Biography: Drawing a heavy influence from Tom Waits, Los Angeles hipster Eleni Mandell initiated a recording career with art-cool albums packed with her gritty, noir-ish sketches. Mandell, who was a huge fan of L.A. punkers X growing up, was raised in the Sherman Oaks region of the San Fernando Valley, and began ...Read full biography
The specter of Tom Waits lurks all over the sexy, cabaret torch songs on Eleni Mandell's second full-length, Thrill. Featuring members of X and Idaho, this album twists and slinks from the dingy dive of ...Read full review
Jon Brion became ubiquitous on the music scene of the late '90s as a player and producer of sophisticated pop music that looked equally forward and backward, and the albums on which he played and produced ...Read full review