Joan of Arc is one of the only bands that I will go out to catch live in this terrible weather New York is having right now. I managed to make it to Mercury Lounge, in the Lower East Side of the city, without falling on my face despite the ice-covered sidewalks and drizzling freezing
No amount of pre-show research could have possibly prepared me for Les Savy Fav’s performance last night at The Echoplex. The New Yorkers first started playing together in 1995 but have been on and off since then, having made something of a recent comeback with their August 2010 release Root for Ruin. Having met many
Brandi Emma is a singer/songwriter from Silverlake, but you might also know her as Emma Burgess, In 2007, she released her first solo album Swim to considerable buzz, then tinkering with other musical projects before returning to her birth name and her current endeavor. With a return to her birth name and EP Photographic Memory
If David Berkeley‘s soul could sing, what would it say? It would more than likely be as animated, vibrant and emotionally invested as he sounds when he performs on stage. And since I have the pleasure of describing what it is like to watch him last night at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York
Hipsters heart hip hop, especially when the artist in question is probably silently LOL’ing. Wallpaper., the electro-pop duo of producer/rapper/frontman Ricky Reed (aka UC Berkeley music composition graduate Eric Frederic) and drummer Arjun Singh, must be darlings of that community: They formed the group to satirize mainstream music and American pop culture. True to character—Reed,
Like all others within the ever-expanding genre of mash-up, Super Mash Bros. are a music lover’s paradise. While mash-up artists all strive to serve a healthy dose of rock, pop and hip-hop on a plate, these guys garnish it with a whole lot of party and dance. And yes, it’s as crazy as it sounds.
Spencer “Skip Wicked” Burton of Indubious Society is a funny thing: from birth we’re immersed into an unspoken set of rules and standards. We come to understand what’s socially acceptable, from how we style our hair to what we wear to the set of core values and traditions we believe we should uphold. And yet,
The Angry Orts are neither angry nor orts. In case you don’t know what orts, are, they are, essentially, table scraps. If The Angry Orts’s show was a buffet, there would be nary a scrap to be found. I caught their show at The Woods last night and found myself drowned in a crowd that
On Saturday the 22nd, I headed on out to the Troubadour for another typical night of Los Angeles’ rocking live music scene, and, naturally, I was not disappointed. I don’t mean to make all you non-Angelenos jealous, but you should be totally jealous. It took me a while to understand the hype behind this city,
Last night’s show at Envelope is the kind of thing that, as a music writer, warms my heart. Envelope is a newly opened (about four months old) all-purpose music space designed for everything from rehearsals and shows to recording sessions. Located somewhere in Bushwick, its address is kept secret until you buy a ticket. I had