How To Ruin A Country
Germany loves to present itself as the adult in the room — the global hall monitor with a clipboard, sighing at the messy kids. Especially Americans. Loud, wasteful, unserious… unlike Germany, land of engineering, planning, and doing things “the right way.” And then Germany pulled…
Dexter and the Moonrocks and Girl Tones Light Up The Troubadour in Sold-Out Los Angeles Show
LOS ANGELES, CA- The Troubadour holds a special place in my heart for the same reason it holds a special place in Los Angeles; it acts as a time capsule as much as it acts as a concert venue. Those walls have been listening for…
City of the Sun Bring Swagger and Transcendence to the Lodge Room
LOS ANGELES, CA- City of the Sun brings insane levels of swagger to instrumental guitar. Typically, instrumental music isn’t really a genre with much traction outside of elitist performance venues. I’m thinking about quasi-recitals at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where half the people…
Grace Ives Returns With Electrifying New Single “Stupid Bitches” Ahead of Girlfriend
LOS ANGELES, CA- There are certain artists whose names hover in your peripheral vision for a while before you finally lock in. I had heard the name Grace Ives before, but it wasn’t until I pressed play on her new single “Stupid Bitches” that…
Jonah Kagen’s “Talkin’ About Jesus” Turns a First Date Into Folk-Rock Heartbreak
LOS ANGELES, CA- Apparently, I have been slow on the roll when it comes to picking up on Jonah Kagen. While he’s currently out on a largely sold-out headline run and celebrating a Gold certification for “God Needs The Devil,” I am just now…
Just Jayne Deliver Breezy Country Sass on New Single “Death & Taxes”
LOS ANGELES, CA- There is something undeniably charming about a country song that knows exactly what it is and does not try to oversell itself. With “Death & Taxes,” Nashville trio Just Jayne lean into that sweet spot between sass and sincerity, delivering a…
Leigh-Anne Finds Her Voice on “Goodbye Goodmorning” and Debut Album My Ego Told Me To
LOS ANGELES, CA- When the press release for “Goodbye Goodmorning” landed in my inbox and I hit play, I was not expecting to be pulled in that quickly. But from the opening bars, Leigh-Anne had me. There is something immediately arresting about the sonics….
Brazilian Coffee Culture: Why Cafezinho Matters and How Brazilians Make Coffee
Brazil doesn’t just drink coffee — it lives inside it. Coffee is the country’s unofficial punctuation mark: a tiny cup offered when you arrive, when you leave, when a conversation turns serious, when it’s time to stall for a second, when it’s time to reconnect….
The Cookie Crumbles — Berner, Parker Berling, and Matthew Barron Are Sued Again
Cookies keeps selling a lifestyle, but the paperwork keeps selling a different story: courtrooms, conflicts, and the same names showing up like it’s a residency. In the newest suit filed by NEDCO, LLC in Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Francisco,…
