Tonight I attended (part) of the final show on the “Perez Hilton Presents” tour at the Avalon in Hollywood. I got the tickets about a month ago when I was in a frenzy of attending concerts. I hadn’t been at all interested until I read Spin Magazine’s review of the first show of the tour
Continuing my thoughts on my upcoming KISS concert, there were a handful of songs I always imagined were by KISS that fit my idea of how hard they must rock. Admittedly, they’re pretty tame by today’s standards, but somehow they’re not as tame as actual KISS songs sound to me. The two standouts on the
My goodness! I never expected to receive as much feedback on my purchase of KISS tickets as I’ve gotten. Apparently, my interest in seeing them has confounded those closest to me, so I thought I’d provide a little context here. My earliest memory of KISS was seeing KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park on
Fred Van Vactor, a singer/songwriter and friend of mine from Eugene, is participating in a project I’m coordinating for DXG, documenting his life and career with one of their cameras for their blog. I just posted his first episode, which I’m embedding below, but I wanted to share here that if you are an musician,
Your Life Could Be This Band Henry Clay People rule LA with a sound made possible by Yorba Linda In LA, the Henry Clay People are loved—handpicked as openers for giant tours with Airborne Toxic Event, and correctly so, as they are the band that a city still full of crummy cars and cheap guitars
Well, I don’t feel stupid anymore about buying tickets to San Diego’s Street Scene after already buying tickets to see Chromeo at Hard Fest/Hard Summer in LA. Why? Because Hard Summer didn’t happen. I drove to LA tonight with high hopes after 3 years of missing Chromeo every time they came near me on tour.
If you guys know me in real life, or have even maybe encountered me on a street corner, you’ve without a doubt heard me extoll the virtues of WHY?. This band is so good, sometimes I’ll think about that simple fact and then can’t focus on anything else for a while. Is that weird? That’s weird,
I mentioned ages ago that I was planning to attend Outside Lands in San Francisco the weekend of Aug 28-30. I’ve been jockeying for a job at the festival since January, and under the press of conflicting responsibilities that same week, I reluctantly asked to be withdrawn from consideration. (A decision I am still remarkably
Well, recently I saw Fred in Eugene, and he told me his first album was almost ready, and that he’d send me a copy. I’d only been home a few days when it arrived, and I love it. “Leaving Eugene” was my anthem for a while towards the tail end of my time there, and
Well, it took almost exactly two years, but I have finally made it to a second Dirty Sweet show. I’d say that it was worth the wait, but honestly I wish I’d made it out to see them again sooner. “Born to Bleed” and one more song