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
It doesn’t occur to my friend and I how one finds a secret venue. Yes, you can have the address and you can print up directions, but if you don’t know what it is you’re looking for, how can you find it? So, we’re driving through east LA, lost, unsure what to do, when we
For those that haven’t sampled the ’00′s response to the ’80s, tonight is the night for you, because The Dance Party is playing another show at Crazy Girls, which is something of a strip club, but it can hardly be called a strip club since all the girls wear bikinis, so it’s more like a
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.
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
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
This weekend I had the great pleasure of seeing my good friend Ehren Ebbage play two shows. He played The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles on Friday night, following LA-based Pedestrian for a late show, and he played The Gypsy Den in Santa Ana Saturday night. For his set at The Hotel Cafe, Ehren was