Derrick Lee
Dressed In Black, Gateway Drugs Tames The Sunstock Solar Festival Heat
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE for more SUNSTOCK SOLAR FESTIVAL Coverage! As the day’s temperature was reaching its pinnacle, LA’s own Gateway Drugs took the stage to rock the crowd with their dark, psychedelic rock. Though their music, in my own personal opinion, is better suited…
yOya Kicks Off Sunstock Solar Festival With Their Bright Folktronica
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE for more SUNSTOCK SOLAR FESTIVAL Coverage! Kicking off the music at Sunstock Solar Festival was the Oregon bred, Los Angeles based, band yOya. The group’s founding members, Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich, are folk to the core, but they use…
Bear Hands Gets Comfortable At Make Music Pasadena
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE For More Blurred Culture Coverage of Make Music Pasadena 2016 Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the indie electro quartet Bear Hands graced one of Make Music Pasadena’s stages on 6/11/16. This was my first time…
The Sunstock Solar Festival’s Future Looks Bright, Powered 100% by The Sun
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] “Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.” – Michael Franti While solar and…
Carly Rae Jepsen Closed L.A. PRIDE With The Feel-Good Show Everyone Needed
CLICK HERE for more L.A. PRIDE Coverage! WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA- Major kudos must be given to the agency that put together the lineup for this year’s L.A. PRIDE. With Krewella‘s electronic banger of set on Friday, and Charli XCX‘s sexually charged performance on Saturday, the festival perfectly balanced…
Timeflies Took Flight At L.A. PRIDE With Hyped Performance
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE for more L.A. PRIDE Coverage! Timeflies is an American indie pop duo of producer Rob Resnick and vocalist Cal Shapiro. Known for their original music and their extremely popular YouTube covers (over 175 Million views!), they…
Big Freedia Twerked It Out at L.A. PRIDE
CLICK HERE for more L.A. PRIDE Coverage! Until relatively recently, homosexuality and LBGT issues were not part of the hip hop dialogue. With Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ hit “Same Love” to Frank Ocean’s coming out, that discussion has moved more into the mainstream, with various voices impacting…
Equal Parts Sass and Sensuality, Charli XCX’s L.A. Pride Performance Was Everything
CLICK HERE for more L.A. PRIDE Coverage! A verified pop music diva with co-writing and featuring credits on global smashes like Icono Pop’s “I Love It” and Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy”, and her own hit singles “Boom Clap” and “Doing It”, Charli XCX’s performance at L.A. Pride was…
Australia’s Hamish Anderson Impresses At Make Music Pasadena
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE For More Blurred Culture Coverage of Make Music Pasadena 2016 A few of my friends who are fans of blues/folk rock have suggested that I check out a young chap from Melbourne, Australia, named Hamish…
Gallant’s L.A. PRIDE Performance Serves As Warm Up For Ology Tour
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE for more L.A. PRIDE Coverage! If there was one thing that I regret about my coverage of L.A. PRIDE it was that I missed a large part of Gallant’s set. Ever since I heard his duet with Jhene…