Bardot–a Los Angeles club tucked into Hollywood’s dense layout–is swanky. Swanky like an old-school mansion with dark weaving hallways, swanky like tentatively walking in on some exclusive party, unsure of where you belong. Old friends met and chatted holding colorful drinks in dim light, surrounding me as I squeezed onto brocaded couches. People old and
Is this real life or a Nicholas Sparks novel? Closing a honey-hued summer with a sunset and live music will be Dawes (and the sun, I guess), and this sounds too good to be true. Well, believe it. The alt-rock, country-tinted quartet will be playing a free show along with Sonny & the Sunsets (how
I find I encounter this issue frequently: I am going to a concert, and I range from vaguely familiar with to wholeheartedly obsessed with one of the bands, and am completely clueless about the opener or headliner or co-headliner or whatever other band. So here’s a novel idea–a tour sampler featuring glimpses of the bands
On Saturday night, I got the chance to see a band called Dawes open up for Brett Dennen at the Orpheum Theater. Walking in downtown L.A. to the brightly-lit theater, I realized there really was a world beyond the seemingly impenetrable haze of the city’s skyline, and I found myself excited to have discovered this—like
With a new EP out last month (Prepare For Black & Blue) and a voice reminiscent at times of a younger Eddie Vedder, The White Buffalo is primed and ready to take the country rock world by storm. He is a storyteller by trade and his voice can scale from quiet love songs to brooding
SUNSET JUNCTION DON’T MISS LIST! Since most people in Los Angeles are addicted to music- us track addicts are over recovering from Lollapalooza insanity, and on to sorting out our next festival that promises a little music mayhem! Enter Sunset Junction- a little music fest that will take place Saturday, August 21 & Sunday, August