Sometimes you need to just be dancing in the streets- down in Chicago, New Orleans, New York City- Sunset Junction- and to give you your fix of cardio craziness via dance-off, Sunset Junction brought in Deejay Echo to fuel your fire- and he did not disappoint!   At this point every L.A. kid looking to party didn’t care about the name- they were judging the music- the track transitions needed to be eased into with care- so as not to…

“Press!  If you DO NOT want to get HURT- get the hell out- because I’m telling you this gate will come down, and you will!”  The head security guy pleaded with all of us yesterday before Edward Sharpe stormed the stage.  Now I’ve been apprehensive before- I’ve been in moshpits, I’ve seen a friend get a concussion during a Cannibal Corpse show, been in pits for Trivium, Hatebreed, Down- and I wasn’t actually nervous like I was standing there last…

So Sunset Junction was a bit rampant with chaos, and the hype was spreading faster than a Justin Bieber twitter update.  Between the heat, parking chaos, and the band performing pre-Saint Motel, I was lucky enough to get the ever angelic and fiendishly charming boys of Saint Motel (A/J, ASharp, Dak, Gregory) backstage for a little 411 sesh, and we were forced to get up close and personal.  And I mean- up close- huddled in a tent yelling over the…

Though the music scene has been an abundance of bands that using the prefix of ‘Wolf’ in its names over the past few years, there is a new band that takes on the name of our favorite furry predators. The British-based band Wolf People are doing the hunting rather than being the hunted. With a new album, Steeple, coming out on October 12 on Jagjaguwar, the band blends together the sound of ‘60s rock and folk along with some groovy…