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Live Review and Gallery: CANNONS Shine Bright with ‘Heartbeat Highway’ Tour – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney 19.10.23
Sydney was set aglow last night as Cannons took the stage for their ‘Heartbeat Highway’ album tour show at the iconic Oxford Art Factory. This marked a significant stop on their debut headline tour of Australia, and the Los Angeles trio did not disappoint as they enchanted the crowd with their unique blend of alternative …
Premiere: Joseph Luca announces new EP and shares soulful lead single ‘Nowhere’
Since getting back on it after understandably hitting the skids in 2020 (who didn’t?), LA-based Joseph Luca‘s been honing his skills via the medium of quickfire single releases. He’s put three out this year so far, and one of them, ‘Green Lights’, is going to be on his debut EP. There’s plenty more to come, …
Premiere: Macedo return with the effortlessly cool ‘Block of Ice’
If it seems like the eponymous Los Angeles duo Macedo have been away for a while, that’s because they have. The pair of Michelle and Melissa Macedo last released an EP called Paradise in 2021, with plans to release further new music remaining up in the air as a knock-on effect of the pandemic. Until …
Premiere: the world famous tease debut album with bubbly teaser track ‘Hollywood Pawn’
What do you do when you move across the country and still don’t feel at home? If you’re the world famous, you form a band and write songs about being out of place in Los Angeles. The quintet is effectively a band of Massachusetts transplants, led by Will Harris, adjusting to culture shock and trying …
Album Review: Colloboh – ‘Saana Sahel’: The electronic musician makes a creative leap on his expansive second EP.
Since joining the Leaving Records community in 2021 after a move from his Baltimore home, Collins Oboh (aka Colloboh) has become significant contributor to the ever fluid LA experimental scene. Able to focus on his music full-time the Nigerian born, self-taught synthesist set out to refine his extensive catalogue of DIY recordings into a more …
Premiere: Kit Major embarks on new era with two new singles and a video for ‘Break Up Again’
She’s not been off radar for long, but it’s clear from her new material that Los Angeles-based Kit Major is gearing up for a big year. Last we heard from her, she was putting a bow on 2022 with the Vampire Saturday EP, and 2023 will bring more music, like the alt-pop double header we’re …
Premiere: Cary LaScala is ‘For Real’ a Solo Artist Now, Shares Debut as Bloody Bananas
You probably shouldn’t eat Bloody Bananas. Or beetroots for that matter. However, Cary LaScala’s needed a little extra time for his solo career under that name to ripen and now it’s ready to be picked. We’re all out of fruit metaphors so that means we can move on to the music. A Bay Area transplant, …
News/Track – Ambient composer Matthewdavid presents the ‘On Mushrooms’EP, electronic collages with a celestial energy.
Los Angeles located Leaving Records have never followed the record label template. It’s more a community of experimental who see releasing music as part of their reaching out. Matthewdavid has been at the hub of this wheel of creativity since 2008, co-founding Leaving with artist Jesselisa Moretti and steadily releasing his own music via the …
Track/Video: Lo-fi soul-jazz voyager Lionmilk releases ‘no question/shaneen’, the opening communication from incoming album ‘Intergalatic Warp Terminal 222’
To label LA based musician/ producer Moki Kawaguchi’s work as Lionmilk a solo project is something of a paradox. Yes his music focuses on a singular pursuit, an exploration of sounds, loops, spoken word, electronic experiments and brief improvisations recorded lo-fi and alone for inner contentment. ‘Music to feel less whack to’ as he puts …
PREMIERE: Strawberry Fuzz kick off 2023 with ‘Dropout’, releasing new album Strongs Dr. tomorrow
Well, that’s one way to start the year. If you’ve been keeping an eye on Los Angeles band Strawberry Fuzz, you’re about to have a very good week. In November, they released the Wasting My Time EP, a sampler from their forthcoming second album. Or rather, imminent second album, because it’s done – and it’s …