The Wiltern | Los Angeles, CA | March 25, 2016 | Photos by Cortney Armitage | If there’s one thing that X Ambassadors know how to do, it’s own their audience. And with every return to Los Angeles, the audience that X Ambassadors “owns” gets more fervent. Lift off at the Wiltern was immediate: house lights down, intro music up, launch fans into the […]
The Troubadour | Los Angeles, CA | March 12, 2016 | Photos: Cortney Armitage | Anderson East’s Southern comfort, charm and soul enchanted us live for the first time last June at the Hotel Cafe and it was a vivid harbinger of things to come. This Devil In Me tour is his first as a headliner and now with a larger stage to work his magic on, East […]
The Echo | Los Angeles, CA | March 10, 2016 | Photo Credit: ZB Images | For a good 12 songs, 25-year old Eliot Sumner put the sold out Echo through its musical paces like a professional with her style of synth-pop that volleys from soaring rock to darkly foreboding to move your body on the dance floor. Sumner is currently supporting her new […]
The Wiltern | Los Angeles, CA | March 4, 2016 | Photos: Cortney Armitage | Paul Meany (vox, keys) , Roy Mitchell-Cardenás (bass) , Darren King (drums) and Todd Gummerman (guitar) are MuteMath and MuteMath simply are. For some 15 years and counting the New Orleans band have traversed the world opening up hearts, souls and minds with their spaced out, progressive, alternative rock […]
The Belasco Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | March 2, 2016 | Photos: ZB Images | As a solo artist and a member of the groundbreaking group The Fugees, Ms. Lauryn Hill has solidified her place in music history. Playing a pop up show in Los Angeles, Ms. Hill brought her resonant and intimate style of neo soul to the Belasco Theatre.
Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Grill Jazz Club | Bel Air, CA | March 1, 2016 | Words & Photos: Cortney Armitage | The night was never going to be a normal one. Brenna Whitaker’s voice is the something that comes along once in a lifetime: beautiful, bold, resonant, soulful, emotive and colored with shades of jazz’s glorious past and its flourishing present. It might […]
The Troubadour | Los Angeles, CA | February 24, 2016 | Photos: Cortney Armitage | It’s been just over one year since the release of Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors’ latest release, Medicine, but good records sustain their traction. Fleshing out their set with songs old and new, Holcomb and company gave the intimate space of the Troubadour a heightened sense of emotional warmth with their […]
