Derrick Lee
Grammy Nominated Saweetie Got ICY at HITC
MAIN PAGE | SATURDAY | SUNDAY LOS ANGELES, CA- “… A couple of years ago, I had run into Saweetie and her crew on a random street in Austin, TX during South By Southwest. I recognized her because her publicist had forwarded me some…
Elephante Got Crowd At Double Happiness Stage Dancing To His Heavy Glow
MAIN PAGE | SATURDAY | SUNDAY LOS ANGELES, CA- “… Elephante is a producer/recording artist and had actually tried to set up a time to take portraits of him during the festival, but our schedules didn’t quite match up. I was, however, able to…
Audrey Nuna Tip-Toes the Lines of Hip-Hop and R&B At HITC
MAIN PAGE | SATURDAY | SUNDAY LOS ANGELES, CA- “… I was already familiar with Audrey Nuna before Head In The Clouds. After all, it’s not often, if ever, that a Korean American gets signed to a major label (Artista Records). Trust me when…
The Sibling Duo of Lil Cherry + Goldbuuda Got HITC Hyped
MAIN PAGE | SATURDAY | SUNDAY LOS ANGELES, CA- “…The next act I was able to catch was the brother and sister duo of Lil Cherry and GOLDBUUDA (aka Jito Mo). Originally from South Korea, these siblings killed it with their early day, main…
Ylona Garcia Embodied Fierceness On The Double Happiness Stage
MAIN PAGE | SATURDAY | SUNDAY LOS ANGELES, CA- “..The first performance that I was able to catch was the Filipino-Australian singer Ylona Garica. Some may recognize her from her time on Pinoy Big Brother:737 (2015) when she came out as the runner-up for…
Dead Sara Rock The Roxy With “Ain’t It Tragic”
LOS ANGELES, CA- Dead Sara broke into the scene when their single “Weatherman” blasted into our earholes. That song is a hard-rocking ripper that is guaranteed to get an uninitiated Dead Sara listener banging their heads to its undeniable guitar licks and anthemic “Go…
Love Made Kat Von D Do It At The Belasco
LOS ANGELES, CA- I’m not going to lie… when I got the notice that Kat Von D was set to jump into the music scene as a recording artist, I rolled my eyes. My gut was telling me, “Here we go again. Another celebrity…
Broken Baby Celebrates “Late Stage Optimism” At The Moroccan Lounge
LOS ANGELES, CA- To say I was early anticipating Broken Baby’s sophomore album would be an understatement. After they blew my away with their opening act set for Dead Sara at the Teragram Ballroom in 2018, I was hooked. Their live performance was so…
Cavetown’s Fans Fill The Masonic Lodge At Hollywood Forever With With Joyful Voices
LOS ANGELES, CA- Cavetown fell into my radar sometime during the pandemic when I was browsing the internet for some new music that was “making noise”. There was an album on Billboard’s Americana/Folk albums chart called Sleepyhead that was in the Top 20 from an artist…
Maria Isabel Has First Los Angeles Performance At Moroccan Lounge
LOS ANGELES, CA- Can you remember the first song you heard of an artist that you like? It’s gotta be a song that makes you do a double-take, right? I remember the first time I heard “Stuck In The Sky”. As soon as those…