One month after dropping the Song of the Summer contender “Quitting,” Eliza McLamb is back with the new single “Like the Boys.” The track is a slow-burning charmer that sneaks up on you, quietly building into seismic, cathartic riffs as McLamb reflects on being a girl among the boys. “I …
Read More »Maybe You've Heard Eliza McLamb. But You Don't Know Her
I feel like a modern woman,” Eliza McLamb sings over a bursting guitar riff. “I get up late, I’m always saying/‘Man, I gotta hit the DMV’/Always bills I’m paying.” McLamb’s debut album, Going Through It, has been one of this year’s best-kept secrets since its release this past January. “Modern …
Read More »Illuminati Hotties Deliver the Indie-Pop Record of the (Late) Summer With 'Power'
“Every day’s a blessing/Every day’s a problem,” Sarah Tudzin sings on her fourth album, Power. If the sentiment is ambivalent, the sound is anything but: a sharp power-pop bounce that opens up into a radiant chorus. Tudzin, a Los Angeles singer-songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist who has been recording as Illuminati Hotties since the …
Read More »How Sarah Tudzin Made the Most Powerful Illuminati Hotties Record Yet: 'I Was Wrestling This Album to the Ground'
Two years ago, Sarah Tudzin found herself alone in the Joshua Tree desert. Armed with some recording gear, her pitbull mix, Maeby, and a turned-off cell phone, she holed up in an Airbnb in an attempt to get real about making the fourth Illuminati Hotties record. But first, she had …
Read More »Illuminati Hotties Return With New Single 'Can't Be Still,' Preps Tour
Iluminati Hotties, the project of Sarah Tudzin, is back with the chill rocker “Can’t Be Still.” The new single opens with a crisp guitar riff, as Tudzin sings, “I triple-book my Saturdays/But I pretend/My program keeps me from freaking out.” In the video below, she ambles around Los Angeles before …
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