A few years ago, my friend Chris was telling me about his life-long friend, Stoney Sharp, who had moved from Florida to LA and was making music videos. If you’re from Southern California (or probably New York), you’re well familiar with people’s “friends” who are “in” the entertainment industry, and how the introduction of one
20 Questions with John Shipe

I want to publish interviews with bands and musicians I love here, but I am a terrible interviewer. As gifted as I am with writing in “spin,” I stink as a straight journalist. Having made my peace with that, I decided to try to come up with a generic list of interview questions that I
John Shipe at The Gypsy Den in Santa Ana

John Shipe, a good friend of mine from Eugene, has been parked in San Diego for the last six months, and he finally played a couple of shows in Orange County recently. His shows on January 30th and March 6th at the Santa Ana location of The Gypsy Den, were characteristically solid. John is a
Carney at Outside Lands, August 2008

I discovered recently that an interview I did with Carney at San Francisco’s Outside Lands last August was edited into a video blog they did for CrowdFire. I’d been wondering where the footage was, and now I know that it went from a spontaneous interview in which I was VERY charming to a handful of
The Ruse: Swallow You
Aside from spots on The Hills and Entourage, LA band The Ruse was one of the last bands to take our Main Stage before Blue Comet Cafe transitioned to Blue Comet TV. Check out their profile on BCTV, and dig this massive pop song, “Swallow You”:
Christa and The Adjustments at Clancy’s Irish Pub, 3/15/09

This Sunday I went to see my good friend, Christa Knudsen, play at an Irish Pub in Long Beach with her new band, The Adjustments. Christa Knudsen The set was great. Simple, straightforward music that provided a solid foundation for the poetry Christa has been writing longer than I’ve known her (since her freshman year