Exploring The Electro Global Urban Jungle With MOÜGLI
CLICK HERE To Go Back To Blurred Culture’s SXSW Artist Page For March 14th, 2019 AUSTIN, TX- Given my personal bias in favor of full bands and the analog, if you show up with just two dudes doing synth, you better come correct and you best…
Chronicle of an AfroAlien, Live from Planet Urf.
CLICK HERE To Go Back To Blurred Culture’s SXSW Artist Page For March 15th, 2019 AUSTIN, TX- Cowboys and Aliens. That’s what SXSW 2019 boiled down to for me. A gathering of the most talented artists from the Texas-Tennessee corridor (the cowboys) juxtaposed against a congregation…
Baptism By Tortilla And Other Thoughts On A First SXSW
LOS ANGELES, CA- Third day in Austin, sitting at the bar at El Mercado, crushing breakfast tacos and slamming refills of coffee. It’s close to noon but very hard to imagine that much of anything has transpired during the morning hours on this particular Saturday….
Lucha VaVOOM’s Valentine’s Day Spectacular
LOS ANGELES, CA- There tend to be two schools of thought regarding the celebration of Valentine’s Day. On the one hand, there are those who absolutely love it. Can’t wait. Hearts and chocolates. RomComs and scented candles. Rose petals. All the feels. On the other…
Draemings Give Me Hope For Both The Present And Future Of Music.
LOS ANGELES, CA- I’m trying to think, I must’ve met Kimi Recor, I don’t know. Some years ago. Didn’t know much about her other than she was cool as fuck: Tall. Friendly. Super stylish. But chill. And kinda goofy. A replicant and a vampire, she…
Curtis Harding Takes Los Angeles On A Sonic Voyage Through Soul, Blues & R&B
LOS ANGELES, CA- There’s a beauty and romance in the way soul music continues to rebirth itself into the popular consciousness. It’s not like it ever died. You can certainly trace a progression and evolution over the last 60 years, but the emergence and reemergence…
Florence + The Machine Is High As Hope, Unobstructed and Unapologetic In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA- It was an odd sense of arousal I felt when I learned that Florence and the Machine was playing the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Because Frank Gehry’s temple of acoustic delights isn’t necessarily the right venue for all artists. But for a…
Las Cafeteras: “Beyond La Bamba: A New American Sound” [REVIEW+PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] On the rare occasion that I cross the 101 into the San Fernando Valley, I think of the same things that I assume everyone thinks about: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, strip malls, The Karate Kid, porn,…
Why I Stand With Standing Rock [OPINION]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] SUMMARY: The pipeline poses an unnecessary risk of harm to water resources, the environment, and human health and safety. The routing of the Dakota Access Pipeline through tribal lands is an act of environmental racism and a…
Viva Presents A Chilean Women Synthpop Bonanza for “30 Days In LA”
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE FOR MORE 30 DAYS IN LA COVERAGE! All Chile. All women. All night. The gameplan that Viva Presents put together for Red Bull Sound Select’s 30 Days in LA at Multiply.LA was pretty straight forward:…
