The Neighbourhood, with its carefully structured aesthetic, has taken the glitz and glamor stereotype of California and spun it 180 degrees. They've molded and re-molded with each new track a style that is so distinctly from the West Coast, yet so different from the standard sound. This new track yet again attempts at a new style, this time bringing some Hip Hop influences into the mix. It's sexy, provocative, and edgy, a kind of California attempt at The Weeknd's dirty R&B. The Neighbourhood have clearly got a...
The first time I spoke with the guys from The Neighbourhood, they put me on speaker phone in their car during the drive back to Newbury Park from some of the more "famous" parts of Los Angeles. It was a great night to be on the phone with the boys from the Neighbourhood—a night that was, for them, a surreal one. It as the first time they had heard their music on the radio. I asked Jesse Rutherford (lead singer) if he remembered that night: Jesse Rutherford: Oh yeah, of course. That was an awesome night. I didn't...
A Quick Word from the Author: This has been an incomparably fruitful January for new music, across the board but more specifically Indie. It seems as if the music gods are making up for the lackluster performance they exhibited in 2012, and frankly, I'm quite shocked. To put it in...
![The Neighbourhood - Say My Name / Cry Me A River [Cover]](/thumbs/post/320x152/the-neighbourhood1.png)
Play Speaking about why they chose the cover, Jessie commented: "Our tour manager (@ellisusa) showed us a remix of ‘Say My Name’ recently and we all dug it a lot. I’ve always loved that song. That is what I grew up on—just late ’90s...
![Straight From The Teet 020 [7 Days / 7 Albums]](/thumbs/post/320x152/straight-from-the-teet34.png)
True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today’s age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a...
The Neighbourhood, in case you haven't gotten the memo, are one of the hottest tickets in music; the heir(s) apparent to the indie-rock throne. Their singles have floated around the net like a celebrity's hacked cell-phone pictures: everyone was talking about them, no one was sure where they came...
![The Neighbourhood - I'm Sorry... [EP]](/thumbs/post/320x152/bike-calm10.png)
Los Angeles indie-rockers The Neighbourhood have finally emerged from the shadows with the release of their first EP, I'm Sorry..., coupled with the release of a third single, "Wires." Wires is consistent with the group's overall feel. Lead singer Jesse James Rutherford's hip-hop background...
A month ago, EARMILK introduced the enigmatic band The Neighbourhood to our readers. Since our last rendezvous, The Neighbourhood still maintains an intriguingly distant persona, yet in preparation for the drop of their upcoming May 7 debut EP I'm Sorry, they released their new song "Wire" on BBC...
