Confidence Man dropped a Christmas banger last week, called “Santa’s Comin Down the Chimney.” It has a late-‘90s electro-techno thing going, like Dopplereffekt or Miss Kittin and the Hacker, which is really weird for a Christmas song and something that I, a person who is extremely picky about holiday tunes, can appreciate. If you were … Continue reading A Christmas Banger from Confidence Man and More of What You Heard at Splash! Sundays→
I was on the treadmill the first time I listened to 3 AM (La La La), the latest album from Confidence Man, walking at 3.5 miles an hour, a brisk pace, but not quite enough to keep up with the strobelight pulse of songs like “I Can’t Lose You” and “Control.” Maybe I could have … Continue reading On 3 AM (La La La), Confidence Man Offers a ’90s Throwback With a Twist→
The urgency in “Cowboy in a Ghost Town” is potent. A galloping beat drives the song and the whip-slap sound of the snare comes in as SAADI sings, “You are a cowboy in a ghost town/You leave a dark legacy.” When I first heard the song, from the L.A.-based singer/multi-instrumentalist’s recently released sophomore album, Birds … Continue reading On Birds of Paradise, SAADI Reflects on Human Nature and Digital Lives→
The only time I’ve seen Fever Ray live was at Coachella in 2010 and, even then, I only caught part of their set sometime on the first night of the festival after I had already decided that I was over Coachella and the only thing that might ever get me back is The Smiths reunion … Continue reading Fever Ray Refreshes Classics and More on The Year of the Radical Romantics→
Do you ever get the feeling that your friends can read your mind? The other day, out of nowhere, I thought of Anoraak, the French musician/producer, whose tunes have turned up a bunch in my sets over the years. (Most frequently, “Gang,” a Disco Not Disco-style jam that I played often at The Lash coming … Continue reading Anoraak, Pachyman, Stereolab and More New Music→
Indie music and alt culture blog from Los Angeles. By Liz O.
