Though I had never heard of the soft-spoken Rocky Votolato before last week, it was clear that he had plenty of fans in the audience when he walked onstage at The Troubadour Saturday night, and the room erupted in cheers and girls’ screams. With the trifecta of a scruffy beard, flannel, and tattooed forearms, he looked
Last night, the Brooklyn trio known as BRAHMS took the stage at the GlassLands in Brooklyn, New York to reintroduce themselves. Not as something other than the drummer-less band we have come to know and love, but as more mature, confident gentleman who have really found their place in a world full of bands trying
Chocolate Genius Inc. is an enigma. The musical project of New York artist Marc Anthony Thompson performed last night at Bootleg Theater to an attentive and intrigued audience, and I’m fairly certain that the majority of the audience left with more questions about his origins and inner workings than they arrived with. He began the
Whether it’s the overpriced food, the merchandise or the cheesy tourists, for better or worse, the Hard Rock Café has a particular stigma attached to it. However, the new Café at the Hollywood and Highland shopping center in Los Angeles has been trying to rebrand itself as a home to live music. On Tuesday
wavves rock out, courtesy their myspace Saturday, February 19th was no night for vocalists at the Hawthorne Theater in the South East corner of Portland, Oregon. With a line-up that consisted of No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves, volume and reverb were key figures in nearly every song, drowning out lyrics that no one, including
Last night, Delicate Steve and Akron/Family took to the stage of a sold-out Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. The room was an eclectic mix of hipsters, music aficionados and indie-rock fans (sometimes as the same person). Delicate Steve, or the 23-year-old virtuoso also known as Steve Marion, recently burst onto the scene with the impressive
On the warmest night so far this year, Asobi Seksu played a sold out show at Mercury Lounge. This night’s lineup consisted of all bands representing New York, mainly Brooklyn (what up!). The opener, Elika, is an electro pop duo from Brooklyn, with a guy on knobs/laptop, and a girl on vocals. It was hard
At the New Music Seminar this week, I heard the words “revolution” and “redefine” countless times. Everyone from the founder Tom Silverman of Tommy Boy Records to CEO of Pandora Joe Kennedy agreed that the old way of doing business is dead, and that the music industry was “rising from the ashes” with a wealth
So Saint Motel brought the dead back to life for the third consecutive year in a row- and they definitely did it with a bang! The undead were swarming around downtown’s Hotel Alexandria anxiously awaiting this year’s coveted pre-valentine’s day event, displaying it’s not enough to give one’s heart- it’s better if you eat it
Portland’s Mississippi Studios was packed last night for the Nicole Atkins/Cotton Jones show. People who showed up early enough to see The Ascetic Junkies open were the lucky ones, though. In spite of their austere-sounding name, The Ascetic Junkies play with pure hedonistic abandon. They’re a pop band. Or are they a bluegrass band? They