Video premiere: Vistalite, ‘Don’t Listen to Yourself’
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Vistalite — the solo project of drummer Jesse Hoy — is prepping its fourth EP, “Dead White.” The video for “Don’t Listen to Yourself” features some nifty Dad dancing.
The Deadly Syndrome call it quits
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The Deadly Syndrome has passed away, and far too soon. The L.A. indie-rock quartet, who exploded onto the scene around 2007 with jagged but beautiful guitar songs, a fascination with ghosts and a famously chaotic stage show, announced today they were calling it quits. “If everyone on the planet could feel, just for a moment, […]
Stream: The Deadly Syndrome, ‘Spirit of the Stairs’
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Around 2007, the Deadly Syndrome were among the brightest lights on L.A.’s indie-rock horizon, four scruffy dudes who performed sweat-soaked shows with cardboard cutouts of ghosts onstage – a reference to one of their best songs and also symbolic of the quartet’s unspoken maxim that what they were doing (and probably whatever we were, too) […]
This weekend in L.A.: Sweater Festival (w/Deadly Syndrome, Pity Party and more), KROQ Christmas show, No Age, the Soft Pack, Warpaint, Madlib
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[Holiday parties, holiday shows, holiday shopping … Anybody else want to rewind to Thanksgiving and do the last couple weeks over?] My favorite holiday specials: ‣ Not only is the annual Christmas Sweater Festival a hoot because of all the cheesy sweaters that emerge, but it’s for a good cause – and we get to […]
Video: The Deadly Syndrome, ‘Trouble Again’
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Eight thousand ants and singer Chris Richard star in Grant James’ video for the Deadly Syndrome’s “Trouble Again,” which premiered on Consequence of Sound, where you can get more background. It’s a remarkable piece of videography for a gorgeously tender song, which appears on the L.A. quartet’s sophomore album “Nolens Volens.” That album, by the […]
Casxio, the Deadly Syndrome ask fans for a kick-start
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With too much music for the incredible shrinking record industry to nurture, artists are increasingly turning to fan-funded strategies to help get their work manufactured and marketed.. Add disco-funk quartet Casxio, indie-rockers the Deadly Syndrome [that’s their new Aurelien Levitan-directed video for “Armrest,” above”] and singer-songwriter Bleu to the list of artists trying to finance […]
L.A. artists explore the sense of ‘Adventure’
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Television’s 1977 album “Marquee Moon” is recognized as one of the greatest debut albums of all time. The quartet’s follow-up, “Adventure,” was excellent (if less rough around the edges) in its own right – and now L.A. blogging luminary Aquarium Drunkard has cast a spotlight on it with the release of “L’Aventure,” a digital compilation […]
Tonight in L.A.: Morning Benders, Deadly Syndrome, Ray Davies, She & Him, Dead Meadow, Glacier Hiking
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[Happy birthday, Elton John. Meanwhile, in L.A., my head’s going to explode from the overwhelming selection of good-to-great shows tonight:] First, two indie bands with new albums I highly recommend: The Morning Benders (with Miniature Tigers and We Barbarians supporting, play the Troubadour; and the Deadly Syndrome [Chris Richard, pictured] celebrating the release of “Nolens […]
Album: The Deadly Syndrome, ‘Nolens Volens’
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The Deadly Syndrome, “Nolens Volens” (self-released) – Someday the Los Angeles quartet might make an album as explosive as its live show, but for now we have this: a sophomore record filled with tender moments that feel like pleas for emotional truth in times when guys wearing the right hipster uniforms are anointed prophets (and, […]
Newsbits: The Bird and the Bee, Japanese Motors, Palmdale, the Deadly Syndrome, the LA Collection
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[Catching up on some recent developments …] File this under interesting twists: the next album by the Bird and the Bee will be “Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates” (March 23 on Blue Note Records). No irony from the mouths of Greg Kurstin and Inara George here, says […]
