I won’t be there, because I have tickets to the Dirty Sweet show at Spaceland, but if you’re in or around Long Beach on Thursday, please check out my friend Christa Mae at Viento Y Agua. She’s opening for Tiff Jimber, and she’s a dynamo.
Of course, then I started fantasizing about people googling “Oh, Leona!” once they’d seen (and inevitably coveted) the fetching shirt. Then I realized that “Oh, Leona!” is a fairly important part of my personal brand, and that I had never googled it myself. Then I did. And what I discovered was that: A. My Website
I think it was my co-contributor Rob who gave me the idea a long time ago that it was right and good to like Stevie Wonder, and that “Talking Book” and “Songs in the Key of Life” were the quintessential albums to own. I bought Songs in the Key of Life ages ago, and I
One of the highlights of my career this year so far was staging the fourth annual Bach Remix at The District, a nightclub and venue in Eugene, Oregon. My partner in this endeavor was a friend from graduate school, PhD candidate DJ Food Stamp, a.k.a. Andre Sirois.
DC-based These United States are one of the best honest working bands alive, and they’re in California this week. After a gig at the Hemlock Tavern tonight in San Francisco and The Starry Plough tomorrow in Berkeley, they’ll make their way down to Los Angeles on July 9 at the Echoplex. If you haven’t seen
I don’t know what they do down there, but Saturday Night Live has seriously got the worst sound ever in their live music segments. And thanks to folks like Ashley Simpson and Kanye West, their audio weakness has been in the news fairly recently. The things they lack as a music forum, though, are actually
I had a lovely barbecue tonight with a group of friends, and I rushed beforehand to make a playlist in my iTunes appropriate for use during summery barbecues. I wanted it to be a mix of fast and slow, classic rock and danceable party beats, sing-along classics everyone can join in during, and various bands
I know Coachella is this weekend, and that that’s what most of the buzz I’ve been seeing online this week is about, but I just read the full lineup for the second annual Outside Lands in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this August, and I am SALIVATING. I think it’s weird that the bands that were
A few years ago, my friend Chris was telling me about his life-long friend, Stoney Sharp, who had moved from Florida to LA and was making music videos. If you’re from Southern California (or probably New York), you’re well familiar with people’s “friends” who are “in” the entertainment industry, and how the introduction of one
I want to publish interviews with bands and musicians I love here, but I am a terrible interviewer. As gifted as I am with writing in “spin,” I stink as a straight journalist. Having made my peace with that, I decided to try to come up with a generic list of interview questions that I