The Music Box (quickly becoming one of my fave venues) was aflutter last night, everyone waiting eagerly in anticipation for the grade A list lineup to get started. Whereas most L.A. kids show up fashionably late to shows, intentionally choosing to forego the opening acts and get there right in time for the main attraction,
Today’s Playlist includes a little bit of everything BestNewBands.com has featured this week, from folk to punk-rock to dubstep – everything your music-loving hearts could desire! Listen and enjoy… “Shoeshine” – Black Taxi In this weekend’s BackStory Bonus, the guys of Black Taxi tell us about their single, “Shoeshine.” “Shoeshine is a song written by
If you can count on anything when at a music fest, you can count on one week of zero sleep, a little insanity, and a whole lot of chaos. You’re assaulted for five long days with various CD’s, millions of artists your inner musical masochist couldn’t be happier. After surviving a music fest North of
There are several signs indicating whether a show will be stellar or not. From the lack of parking anywhere in the same zipcode as the Bootleg Theater, I knew I was in for a little musical insanity. After travelling from the entirely different country I’d left my car in, I made my way to the
Welcome to the first Weekend Playlist of 2011! Review some of the musical events from the week with these 10 fresh tracks… “Dumb (Live at the WOW Hall)” – Medium Troy Monica Christoffels began 2011 at the WOW Hall with Medium Troy. Monica wrote, “The aptly-dubbed ‘Kings of the WOW Hall’ certainly lived up to
Well since two founding members of Paramore- Josh and Zac Farro- have decided to 86 their namesake, you may be experiencing withdrawals. You may feel the need to go out and find an immediate replacement, a semi distraction from the inevitable pain you’ll experience when first missing the female led rock group. Since twelve step
In this special edition of BackStory, Brandon Welch of Far-Less tells us the story behind the darkly poetic “So Glad!” “So Glad” was the first song that I had ever wrote for FL. Jordan (Powers) and Mark (Karsten) helped a bit with the music but the original idea was hatched in my bedroom on my
With the holidays fast approaching music venues in our silver screen laden city are stepping up their game to bring us special lineups set to induce a little extra holiday cheer. Tonight, mid-December is no exception and the Hotel Café is set to kick start two nights of music mayhem with their two-night tenth anniversary
Last night Jeremy Silver rocked the Hotel Café with his CD release show, and the great turn out of fans, friends, and music fiends were not disappointed. Silver waded his way through every track off his just-dropped “Everybody Knows” and the transitions between the more upbeat to the softer slightly more self-reflective songs was an
My mailbox has been bombarded with CD’s lately (and yes, I take the time to listen to all of them) and yesterday, I received a CD I’ve been anxiously waiting to listen to- Stateless’ latest edition to the music world, “Matilda.” With a history of amazing songs like “Bloodstream” I had high expectations for their