Falling James

When Liz Pappademas made her debut in the local music scene in the early 2000s, she stood out from the horde of rock-star wannabes through the sheer force of he...

Kolars are an often-enchanting local duo in which Rob Kolar sings and plays guitar while Lauren Brown manipulates a drum set while simultaneously tap dancing at...

“I was dreaming in my dreaming … I awakened to the cry/that the people have the power to redeem the work of fools,” Patti Smith declared in “People Have the Pow...

Exuberant, poppy melodies burst everywhere from Beach Bunny’s new album, Honeymoon. Even as singer-guitarist Lili Trifilio mulls over bittersweet romantic feeli...

On Eleni Mandell’s 11th album, Wake Up Again (Yep Roc Records), the L.A. singer was inspired by her experiences teaching songwriting classes to women inmates at...

Retrovirus is the title of a 2013 live album by Lydia Lunch in which she revisits the scene of some of her bloodiest and noisiest crimes and/or greatest hits. I...

“Tell me what to do, and you’ll see me disappear … I am not your bitch,” singer-guitarist Jessica Boudreaux warns on “Can’t Tell Me No,” the title track of Summ...

Herman Dune is a project by David Ivar, a French-Swedish musician based in San Pedro. “I live the life of a raconteur,” he drawls amid the slide-guitar smears o...

“Your eyes changed my life, now they’re gone,” Livvy Bennett reveals on “Fury,” a new single by her band Mamalarky. “You’re the only one I let dom.” As she cont...