The vote was rocked last night at the benefit concert held at the Echo in Los Angeles for proposition 15. Buddy Akai started things off around 9:30 with their mix of electro and rock that definitely warmed up the eager crowd. Everyone was ready for the electronic sounds of the Shiny Toy Guns DJ set
Photo by Sean Lieberman Dear Chromeo, I am sincerely sorry for what you were forced to endure on that fateful day of May 15, 2010. Everything looked to be in perfect order for the free music festival, but UCSB’s Extravaganza lacked something essential – class. I was appalled to see the way that attendees
I caught Christa Mae and the Brigade last Thursday, April 29th, at the Viento Y Agua coffee house in Long Beach, where they previewed songs from their upcoming album The Truth Is… Armed with an acoustic guitar and backed by a bassist and drummer, I noticed Mae’s arrangement was stripped down in comparison to
Rare Grooves plays a guerrilla show at the Irvine Post Office. Tonight, Tuesday May 4th, Rare Grooves will be playing at The Smell in Los Angeles with Daniel Francis Doyle. Rare Grooves is the new, punk/garage rock effort of guitarist/vocalist Danny Miller and drummer/vocalist Tabor Allen after the split up of their former band, Widow
I went backstage at the Aqualung show, and everyone touched my nuts. Monday’s show at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles gave me a tiny taste of what it’s like to be on the road for a national tour. I arrived at about 5:30, and my good friend, Ehren Ebbage, who is on board for
So, okay, they aren’t exactly new, but it is hard to argue that Pavement isn’t special. Sure, as a 22- year-old I can’t claim I’d been there or participated when they first came around. I’d never heard of Pavement until my sophomore year of high school in 2005, six years and several solo projects after
What do you get when you combine the musical discipline of a classically trained composer with the black-leather-wearing, chain-smoking sensibilities of a hardcore punk rocker, and then hand him some DJ equipment and synthesizers just for kicks? What you get is Bob Cornelius Rifo’s newest musical escapade, the Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77. At first
Chad Matheny of Emperor X will be playing a guerilla show tonight at the 24-hour Post office lobby on 17192 Murphy Ave, Irvine, CA 92614. Several other acts will also be in attendance, switching off between songs round-robin style. The show starts at 11pm and ends when the cops break it up. I encourage everyone
The Baltimore-based dream pop duo Beach House made a much-appreciated stop at Santa Barbara’s Soho Music Club on Friday, April 16, before heading into the desert heat for their Coachella appearance. The crowd was desperate to see the sold out show, with some fans lining up in front of the venue hours before the doors
This weekend my girlfriend and I are going to San Francisco to measure a bridge (not the whole bridge, I’ve been told over and over again). You might have heard of this bridge. It’s called “The Golden Gate Bridge” and wikipedia describes it as “a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the