With Their Debut Album Slated For Release In Early 2019, It’s Time To Get To Know GOON
LOS ANGELES, CA- Back in October, I saw the U.K. band Shame rock The Teragram. As I’m organizing the photos I took this year, I noticed that I neglected to post my thoughts and photos of one of the bands that opened for them: Goon….
The Aquadolls Get Festive With New Track “Mrs. Clause”
LOS ANGELES, CA- The Aquadolls released their latest album, “The Dream And The Deception” last month. It’s a solid 18 song collection of the lo-fi goodness that we’ve come to love about the band (“I’m A Star”, “Cigboi”, “The Mess”), but it’s an album that…
5 Reasons Why You Should Get Yourself To The El Rey On Thursday For Lauren Ruth Ward
LOS ANGELES, CA- Ok … so if you’ve been keeping an eye on my personal contributions to Blurred Culture, you’ve probably noticed that I’m a big fan of the one … the only … Lauren Ruth Ward. On Thursday December 6th, Lauren will be headlining…
Dead Sara’s Temporary Things Taking Up Space Tour Slays The Teragram Ballroom
LOS ANGELES, CA- Dead Sara. Dead. Fucking. Sara. I love this band. Ever since I caught them touring in support of their self-titled debut album at the El Rey back in 2013, I was hooked. At the time, their vicious live performance raised the bar…
Shame Concludes Their Successful U.S. Run With A Rowdy Performance In L.A.
LOS ANGELES, CA- When I was doing research for South by Southwest this year, I listened to a ridiculous amount of music. Ridiculous. Over time, the melodies of bands’ new music would eventually kind become background noise. Almost kinda like a white noise. Every so often,…
Vinyl Theatre Embraces a more Intimate Setting for a Night out in Durham, NC
DURHAM, NC- The indie rock trio Vinyl Theatre consists of Keegan Calmes (vocals/guitar), Chris Senner (keyboard), and Nick Cesarz (drums). Hailing from Milwaukee, WI, they first released their EP Goldin 2013, with their first full length album Electrogram following not far behind in 2014. When that…
The Brothers Melero Are Ready To Rock Your World As Saages
LOS ANGELES, CA- Saages is a new band that has performed for our weekly event at Madame Siam on multiple occasions. Why? Because they’re good. Period. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, SAAGES is a family affair with bothers Robert on vox &…
Bishop Gunn’s Southern Rock Had Los Angeles Going Wild
LOS ANGELES, CA- Back in September, Bishop Gunn opened for the wunderkind blues guitarist Marcus King, and they let a might impression on me. This band rocks and they rock hard. Equal parts country, blues, funk and good ole rock & roll, Bishop Gunn put…
BEL HAVEN Talks About New Projects Before Shining On the Madame Siam Stage
LOS ANGELES, CA- BEL HAVEN is the musical expressions of the extremely talented, and epically hard working, Dom Liberati. On September 15th, 2018, Blurred Culture and no season was able to host this multi-faceted musician at Madame Siam in Hollywood for a performance celebrating the…
Cherry Glazerr Tears It Up At KCRW’s Masquerade Ball
CLICK HERE to go back to Full Review of KCRW’s Masquerade Ball LOS ANGELES, CA- “… The L.A. based rock band Cherry Glazerr made some noise back in 2014 with their album Haxel Princess, a very solid garage punk effort. But since that album, the band underwent some…
