Derrick Lee
Day Three of Outside Lands Featured Powerful Performances By Powerful Women
HOME PAGE | DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY THREE SAN FRANCISCO, CA- When I planned my festival schedule for Day 3, I made a conscious effort to to include on my list a bunch of performances by acts that I wanted to see perform live. It just so happened that a…
Eddie Vedder Reflects On This Weekend’s Ohana Festival
DANA POINT, CA- In anticipation of this weekend’s Ohana Festival, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, the festival’s founder, took some time to put pen to pad to reflect and recall what this music festival is all about: With a stacked line-up that features Eric Church, Norah…
Get Yourself to Desert Daze! Tix Still Available!
LOS ANGELES, CA- Festivals aren’t news anymore. I stopped getting excited about lineup announcements at least a few years ago. There’s a good period of six months each year during which it seems like there’s one every weekend. Very few sell out anymore, and some…
M.I.A. and Jamie xx Give All My Friends Something To Remember
HOME PAGE | AUGUST 18TH | AUGUST 19TH LOS ANGELES, CA- Day two at All My Friends featured some amazing performances from both rising talent and established artists. With set-times overlapping, it was impossible to catch every one but the select artists that we were able to catch provided…
Kishi Bashi And The Essence Of Omoiyari
LOS ANGELES, CA- Every summer, the Skirball Cultural Center holds a series of free summer concerts. The Sunset Concerts concluded it twenty-second season last month, and Blurred Culture was able to attend its August 23rd offering featuring the internationally renowned recording artist Kishi Bashi. It…
The Marcus King Band Gives Los Angeles A Taste Of “Carolina Confessions”
LOS ANGELES, CA- While I was waiting for the music to start up at the Troubadour, I ran into my old friend Chad who works in artist relations for D’Angelico Guitars. He was honestly impressed that I was out to see Marcus King headline the evening…
TV on the Radio Make A Statement With Their Hollywood Bowl Performance
LOS ANGELES, CA- “… Honing their musical craft at the same time in the same city, TV On The Radio and Grizzly Bear are close. KCRW pairing the two acts on the same night couldn’t have been a better choice. With a setlist that spanned…
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Is Exploring Various Artistic Expressions
HOLLYWOOD, CA- “… Kicking off the evening’s musical offering was the enigmatic recording artist Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. After a fantastic 2017 with the release of her undeniably brilliant album The Kid, Kaitlyn has been busy sowing the seeds of her own mini empire with an independent…
An Outside Lands Newbie Experiences All That San Fransisco’s Largest Music Festival Has To Offer
HOME PAGE | DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY THREE SAN FRANCISCO, CA- Per Wikipeida, “‘Outside Lands’ was the name used in the 19th century for the present-day Richmond District and Sunset District in San Francisco, California. With few roads and no public transportation, the area was covered by sand dunes and was…
Watch Wolf Bay Perform Live At Madame Siam
HOLLYWOOD, CA- On September 22, 2018, Wolf Bay graced the stage at Madame Siam to play some new music. Her debut, full length album gets released on November 2, 2018. Be sure to peep the new music, and check out the full interview with Wolf…