Tonight, Linda Perhacs will perform live and have a chat with Carlos Nino on his Spaceways Radio show on 90.7 KPFK. In your car or online at 10pm. Julia Holter, Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel, and Michelle Vidal of Eagle Winged Palace will be singing with Perhacs, and Aaron Robinson will play guitar. Tonight’s radio [...]

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Sound collagist and Leaving Records label head Matthewdavid brings lush organic textures, warned samples of field recordings, and carefully manipulated hazy beats to his first Brainfeeder EP. These sounds are comforting like yuk.’s warm wilderness in A D W A; Matthewdavid too captures the lo-fi ambient calm of the natural world and the feeling of getting lost in it.

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Sound of the Police is the most mind-blowing live record I’ve heard in a while. Cut Chemist comes correct with one turntable, one mixer, one big old loop pedal (a Boss RC-50 for the gearheads), a lot of vinyl and an overwhelming amount of creativity. He weaves scratchy, generally unheard of LPs and 45s from South America and Africa into new fresh sounds.

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If Awaken! is a peek into the psyche of band mastermind Jesse Rakusin, then the inside of his head must be a hazy and oddly comfortable place. Firmly rooted in lo-fi psych and smoky bedroom blues, the eponymous full-length finds Rakusin attempting otherworldly heights equipped only with a 4-track.

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Gestapo Khazi play adrenalized surf-punk served straight up. If Dick Dale and the Wipers formed a band and put a three-minute limit on songs, it’d sound like this. I have no idea what the lyrics are about (surf conditions? Master Race? Cars? ObamaCare?) but who cares: it’s surf punk, so just stop thinking and go with it.

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Any girl that’s ever rebelled should know Wanda Jackson. In the 1950s, this Fujiyama Mama strutted out onto the country scene wearing tight fringe dresses, hair dyed black, and with a rocking growl, arrived at the party in Elvis’s pink Cadillac. While she’s finally in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, young folks have probably never heard her on the radio. That should change after her new album with Jack White offers the world a lesson in reality. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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Something of a Los Angeles vocal supergroup, the Living Sisters are composed of the Bird and the Bee’s Inara George, Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark and Eleni Mandell’s Eleni Mandell. This is a practiced tribute to the great harmonizers of jazz, early rock ‘n’ roll and country.

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It was bright. It was bliss. The debut single from L.A. band Sweaters is a true pop artifact—never plastic, never dull, but rough around the edges, like gravel in the warm sun.

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The overall feeling of the record is radiation from all directions. It highlights both the high and the low, the retro and the futuristic, the self-styled and the reconstituted. All of that aside, it’s an unmistakably fun record with enough bump for your next deck party.

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Gizzelle sings late ’50s blues and early ’60s soul in the vein of Etta James and Big Maybelle, with a bit of Wild rock ‘n’ roll mixed in. Gizzelle’s voice is much more aggressive and emotional, better suited to this feminist anthem. When Gizzelle says she’s a good woman, it’s hard not to doubt her; and if you did, she’d probably punch you in the face.

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