The Belasco Theater | Los Angeles, CA | February 2, 2018 | Words & Photos: Chris Camago | Fetty Wap’s FMF Tour came through Los Angeles with (as Eminem said) the bass so loud that it shakes the place: at least twice speakers fell off the stage. Doors opened at 7:15 pm – more than two hours before Fetty Wap came […]

The Echoplex | Los Angeles, CA | January 29, 2018 | Words & Photos: ZB Images |   We can only hope that the rest of 2018 is as magical as Monday nights have been at the Echo and – because of high demand – the Echoplex. I think everyone who experiences her show would agree that Lauren Ruth Ward […]

Bowery Ballroom | New York, NY | January 10, 2018 | Words & Photos: Cortney Armitage |   Her message is of love and freedom and – clearly – it resonated as Dorothy’s show was sold out at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. The freedom to love whomever you choose and, in a moment that exemplified this, Dorothy […]

Selecting 11 shows to spotlight (in no ranking order) is always a challenge, but it has to be done. Why? Because…well, I don’t have a real answer for that other than it’s a thing that we do. So here are a few of the top shots from some of the great live shows and artists that graced us this year. […]

Bowery Ballroom | New York, NY | November 21, 2017 | Words & Photos: Cortney Armitage |   Racing to the venue after getting held up in Mexico City, Sheppard slid into Bowery Ballroom in NYC in the nick of time to play to die hard fans for whom it had been two years since the indie pop Aussies made […]

The Troubadour | Los Angeles, CA | November 18, 2017 | Photo Credit: ZB Images |   We’re not sure if the world is ready for Black Pistol Fire. In September the twosome released their fifth full album, Deadbeat Graffiti; by far their strongest, most cohesive and fine-tuned fusion of the Led Zeppelin-esque dirty garage rock, soul and Texas-touched deep blues […]

The NOVO DTLA | Los Angeles, CA | November 15, 2017 | Photo Credit: ZB Images |   Outrage is as outrage does and Outrage! Is Now (see what we did there?) with Toronto’s Sebastien Grainger (vox/drums) and Jesse F. Keeler (bass) who brought their fiercely dense, thunderous and dancey noise rock to Los Angeles. While the venue was far from […]