Las Cafeteras: “Beyond La Bamba: A New American Sound” [REVIEW+PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] On the rare occasion that I cross the 101 into the San Fernando Valley, I think of the same things that I assume everyone thinks about: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, strip malls, The Karate Kid, porn,…
James Vincent McMorrow Returns To Los Angeles With Triumphant Wiltern Performance [REVIEW+PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] “It’s a very special venue”, sighs James Vincent McMorrow as the artist comes out of the shadows, an onto the stage of the venerable Wiltern Theatre. It felt like we got an exceptional variation of vocals that…
Janet Devlin Speaks Openly About Bullying And The “Outernet”
NEW YORK, NY- The first thing that you will notice about Janet Devlin is her eyes, piercing blue and perfect. They may make you uncomfortable because they watch you with a bit of mischief behind them. “What is she thinking?” you might ask yourself, “What…
Foy Vance’s Music Tastes Good Performance Had Fans Longing For More
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE to check out the rest of our coverage of Music Tastes Good 2016 RECAP: No matter how much time is allotted for LA traffic, it hardly ever seems to be enough. I thought for sure…
Las Cafeteras Delights Music Tastes Good Crowd With Socially & Political Conscious Music
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE to check out the rest of our coverage of Music Tastes Good 2016 RECAP: I had heard a lot about Las Cafeteras before I caught their performance at Music Tastes Good. Being a regular reader…
Shakey Graves Showers His “Good Times” On KAABOO
CLICK HERE to check out the rest of our coverage of KAABOO 2016 RECAP: A song can be very sexual. Not erotic per se. But sexual in that very basic rhythmic sense of the process: starting slow, warming things up, easing your way in, and…
Bahari Shows Promise At KAABOO
CLICK HERE to check out the rest of our coverage of KAABOO 2016 RECAP: If there were an award for “Most Photogenic Band” at KAABOO, we’d have to give that award to the fresh faced girls of the band Bahari. Definitely one easier acts to…
Colvin & Earle’s KAABOO Performance Displays The Best Of Americana
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE to check out the rest of our coverage of KAABOO 2016 RECAP: When two folk/Americana heavyweights team up to record an album, you make the time to see them live. As an aspiring photographer, I…
Jimmy Buffett’s Parrotheads Came Out En Masse At KAABOO
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE to check out the rest of our coverage of KAABOO 2016 RECAP: Back in my college days, Jimmy Buffett’s music was synonymous with smoking a joint and popping the top off a cold one. I…
Brandi Carlile’s L.A. Dreams Comes True At The Hollywood Bowl
HOLLYWOOD, CA- The Hollywood Bowl. Its storied stage has featured some of the world’s finest talent. Ella Fitzgerald, Janis Joplin, Luciano Pavarotti, Jimi Hendrix … It’s every aspiring, Los Angeles based musician’s dream to play a set on that historic stage. On August 20th, 2016, Performing…