Protege Showers The Santa Monica Pier Twilight Concert With Innovative Reggae
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE REST OF OUR COVERAGE OF SANTA MONICA PIER’S TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES As soon as the InDiggNation opened the set with two songs of ingeniously crafted, instrumental reggae vibes on the Santa Monica Pier,…
Wild Belle’s Exuberance At Sound In Focus Put Audience In A “Dreamland”
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE FOR OUR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THIS YEARS SOUND IN FOCUS CONCERT SERIES The lead members of Wild Belle, Elliot and Natalie Bergman, are no strangers to the music scene. The brother-sister duo began making jazzy tunes together long…
Nas Closes The Sound In Focus Concert Series As Only A Hip Hop Legend Can
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE FOR OUR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THIS YEARS SOUND IN FOCUS CONCERT SERIES In 1994, Nas (a/k/a Nasty Nas a/k/a Nas Escobar a/k/a Nastradamus) released “Illmatic”, a hip hop album that revived the New York rap scene and is deemed by…
Brazilian Girls’ Energy Charm The “Sound In Focus” Crowd
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE FOR OUR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THIS YEARS SOUND IN FOCUS CONCERT SERIES Brazilian Girls is so fun. Nouveau disco funk. A sort of 80s punk / post punk feel. They’re all over the place … and that’s their…
The Dead Ships Play Intimate Gig To Celebrate The Release Of Their New Album
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] Highland Park got unusually busy when The Dead Ships made its way to The Hi Hat to celebrate the release of their new LP “Citycide” (Nevado Music). In a relatively short period of time, this garage-rock band earned the love…
Post Punk Nostalgia Stirred When The Psychedelic Furs Rocked The Santa Monica Pier
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE REST OF OUR COVERAGE OF SANTA MONICA PIER’S TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES I am sure I am not the first (and I most certainly will not be the last) to claim ‘Pretty in Pink’…
Jackson Phillips’ Day Wave Washes Twilight Concert Crowd With Atmospheric Sonics
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE REST OF OUR COVERAGE OF SANTA MONICA PIER’S TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES “People always say, ‘Get out of your head You’ve been there too long Pretty soon, you’ll be dead’ Then I thought, oh,…
Nerds of The World Unite! Weird Al And His Unparalleled Parody Invade The Hollywood Bowl
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] An upfront admission: I stopped identifying as a nerd years ago. I don’t mean to suggest that I don’t spend my days knee-deep doing nerdy crap, of course; nobody who freaked out over (FINALLY) catching a Jigglypuff…
Straight No Chaser’s Harmonies Whet Weird Al Fan’s Appetite At Hollywood Bowl
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] People who talk too much about musical arrangements are generally kind of like people who talk too much about a movie’s cinematography: there’s usually a strong chance that they are just trying to say that they like something’s…
Classixx Warms Up The “Sound In Focus” Crowd With Their Infectious Dance Grooves
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE FOR OUR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THIS YEARS SOUND IN FOCUS CONCERT SERIES On June 3, 2016, Classixx released their sophomore album; the very adventurous “Faraway Reach”. Known for producing tracks that are heavy on the groove, Classixx has…
