Lewis Pesacov — guitarist, songwriter, producer and composer — unveils his solo project Peel’d this weekend. The spectacular “What Nature Tells Me” has a message for all.
Buzzbands.LA revisits 2006 through a playlist, a good year for local flavor.
The first song from the new collaboration between Matthew Compton (Electric Guest) and Matt Popieluch (Big Search, Foreign Born) is the languid, keyboard-drenched “Palm Beach.”
Jimmy Vincent is recognized these days for his various acting gigs – he’s the guy with the falcon, for one – but back in the day he was an indie-rock explorer with a fetish for gorgeous, ambient drone. In the mid-Aughts, Vincent played in a duo, then a trio, called In Waves, whose goth-inspired compositions […]
As we found when he fronted the sorely missed quartet Foreign Born, Matt Popieluch has one of those voices that belongs in the jetstream. Or somewhere in the clouds, which is where you’ll find much of the solo material he makes as Big Search. The solo album from 2010, “Lay of the Land,” found Big […]
[With Fool’s Gold’s show last week still fresh in my mind, it seemed appropos to share this:] It’s unlikely (not to mention unfortunate) that we will ever hear from Foreign Born again. With Lewis Pesacov and Garrett Ray having a good time in Fool’s Gold, Matt Popieluch making sweet music as Big Search and Ariel […]
Cass McCombs’ drop-dead-beautiful 2008 album “Catacombs” embraced a welcome candor – intimate and open-hearted, his songs rode in on simple guitar chords and made themselves at home on his velvety vocals. Now the 33-year-old has prepared a follow-up, “Wit’s End,” his fifth album, due April 12 on Domino. Like on his previous record, McCombs worked […]
My iTunes library categorizes “Home” – the first single from Glasser’s forthcoming debut “Ring” – as “post pop.” Let’s hope it’s not post-anything. The warm beats, complex instrumentation and soaring vocals seem to immediately fulfill the promise of 2009’s EP “Apply,” which introduced one-woman orchestra Cameron Mesirow to the world. The album, out Sept. 28 […]
Everything about the two songs on Sweaters’ new 7-inch single is familiar – the chord progression that launches “Sky Mall, the piano-powered rock ’n’ soul of “Investigations.” But it’s the uninhibited manner in which the L.A. four-piece – Jordan Benik, Max Sokolinski, Jordan Harkins and Joel Isaac Black – inhabits its classic rock influences that […]
Lewis Pesacov just keeps campaigning for Buzz Bands’ man of the year. The guy whose guitar keeps the engines running for Fool’s Gold [pictured] and Foreign Born is racking up quite a resumé. Outside of his day job writing music for TV commercials and his band-juggling, Pesacov has produced the forthcoming Best Coast album and […]
