Riverdale: All About Season Three

We are fast approaching season 3 of Riverdale and while you may have already read the latest news and gossip about the show (especially if you’re as much of a junkie as myself), thanks to our time at San Diego Comic-Con with the cast of Riverdale, here are all the things I’m personally looking forward to in season 3: The […]

The Struts Prove Bulletproof, Baby, At Bowery Ballroom

Bowery Ballroom | New York, CA | October 3, 2018 | Photos: Cortney Armitage | Words: Fred Sahai |   “No one tells me what I can and cannot fucking do!” declared Luke Spiller, the androgynous frontman of the UK glam rock band The Struts, to the second sold-out crowd that he and bandmates Adam Slack (guitar), Jed Elliott (bass), and […]

Music Monday: Albums Of The Week

As they tend to do on Fridays, a bevy of new releases came and went. While – honestly – there are far too many releases to chat you up about, here are a select two vastly different offerings. Both from two gentlemen whose names begin with the letter “C” and both are equally worth digging into. I promise. Cobi – […]

Album of the Week: Patrick Droney

Welcome to your Album of the Week. WHO: Patrick Droney WHAT: His self-titled EP WHY: Over the years the blues have continued to find old souls in younger and younger places to safely rest and express: the latest exemplar coming into the wider music world’s focus being a 26-year-old Patrick Droney. Something of a prodigy, Droney is hardly new to […]

Music Family Takes Over The Moroccan Lounge For Wolf Bay’s Single Release Party

Moroccan Lounge | Los Angeles, CA | July 29, 2018 | Photos: Chris Camargo | It was a single release party and a fundraiser but – possibly of the greatest importance – it was also a gathering more familial than not. On Sunday night Los Angeles and the Moroccan Lounge welcomed music industry veteran Dean Passarella’s new artist incarnation, Wolf Bay (whose […]

DREAMERS LAUNCH at Harvard & Stone

Harvard & Stone | Los Angeles, CA | July 12, 2018 | “I’m going to enjoy the hell out of this moment: I invite you to do the same.” Nick Wold (DREAMERS) Thanks for the invitation Nick and, as a matter of fact, we absolutely did enjoy the hell out of ourselves. Secret/invitation-only shows happen all of the time here […]

Sentimental Porno By SWIMM

SWIMM | Sentimental Porno | Rating: 7.5/11 | For some four years SWIMM has been a charming gem within Los Angeles’ creative space: a band with an indie-rock bend that flirted with the psychedelic, the soulful and the just plain weird. Two EPs and some life lived later, co-founders Chris Hess and Adam Winn along with Hany Zayan and Marton Bizits […]