They might chafe against such hyperbole but truth is truth: Pearl Jam is American rock music royalty. But love for them travels well outside of US borders, so this is making a lot of music fans all over the world very happy right now. The official trailer for PJ20 is here. Cameron Crowe’s documentary of insight and perspectives accounts the […]

“Summer breeze makes me feel fine. Blowing through the jasmine of my mind.” You know the Seals & Croft tune, don’t you? Well, that’s where my head goes when I see and hear the fresh and newly minted Los Angeles five-piece Milo Greene. Born of friends and fragments of former bands, Milo Greene is that thing of folk and pop […]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is one of the finest examples of a band of badass proportions which you need to file under: “Holy sh*t!”. It’s Dead Sara and they make me believe in the future of quality, unadulterated music. A foursome of equal parts XX and XY chromosomes, Los Angeles’ Dead Sara is a much welcomed and […]

It almost feels like the joke that regurgitates upon itself repeatedly to the same lack of audience-appreciation because we’re just not smart enough to glean the punchline. Yeah, we semi-serious music types totally suck. What could have come and gone down in history as one of the internet’s and pop culture’s most fascinating, albeit unfortunate, memes had someone had the […]

The last time that I saw him live was in 2009, but no matter how many times I hear the man sing, he never fails to emotionally manhandle me. He’s William Elliott Whitmore: an Iowan son and a man born of the roots and rich soil of his Iowa. With a voice of pure and unadulterated blues and folk, wrapped […]

…going to cause a stir in hipster-central on Friday, July 15th at the LA tastemaker of venues, Silverlake’s The Satellite. A brand new project (I guess it’s okay to call them supergroup) under the moniker Vicky Cryer will be taking the stage. Ooh la la, I say. Now expect the musically inclined, as well as the downright curious, to be […]

You live in Los Angeles, you’re in a rock band, and the end of the world is on the horizon, so what do you do? If you’re Prince then you party like it’s 1999. Apparently LA’s Saint Motel are good students of how to go out like you mean it because on Saturday, May 21st the show to end all […]