In "Winter Games," L.A.'s multi-tasking Fool's Gold-associated Foreign Born gave us a colorfully hazy, slow dissolving dance off (and on). This time out, for fellow Person To Person track "Early…   Read Story »

The last time Grizzly Bear visited Conan, the Tonight Show host was still doing his show out of NYC and the band was just starting to prime the pump for Veckatimest with a pre-release performance of…   Read Story »

Genre-hopping experimental it-kids Micachu & The Shapes offer a slightly different shape to the Los Angeles Afro (and kraut and '80s dance) rock enthusiasts Fool's Gold's Hebrew-intoned, endlessly…   Read Story »

When we spoke with Matt Popieluch about non-album track "Wander Aimlessly," the Foreign Born vocalist/guitarist/"lo-fi renaissance man" mentioned that the song was partially inspired while he was…   Read Story »

Last week we heard from Fool's Gold, an LA band occasionally comprising members of Foreign Born and with similar (if not deeper) interests in exploring African forms of pop music. While Foreign…   Read Story »

Los Angeles quartet Foreign Born release sophomore LP Person To Person 6/23 via Secretly Canadian. The shuffling "Wander Aimlessly" doesn't appear on it, but it did debut in this week's Drop. We…   Read Story »

Los Angeles quartet Foreign Born release sophomore LP Person To Person 6/23 via Secretly Canadian. The shuffling "Wander Aimlessly" doesn't appear on it, but debuts in this week's Drop. We asked…   Read Story »

These days the new cool is getting artist blogs to blog about other artists. Extra cool hunting points are awarded if you go Kanye-style and start premiering songs and videos for your RSS…   Read Story »

Continuing a run of shows that's hit venues both intimate (Music Hall Of Williamsburg) and iconic (the Apollo Theater), Chan settled into Los Angeles's Avalon Theater for two nights this week. Our…   Read Story »

When you put a choir behind a band, good things can definitely happen. We dig L.A. group Foreign Born's "Union Hall," but seeing them do it with a robed posse surrounding them ups the chill factor.…   Read Story »