Ginger Wildheart, what a talented individual. Now here’s a guy who eats, sleeps and bleeds music. I recently got the pleasure of watching two intimate solo performances from The Wildhearts frontman Ginger here in LA (July 16th @ Viper Room and July 17th @ El Rey). He put together a stellar band (Michael Butler – Jetboy, Scott Lipps, and Billy […]

There haven’t been very many moments in my life where a celebrity death really stopped me dead in my tracks. I watched my father pause when Kurt Cobain & Jerry Garcia died. In fact, I think Jerry’s death might have been the first time I can recall seeing my father cry. Guess now it’s my turn to have someone’s iconic […]

Ok, I admit I've never bought any album Jack White's previously put out. I've respected his work, dug a few tracks, and even accidentally even saw The Raconteurs live once. And now I find myself watching The Dead Weather live and I feel I may have missed out on something in the past few years. Maybe I was too quick […]

I'm currently watching Living Things at The Roxy and I'm thinking this St Louis glam rock four piece band might be the last or at least only band of today trying to spread a message. Now when I say that I mean the way Bob Dylan and bands of the 60s/70s fought for equality, free love and no war. Every […]

I’ve got a couple of albums I can’t stop spinning right now and felt the need to talk about them further on this space. 1. Cage The Elephant – Cage The Elephant: These San Diego “hipsters” are really leaving quite the impression everywhere they go. Their debut album has a good four singles (at least) on it and their live […]

I recently discovered the newest “it’ band for everyone to check out. They are called The Yelling. Based in Los Angeles and playing The Viper Room every two weeks for the next six weeks, The Yelling are a band that doesn’t disappoint. The singer, Nathaniel Cox, sounds like a cross of Cedric Bixler-Zavala from the Mars Volta & Josh Ostrander […]

Maybe this is better put in the festival section, but since I'm not quite there yet I'm placing it here. Why? Because I can. Sitting at the airport waiting to board my oh-so-fabulous Southwest flight to M3. Just paid $6 for a Naked Green Machine – what is THAT about? Just because we're stuck within the confines of the terminal […]