San Bernardino, CA- The prospect of seeing some of the bands that make up my earliest memories of punk music at It’s Not Dead Fest 2 made the awkward, doofy high schooler within me positively elated. Historic heavy-hitters such as Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, Buzzcocks, and The Adicts all under one blazing hot sun– be still […]
In mid February of this year, pop punk mega giants All Time Low debuted the new single “Dirty Laundry” before fully announcing the release of their fifth studio album “Last Young Renegade”. Along with this exciting news was word of a full US summer tour with support from Waterparks and SWMRS. The fifth date of the tour […]
The New York based pop punk duo Diet Cig released their debut album “Swear I’m Good At This” on April 7 of this year and hit the road to tour in support of this album. On May 5th, they swung by Chain Reaction and it was the first time I had been there in over 10 […]
The second opening act for Diet Cig was the pop punkstress solo act from Seattle, Lisa Prank. While she may only have one album under her belt, she has been involved with other musical projects since 2008. Her debut album, Adult Teen, was released in 2016 and the name definitely lives up to not only […]
FOR OUR COMPLETE BROKE L.A. COVERAGE CLICK HERE! The last artist I was able to catch at Broke L.A. was Lexie Papillon’s Bloodboy. I read somewhere online that Lexie was a surfer turned rocker, and watching her live performance I was thoroughly impressed with the physicality that she embodied into her music. Her music lends itself to her joyfully hyperactive […]
If there’s one thing I love more than seeing a band that I like perform live, it’s seeing them perform better than I had remembered them in the first place. Back in 2014, I went to a small dive venue to check out FEA: a San Antonio based band founded by two members (Jenn Alva and […]
There was a lot of music that came out in 2016. In fact, there may have been too much … so much that you may have overlooked a gem here and there. Well, let me know throw another nugget of fantastic American pop rock in your direction: Against The Current. Their debut album, “In Our […]
The first band to open for Against The Current at The Roxy was Beach Weather. Having released an EP earlier this year (“What A Drag”), the band, fronted by Nick Santino (formerly of Rocket To The Moon), has been touring around the world to get their high energy, pop-rock sounds out to the masses. This […]
CLICK HERE FOR MORE 30 DAYS IN LA COVERAGE! As the clocked ticked later and later into the night, the crowd at Exchange LA grew more and more restless. Though the opening acts (SHAED and Montell2099) admirably played their extended sets to quell the anticipation, everyone in the room was there for one reason only: Charli XCX. […]
When 12 Russians say you’re drunk, you lie down—as if Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 has been known to follow old-world maxims. It took a very real near-death experience to sober him up; and perhaps thanks in part to the will of the Rock Gods, he and Sum 41 are back and better than ever. […]
