Fatal Jamz get self-conscious millennials to dance at L.A.’s The Echo Vivian Chen August 8, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews “More reverb please.” Local dream pop band Sugarcube’s opening words essentially summed up the line-up last Friday night at L.A.’s The Echo. Starting the night off with their Archy Marshall-esque bar...
Cigarettes After Sex hurts, soothes, and loves on self-titled album Vivian Chen June 15, 2017 Album Review, Reviews Cigarettes After Sex’s music is reminiscent of slow dancing at two in the morning in your bedroom with the lights turned off. The softness of Greg Gonzalez’s voice and the lingering caress of the guitar’s...
Talking Please Help Me with Funeral Advantage’s Tyler Kershaw Ally Mason February 23, 2017 Album Preview, Interview, Previews After releasing an initial demo in 2013 and a few split 7”s (including one with labelmates Former Ghosts) Funeral Advantage's debut LP Body Is Dead (2015) and subsequent Body Is Dead (Demos) (2015) found its ...
Cigarettes After Sex to accompany Garbage at the Masonic Vivian Chen September 23, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, News, Previews Cigarettes after Sex, an ambient dream pop band from El Paso, Texas, is playing a show with headliner Garbage, at San Francisco's Masonic this Saturday, September 24th. In comparison to their concert counte...
BRONCHO deliver bold set at Teragram Ballroom Fiona Duerr June 15, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos After first stumbling upon BRONCHO a few months ago I was excited to see they would be on tour in my hometown. The Teragram Ballroom, located on the edge of downtown Los Angeles can be described as a more intim...
Savoir Adore and friends, says Paul Hammer, head out on tour Joanna Jiang March 26, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Sometime between Our Nature (2013) and "Lovers Wake," dream pop outfit Savoir Adore were put on hiatus by the media. Though we were unaware of the news then, it was shortly after their critically-acclaimed soph...
Mermaid Music Monday: Tei Shi enchants The Fillmore Emilie Dylewski October 6, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews With a dreamy half-hour set, Valerie Teicher, also known by her stage name Tei Shi (pronounced Tay-She), opened the stage Monday night at The Fillmore for British electropop band Years and Years. Tei Shi s...
Beach House deliver a bittersweet dose of melancholy with new record, Depression Cherry Nicholas Troughton August 29, 2015 Album Review Intimate, wistful, and ephemeral, Beach House's fifth studio album reminds me of the high school homecoming I never had. And, in a way, a homecoming is exactly what Depression Cherry is. Beginning with the...
Sucré’s latest: a conflicted but sweet experiment in synth, baroque pop Keaton Peters October 24, 2014 Album Review “Come on / come at me,” sings Stacy Dupree-King on “Young and Free” from her latest EP as Sucré. Loner, released last month via Red Velvet Records, is the follow-up to her debut LP, A Minor Bird ...
Cheerleader carry on in sunny dream state with new EP Kavitha George October 23, 2014 Album Review Looking for a weekend pick-me-up? Check out Cheerleader's latest EP, On Your Side, a sunny blend of pop and alternative rock. Each track balances whispery vocals with the textures of synthesized beats an...
British Isles band Joanna Gruesome kick off US tour in Oakland Penelope Leggett August 26, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos UK-based band, Joanna Gruesome -- yes, it is a play on Joanna Newsom -- have finally made it over to the United States, starting their US tour off with a sold-out show. The band played Oakland's premier punk v...
Retro-Sentimentality: Literature’s new release, Chorus Penelope Leggett August 12, 2014 Album Review Need music to accompany the dwindling days of summer? Self-proclaimed jangle pop band Literature's upbeat and catchy new album, Chorus, is a perfect soundtrack for these last few weeks before the new semeste...