Nov 09, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Lala Lala (aka Lillie West) has shared a new single, “Armida,” via a lyric video. The single is out now via Hardly Art. More

Sep 29, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 31st Songs of the Week of 2023. This week Andy Von Pip, Marc Abbott, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphires all helped me decide what should make the list and we settled on a Top 10. More

Sep 28, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Lala Lala (aka Lillie West) has shared a new single, “HIT ME WHERE IT HURTS.” The single is out now via Hardly Art. More

Mar 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Lala Lala (aka Lillie West) has shared a new single, “Memory.” The song was produced by West alongside Andrew Broder, and it is out now via Hardly Art. More

Oct 06, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lala Lala (aka Lillie West) is releasing a new album, I Want the Door to Open, this Friday via Hardly Art. Now Lala Lala has shared its fourth single, “Utopia Planet,” which features a spoken word section from West’s grandmother, as well as some saxophone playing by Sen Morimoto. Meggie van Zwieten directed the accompanying video. More

Sep 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lala Lala (aka Lillie West) is releasing a new album, I Want the Door to Open, on October 8 via Hardly Art. Now West has shared its third single, “Prove It.” Also shared today was Open the Door: Find Your Keys and Unlock Total Serenity, a quirky new infomercial for the album that features testimonials from CHAI, Sasami Ashworth, Camilo Medina (Divino Niño), IAN SWEET, and more. Sarah Squirm and Will Duncan created the infomercial. More

Aug 24, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Chicago trio Dehd have shared a Lala Lala remix of their song “Desire,” originally featured on their sophomore album Flower of Devotion. It is the latest offering from their forthcoming remix album, Flower of Devotion Remixed, which will be out on September 17 via Fire Talk. More

Aug 11, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lala Lala (aka Lillie West) is releasing a new album, I Want the Door to Open, on October 8 via Hardly Art. Now West has shared its second single, “Color of the Pool,” via a video for it featuring a nighttime motorcycle ride. She has also announced some new 2022 tour dates. More

Jul 14, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lala Lala (aka Lillie West) has announced a new album, I Want the Door to Open, and shared a new song from it, “DIVER,” via a video. I Want the Door to Open features Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie on one song. More

Jul 24, 2020 By Jennifer Irving

Lala Lala (aka Lillie West) has released her newest collaboration, this time featuring electro pop’s eclectic Baths (aka Will Wiesenfeld). The song combines the style of the two, featuring Lala Lala’s relaxed vocals and Baths’s far-off sounding croon and energetic instrumentation. More

Jul 02, 2020 By Samantha Small

Two bands that deserve your attention, Porridge Radio and Lala Lala, have teamed up for “Good For You,” a song completely made in quarantine. Porridge Radio vocalist Dana Margolin and drummer Sam Yardley appear on the track along with Lala Lala’s Lillie West. According to Margolin via Twitter: “It’s called ‘Good For You and it’s about being full of resentment. I really loved making it.” More

Jan 11, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2019. We took an extended break in December, as there aren’t too many notable new songs released at the end of the year (beyond endless Christmas covers), but the past week has been filled with exciting new album announcements, most accompanied by new singles worthy of consideration for this list. More

Nov 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, came out in September via Hardly Art. Now she has shared a self-directed video for the album’s “Copycat” and announced some more tour dates. Watch the video and check out the tour dates below. More

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We tend to avoid including cover versions in our Songs of the Week list, as they are not truly new songs, but this week we have included two notable ones in our main list. We also rarely include live songs in our Top 10 songs, but have made a big exception this week. More

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, came out today via Hardly Art and it’s our Album of the Week. In his review for Under the Radar, our writer Timothy Michalik declared The Lamb “perhaps one of this year’s finest indie rock records to come out of Chicago, if not the country.” More

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, came out today via Hardly Art. Previously “Water Over Sex” was one of our Songs of the Week and we also shared the more low-key and haunting “Dove” (which was an honorable mention in our Songs of the Week list). Now she has shared a video for “Scary Movie.” More

Sep 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We spent the week wondering if Hurricane Florence was going to hit us here at our headquarters in Southwest Virginia. Lucky for us, it seems to have angled further south, and while we may still get some heavy rains and winds in the coming days and week, it likely won’t be as devastating to Virginia as feared. More

Sep 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, is due out September 28 via Hardly Art. Previously “Water Over Sex” was one of our Songs of the Week. Now West has shared another song from the album, the more low-key and haunting “Dove.” More

Aug 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week’s Songs of the Week is packed. Firstly boygenius, the new supergroup featuring Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers, released three songs this week and all were worthy of the list. Thus we decided to expand it from a Top 10 to a Top 12, so that 10 separate artists were still included, be even that wasn’t enough, so we added one more for an unlucky Top 13. More

Sep 28, 2018 By Timothy Michalik

Grief, paranoia, and sobriety. These are states of mind in which our faith in humanity dissipates. That’s exactly the case for Lillie West’s Hardly Art debut, The Lamb. More