The Echoplex | Los Angeles, CA | February 12, 2016 | Photos: ZB Images | Big shows to a room of hundreds, little shows to a handful of friends, family and strangers: no show is unimportant in the development of a band’s live performance chops. Whether sharing a stage with Buddy Guy and Robert Randolph or playing local club gigs for […]
The Fonda Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | February 10, 2016 | Photos: Cortney Armitage | All hail Best Fests and the veritable hodgepodge of brilliant – along with absolutely confounding – musical moments they tend to create as artists and actors, alike, break out into song for the best of causes. As entire events, Best Fests tend to never […]
The Troubadour | Los Angeles, CA | February 8, 2016 | Photos: Cortney Armitage | We’re not even going to pretend not to have been blown away by what went down at the Troubadour, one of music’s most esteemed stages. While the Queens of the Stone Age song “Sick, Sick, Sick” played, if you canted your head up towards the sound, Conor Mason (vox, guitar), Joe […]
The Wiltern | Los Angeles, CA | December 11, 2015 | Photos: ZB Images She was Valerie Anne Poxleitner at birth, but since the age of 18 the world has known the Ontario, Canada native as LIGHTS. It’s a name that actually befits her because, while she may be slight in stature, there’s a deep brightness about her along with a calm warmth behind those […]
Irving Plaza | New York, NY | November 18, 2015 | Words & Photos By Cortney Armitage Sitting in the green room at Irving Plaza in New York City, laughter warms the small, chilly space. We are cramped, but somehow ten people squeeze in and it feels bigger than it should. By the mirror, Katie Jayne Earl (vox) applies her make up […]
The Palladium | Los Angeles, CA | December, 1 2015 | Photo Credit: ZB Images | It seems like only yesterday that we stood outside the venerable Los Angeles venue, Hotel Cafe, leaning against a wall and having a lovely conversation with James Bay. Having just finished wowing the sold out room into awed silence with little more than his voice and a […]
El Rey Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | November 17, 2015 | Photo Credit: Chad Elder | Somewhere amongst the icy hot glares, lyrical vengeance and a tempest ready to erupt upon command, Meg Myers made effective yet expedient work of her return to a Los Angeles stage at the El Rey Theatre. With her full length debut album (Sorry) […]
