Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Troubadour (Los Angeles, CA) | December 21, 2012 | A widely held belief by hippies, hipsters and spiritual path-seekers was that 12/21/12 would usher in the Age of Aquarius: a new and great human era of change. Other intellectually light individuals believed that the world would end. Which would kind of suck. But here on […]

Simon Amstell | Numb | Largo (Los Angeles, CA) | November 13, 2012 | To sum up: painfully hilarious. Both in the physical – keeled over in one’s chair, or perhaps curled on the floor having fallen out of one’s chair, with arms curled around one’s stomach from laughing – sense and the metaphysical sense (which was explored as the show went on). […]

Heartless Bastards | Echoplex (Los Angeles, CA) | April 3, 2012 | If there’s anything that you – the collective masses – can assume, if not outright lay Vegas odds on, it’s that 2012 will be the year of the Heartless Bastards. Yes, technically it’s the year of the Dragon, but lets add another wedge to the Chinese zodiac wheel […]

Little Hurricane | The Troubadour (West Hollywood, CA) | January 10, 2012 |  Where San Diego’s Little Hurricane are concerned, the male/female band dynamic is simple and so are the standard comparisons but in reality, a few listens to a few of their songs and it’s safe to conclude that the less we talk about The White Stripes, the better. […]

The Lumineers | The Hotel Cafe (Los Angeles, CA) | January 6, 2012 | Folksters, The Lumineers, are starting to make a name for themselves in Los Angeles. “We’ve never sold out anything in LA before” marveled frontman Wesley Schultz in front of the packed house at The Hotel Cafe. Not only did the band max out the capacity in […]

30 Seconds To Mars | Hammerstein Ballroom (New York, NY) via Live Stream at VyRT.net  | December 7, 2011 | You can say this much for 30 Seconds To Mars: they know how to go out in style. After promoting their latest album, This Is War, on a tour spanning nearly every continent over a period of more than two […]

Black Box Revelation | The Wiltern (Los Angeles, CA) | December 3, 2011 | File this under “Keep it simple, stupid.” Not that there’s anything stupid about Black Box Revelation. On the contrary, they’re downright brilliant. Brilliant because they’ve figured out and put into execution the most economical band dynamic and the end result truly does not suck. For ten […]