A boundary-free trio of friends navigates rough recording waters to find home at Sargent House.
At long last, ALARM unveils its 11 favorite albums of 2013 — a list of amazing music that you won’t find anywhere else.
Saving the best for last, we’ve chosen our 51 favorite albums of 2013, pulled from the acclaimed and the unsung — some of the best as well as most boundary-pushing releases from rock and beyond.
Four learned scholars of riffology with a penchant for injecting their unique brand of doom-ridden metal-punk with a dose of good.
Tera Melos scores an extended peak into the collective subconscious with the new video for “Weird Circles.”
Most of the best album art of June 2013 has one thing in common: loads of color.
Bosnian Rainbows: s/t (Sargent House, 6/25/13)
Omar Rodriguez Lopez finds it impossible to slow down. The former Mars Volta guitarist is going full blast on his new project, Bosnian Rainbows, mere months after the Mars Volta break-up announcement. The band, a collaboration with Teri Gender Bender, Deantoni Parks, and Nicci Kasper, is releasing its first album June 25.
Tera Melos: X’ed Out (Sargent House, 4/16/13)
Prog-pop powerhouse Tera Melos has a brand-new album, X’ed Out, and it happens to be one of our favorites of the week. Watch the boys of the power trio go Powerpuff Girls in this bizarre video for “Bite,” and then make plans to catch the band’s month-plus national tour, which starts today.
Henry Kohen, also known as Mylets, has been hanging out at Sargent House since February as the artist in residence. Now, as part of the label’s Glassroom video series, he has released “Ampersand,” from his first full-length to be recorded later this year. Check it out try to keep track of his array of pedals, flying fingers, and drum-machine abuse.
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Named after the historic home where its offices reside, Sargent House isn’t your ordinary music company. It’s a management company but also a record label — and houses a PR company (US/Them Group), a video-production site (Terroreyes TV), and, now, a licensing and music-supervision division (1656 Music).
Situated between Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles, Sargent House is all of these things, and its owner and founder, Cathy Pellow, isn’t your ordinary businessperson either. From her beginnings as a 20-year-old representing fashion photographers in New York, to her role as a film producer and talent-boutique owner, to creating a music-television show and commissioning videos for Island and Atlantic Records, Pellow holds an unusual pedigree for an indie-label head.