Last night, Echo Park’s tastemaking venue, The Echo, was graced with an excellent show from Danish trio Baby in Vain. The small venue saw three great sets, with two opening sets from Annie Girl & the Flight and a wild show from Kim & the Created but it was the Copenhagen group that stole the
With their forthcoming album, Gone By the Dawn, the nostalgia minded triumvirate Shannon and the Clams have released a new video for “Point of Being Right”, the second single, after the somber ballad, “Corvette,” is straight off the new record being released on September 11th. Gone By the Dawn is the group’s fourth studio release,
Mac DeMarco is an amazing example of how a local artist can make it big. Hailing from Vancouver, Canada, DeMarco started in a group called Makeout Videotape. He went to create music with them until 2012, when he put out his first solo release, Rock and Roll Night Club, between working a variety of
Following their collaboration with Kandy on the big room house slammer “BOM BOM!” Retrohandz returns to Dim Mak to release a banging follow up in “Bruck Out.” Featuring vocals from reggae songstress Stush, “Bruck Out” commingles dancehall vibes with Retrohandz’s characteristic jungle terror sound without reproach, laying down a thumping break beat that’s backed by booming
After two albums and a stint scoring the soundtrack to Rockstar’s hit game Max Payne 3, LA based noisemakers HEALTH have returned with DEATH MAGIC, their first record in six years. In that gap, a lot has changed in music and, for HEALTH, the time off is immediately apparent. Gone are the pummeling, lo-fi drums
With the seventh annual Electric Zoo Festival right around the corner, we here at Monsters & Critics are getting massively excited. The party will be coming back bigger and better than ever to Randall’s Island in New York, bringing the biggest names in electronic music culture. Taking place on September 4th, 5th, and 6th, this
When I walked into Gary Richard’s dressing room, he is showing his friends his new track “Freak”, a slick House tune that sounded great within his Destructo set earlier at HARD Red Rocks. He thinks it could use some female vocals but I enjoyed how it sounded already as it is, Richards was excited for
From the outside, Lot 613 looks like another unassuming warehouse in the heart of the Downtown Los Angeles, but when you walk in, it feels as if you transported to a club reminiscent of the warehouse rave scene of old. The dark, intimate room was lit only with minimal bichromatic lights flashing to the
If you weren’t careful at this year’s HARD Summer Music Festival, located at the leviathan that is the Pomona Fairplex, then you probably missed a lot of cool stuff. Whether it was Jack Black dancing around onstage with Die Antwoord, Justin Bieber performing onstage with super duo Jack Ü or The Chemical Brothers blowing away
In the late 60’s and early 70’s, German musician’s looked for new sounds and a new style, abandoning the traditional structures of British Rock and American Blues in favor of repetitive drones, experimental textures and psychedelic jams. Catching on to these new sounds, the English speaking press dubbed the movement Krautrock. Unfortunately, the people that