My goodness! I never expected to receive as much feedback on my purchase of KISS tickets as I’ve gotten. Apparently, my interest in seeing them has confounded those closest to me, so I thought I’d provide a little context here. My earliest memory of KISS was seeing KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park on
Fred Van Vactor, a singer/songwriter and friend of mine from Eugene, is participating in a project I’m coordinating for DXG, documenting his life and career with one of their cameras for their blog. I just posted his first episode, which I’m embedding below, but I wanted to share here that if you are an musician,
Well, I don’t feel stupid anymore about buying tickets to San Diego’s Street Scene after already buying tickets to see Chromeo at Hard Fest/Hard Summer in LA. Why? Because Hard Summer didn’t happen. I drove to LA tonight with high hopes after 3 years of missing Chromeo every time they came near me on tour.
Thursday night was busy as I caught three shows in three clubs, including Dirty Sweet with co-blogger Leona. But before I made it over to Silverlake, I stopped by Genghis Cohen on Fairfax to see a buddy of mine play drums. He was backing hometown talent Michelle Armstrong, a persuasive singer-songwriter with a big voice.
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