Ohana Festival 2026 Review: Five Visits, Still My Favorite
LOS ANGELES, CA- For my fifth Ohana Festival, I changed almost everything about how I got there. I changed nothing about why I wanted to go. For the first time, I did not stay in Dana Point for the weekend. Each morning, I drove down…
NativeCare Takes Best Infused Pre-Roll at Legacy Cup as Minnesota’s First Native-Owned Brand Keeps Expanding
MINNEAPOLIS — The seventh annual Legacy Cup wrapped Saturday at Surly Brewing Festival Field, and NativeCare left with the hardware that matters most to the people who grow and roll the product: Best Infused Pre-Roll. That trophy is not a surprise to anyone who has…
Lucy Dacus Reimagines Her Music With the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
LOS ANGELES, CA- There are artists whose music I admire more than I necessarily love. For a long time, Lucy Dacus occupied something close to that space for me. I have always appreciated her songwriting, particularly her penchant for crafting intensely personal lyrics that…
AmiAmi Brings Hobby Camp to Life at Anime Expo 2026
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT MORE COVERAGE AT ANIME EXPO 2026 LOS ANGELES, CA- For collectors accustomed to browsing AmiAmi through a computer screen, Anime Expo offered something considerably more dangerous to the wallet: the opportunity to encounter the legendary Japanese hobby retailer’s merchandise in…
Berner’s Cookies Ordered to Pay $61.5M in Fraud Ruling
Cookies just took another multimillion-dollar hit. On September 9, 2026, Gron Ventures and Red Tech announced a final arbitration award of more than $61.5 million against Cookies Creative Consulting & Promotions (CCCP), the company behind the Cookies brand, and president Parker Berling. Retired Orange County…
The Panopticon of Cool: Crook on Why Artists Need to Be Uncool Again
LOS ANGELES, CA- I first stumbled across Daniel Crook almost by accident. I had gone to Zebulon to see another band and arrived early enough to catch the tail end of Crook’s set. I didn’t know Daniel. I didn’t know the songs. I just remember…
Sorana on K-Pop, Songwriting and Finding Her Own Sound
LOS ANGELES, CA- There was something about Sorana’s story that I couldn’t quite get out of my head. Here is a young woman from Transylvania who somehow carved out a niche for herself in the hypercompetitive world of K-pop songwriting. Not Seoul. Not Los…
oskar med k – live at Red Rocks Park, Colorado
oskar med k – live at Red Rocks Park, Colorado is a 40-minute official live set uploaded to the producer’s YouTube channel on May 29, 2026. Shot outdoors at Red Rocks Park rather than as a full-length headline concert, it captures oskar med k’s melodic…
The Stray Cats Bring Rockabilly Revival to Ohio
HUBER HEIGHTS, OH- The Kings of Rockabilly returned to the road this summer, and after an unexpected delay, there was a little more meaning behind seeing those three familiar figures standing together onstage again. The Stray Cats’ return had been postponed from last year…
John Mellencamp Brings the Hits and Heartland Rock to the Hollywood Bowl
LOS ANGELES, CA- As part of my ongoing quest to see all the huge musicians of my childhood while it’s still possible, I trekked out to the Hollywood Bowl for John Mellencamp’s “Dancing Worlds” tour. The show was billed as a greatest hits performance,…
