New Music and Video

Reviews of new music, video, concerts and music festivals.

LA LUZ SHARE MUSIC VIDEO FOR “CICADA”; NEW ALBUM FLOATING FEATURES OUT MAY 11th

Hardly Art is pleased to announce the return of L.A. shredders La Luz, whose new album Floating Features will arrive on LP, CD, digital, and cassette Friday, May 11th. Propulsive first single "Cicada" offers a taste of Floating Features' blissed-out hi-fi...

Record Review: Vetiver

Vetiver The Errant Charm San Francisco, CA “Let the sun warm it’s way to me” Close your eyes, and imagine yourself walking through the streets of a busy urban city, the sun beaming down on your face...

Record Review: Ty Segall

Ty Segall Goodbye Bread San Francisco, CA “Meet me in the Soft Fuzz and Psych-Punk Garage” For Ty Segall’s second full-length album, the Bay Area rocker kept with his twangy assortment of car...

Record Review: SWTHRT

SWTHRT Compact Disc Southport, NC “Synth pop rock with plenty of pathos” North Carolina duo SWTHRT’s (pronounced: “sweetheart”) debut album crochets homemade rock honesty with weathered-heart wisdom...

Record Review: Sleepy Vikings

Sleepy Vikings They Will Find You Here Tampa, FL “From the depths of the shoegaze swamps” At times, the term “shoegaze” gets abused as a genre. However, it does raise eyebrows when Tampa-based group...

Record Review: Panda Bear

Panda Bear Tomboy Baltimore, MD “Album of the year from the singer of Animal Collective” Tomboy is the vivid sound of Panda Bear, aka Animal Collective frontman Noah Lenox, who after bearing his...

Record Review: The Oxygen Ponies

The Oxygen Ponies Exit Wounds Brooklyn, NY ”Some wounds won’t ever heal” A gun-shot may technically sound like a bang, or look like a cloud of smoke surrounding a body crumpled up on the ground. In...