Unless you’re in the rare band that manages to exceed all kinds of stereotypes and preconceived notions, the odds are that in the modern day music biz, you need to move to one of the big cities to get your big start. That’s not to discredit our friends who don’t live in cities like New
Thursday night in Los Angeles was unlike any we’d seen in a while: it rained. Yes, the presses stopped and everything stood still, literally. Except that is live music. Fans in the City of Angels had a smorgasbord of choices: Cat Power, Titus Andronicus and Delta Spirit. I chose the latter. The Wiltern was the
As everyone knows by now, Superstorm Sandy (or whatever you want to call it) pretty much destroyed New York and New Jersey. Dayton-based Heartless Bastards were a band who got diverted from their tour schedule due to the storm, but managed to survive and talk about it. Their latest video for “Marathon” channels the Wizard
Over the past ten or so years, New York City has emerged as a haven for indie rock bands with Brooklyn at its epicenter. Most of the praise has been given to Brooklyn, and with good reason: it’s a hipster Mecca. There are way too many new bands to list that have emerged from the
Electro-dance-pop is all the rage right now. Unless you haven’t been paying attention, the music that’s been huge abroad and had fans here in the States albeit underground, has finally exploded into the mainstream psyche of music listeners. You can credit that to the growth of satellite radio or young people’s desire to eschew conscious
As we mentioned with both Ultraísta and Smoke & Jackal, for whatever reason, supergroups are in. Combining forces this time around are Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur and drummer Richard Stuverud to form the new band RNDM. The group may be pronounced as “random,” but their origins shouldn’t be as surprising as
Side projects can be a way for a member of a major band to kick out their urges to experiment with another genre or style of music without worrying about the ramifications of pissing off their core fan base. It’s been happening since rock came to prominence in the late ‘50s. Neil Young had multiple
Music history buffs don’t agree on much, but the one thing that they’ll nod their heads in agreement is that The Velvet Underground & Nico is one of the most influential albums on many, many levels. Produced by the ubiquitous Andy Warhol (at least that’s what it says on the album’s iconic cover), the album
San Diego-born, Brooklyn-based Delta Spirit have enjoyed steady degree of success since their formation, but this could be the year that the band becomes less of journeyman outfit into an outfit that cements itself into the psyche of music fans. Since the release of their self-titled, third full-length album, was the band’s highest charting to
Dark Saturday afternoons in Los Angeles, especially in October, usually signal gloom and doom. After all, who would want to leave the safe enclave of their home when the weather as of late has been in the upper ‘70s and sunny? Alas, very few things on a college football Saturday seemed enticing, and on this