release Something [...]
Cold War Kids L.A. Divine Capital Records Indie rockers Cold War Kids have released their first album in three years, titled L.A. Divine. Inspired by the band’s hometown of Los Angeles, this fourteen track record is their first release for Capitol Records. “Love is Mystical” [...]
Depeche Mode Spirit Columbia Records Spirit is Depeche Mode’s 14th studio album, and couldn’t have come at a better time. Opening with the pointedly political “Going Backwards,” frontman Dave Gahan laments ‘We’re goin’ backwards/turnin’ back our history.’ Sung over an electro [...]
The Knitts Retreat Knitting Factory Records For those of us that have been going to see The Knitts’ live shows for years now, their debut album Retreat has been a long time coming. Over 6 long years. If you HAVE been seeing them in person during that time, some of the songs [...]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The Tourist CYHSY, Inc. Since their 2005 debut, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah haven’t had much to get excited about. They’ve gone through growing pains and the loss of band members, until the band truly was the sound of one hand clapping – that of lead [...]
Childish Gambino Awaken, My Love! Glassnote Entertainment Group When was the first time you discovered Donald Glover? Was it through his music as Childish Gambino? His standup? His writing on “30Rock?” Perhaps it was when he was an actor in “Community?” Or have you recently [...]
La Sera Queens EP Polyvinyl Records Somewhere in between touring in support of its album Music For Listening to Music To (which I reviewed just this past March HERE), La Sera found the time to record its latest EP, Queens. A longtime fan of Katy Goodman, I jumped at the chance [...]
Moving Units Damage With Care Metropolis Records Los Angeles-based group Moving Units have recently released their fourth album, Damage with Care via Metropolis Records (April 8, 2016). As with the previous three albums, you can expect Damage with Care to be just as [...]
La Sera Music For Listening To Music To Polyvinyl Records The influence of producer Ryan Adams is apparent in La Sera’s Music For Listening to Music To‘s thoughtful arrangement of the tracks, and somewhat alt-folk-country sound. The first single, “High Notes” shows [...]
Peppina @ Resident LA, Los Angeles February 18, 2016 Finnish songstress Peppina swung briefly through Los Angeles on her way back to her native Helsinki via Park City, Utah, Washington DC and New York City this week. All in all, she’s been in the States three weeks performing [...]
The Fratellis Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied Cooking Vinyl The Fratellis’ fourth album, Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied, is easily their best to date. Each song requires at least two listens – the first to take in the new sounds, fusion of instruments, and familiarly fun lyrics; and the second [...]
Patrick Watson Love Songs For Robots Domino Records I was first introduced to Patrick Watson in 2012, at Austin City Limits (ACL). I had never heard of him before seeing him on the lineup that year; he was seemingly as unknown as one can be, when appearing at a festival that [...]
Killawatt émigré Osiris Matthew Watt, widely known as Killawatt, shows the progression into a more mature artist with his debut album émigré. He is no longer simply putting out dubstep, but venturing into the realms of electronica, bass, and techno with his February 23 [...]
Twin Shadow Eclipse Warner Bros “That moment when something pure and constant is broken, where you’re filled with vulnerability, that moment is what I live for in art,” says George Lewis, Jr., aka Twin Shadow. “I’ve always chased that in my music, [...]
The Lookouts Spy Rock Road (And Other Stories) Don Giovanni Records Thirty years before anyone would ever even conceive of Green Day, three guys got together and The Lookouts were born. The California punk band released a remastered album March 10 titled Spy Rock Road (and [...]
How In 40 Minutes, Joshua Radin Just Ruined Every Man in The World’s Valentine’s Day Plans: An Interview With Joshua Radin Whoever said “romance is dead” has obviously never experienced Joshua Radin. Radin’s latest album Onward and Sideways, released in January on Glass Bead [...]
Sonny & The Sunsets Talent Night At The Ashram Polyvinyl Records If you didn’t know it, you would never guess San Francisco native Sonny Smith is nearing his mid-40s. Imaginative, quirky, and possessing the ability to spin stories akin to a young child full of wonder, this [...]
Prima Donna Nine Lives And Forty-Fives Alive Naturalsound Records Los Angeles foursome Prima Donna is back with an impressive 11-song studio album. Nine Lives and Forty-Fives features eight original songs, and three covers: “I’m On Fire” (Dwight Twilley), “Rock and Roll is [...]
Bob Dylan Shadows In The Night Columbia Records Shadows in the Night is Bob Dylan’s 36th studio album. It was released by Columbia Records on February 3, 2015 and contains 10 songs originally made famous by Frank Sinatra, though Dylan himself chose these songs in this [...]
