Instant Crush Ignite with “Grudge” on Deluxe Edition of I’m Sorry I Didn’t Bite My Tongue
LOS ANGELES, CA- Seattle has always had a way of sharpening its edges in public. From the city’s grunge mythology to its modern indie underground, there is something about artists from the Pacific Northwest that feels wired for intensity. Enter Instant Crush, a Seattle-based…
Inside The Swamp: Inner Wave, Sobriety, and the Long Road Home
LOS ANGELES, CA- On a weekday evening, I found myself driving through a quiet residential pocket of Inglewood. Wide streets. Parked cars. The calm familiarity of a neighborhood settling in for the night. The address I had been given didn’t lead to a commercial…
Dexter and the Moonrocks and Girl Tones Light Up The Troubadour in Sold-Out Los Angeles Show
LOS ANGELES, CA- The Troubadour holds a special place in my heart for the same reason it holds a special place in Los Angeles; it acts as a time capsule as much as it acts as a concert venue. Those walls have been listening for…
City of the Sun Bring Swagger and Transcendence to the Lodge Room
LOS ANGELES, CA- City of the Sun brings insane levels of swagger to instrumental guitar. Typically, instrumental music isn’t really a genre with much traction outside of elitist performance venues. I’m thinking about quasi-recitals at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where half the people…
Wolf Alice at The Wiltern: A Decade of Anticipation and the Artistry of The Clearing
LOS ANGELES, CA- I have followed Wolf Alice for close to a decade, always missing the touring cycles or hearing about the shows a little too late to make it. They were one of those bands I kept promising myself I would finally see the…
Radio Free Alice Ignite Post Punk Nostalgia With Their New Single “Rule 31”
LOS ANGELES, CA- Radio Free Alice’s new single, “Rule 31,” arrives at the exact moment when the band’s momentum has become impossible to ignore. This year alone has launched them from rising curiosity to a genuine international force, a shift marked by a string…
Big Thief’s Moody Amphitheater Performance Captures a Band Still Evolving
AUSTIN, TX- Big Thief closed in on the end of their twenty date North American tour with a stop in Austin, TX on November 5th, the penultimate show before wrapping up a run supporting their sixth studio album ‘Double Infinity’ released in early September via…
Grace Inspace Announces Heavy Hair EP and Shares Haunting New Single “Emergency Contact”
LOS ANGELES, CA- Grace Inspace’s new single “Emergency Contact” feels like a lucid dream you can’t quite place. There’s an uncanny familiarity woven through its melody, as if it’s tugging on something half-remembered from the back of your mind. That sense of déjà vu…
Annabelle Chairlegs Rekindles Her Spark with “Concrete Trees” Ahead of Upcoming Album Waking Up
LOS ANGELES, CA- I’ve been following Annabelle Chairlegs since 2017, the first year I made the trek out to Austin, TX for SXSW. They were one of the first bands I got to see when I arrived, and they’ve stuck with me ever since….
Florence Road Deliver Raw Emotion and Rock Precision on New Single “Miss”
LOS ANGELES, CA- I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon Florence Road, but I do remember trusting my gut. Something about this young Irish band caught my ear early on… enough that I ordered their debut EP Fall Back on vinyl. Only 500…
