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We learned more from a three minute record than we ever did in school. – Bruce Springsteen
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You may have noticed I’ve been writing less, putting up less content and the site has been threadbare for much of April. I’m bored. Bored with the direction of music, bored with the same old same old in the music industry and bored with the decline of the rock genre. There are a few really […]
Posted in: Music
The Lumineers Have a Big Parade at the Greek
April 22, 2013
by Shelby Lynn De Mello Sometimes, a number of events occur in rapid succession that take that glimmer of hope that I have in humans and the universe to be good and decent and loving at the core, and crush it to ash. I won’t rehash the specifics as, unless you’ve been living under a […]
Posted in: Live Review, Music
Nick Cave Murders Bill Graham
April 10, 2013
I must confess that I am not as big a fan of Nick Cave as say my friend, from the San Jose Mercury News, Jim Harrington (check out his work here). Maybe concerts have lost there luster. I like Nick Cave and I enjoyed the show, though I wasn’t enamored by it. I wonder if […]
Posted in: Live Review, Music
Album Reviews: Parenthetical Girls, Neon Indian
April 9, 2013
Here’s another installment of amazing album reviews by Amanda Danielle: Parenthetical Girls – Privileges by Amanda Danielle This group of musicians have captured my full and complete attention. Forming In Everett, Washington and residing in Portland, Oregon The Parenthetical Girls (formerly known as The Swastika Girls), have given a new meaning to cinematic experimental baroque […]
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Music News: Morrissey, GRMLN, MS MR, Cloud Boat, TLC
April 9, 2013
On this date in 1967, The Doors and Jefferson Airplane appeared at Cheetah in Santa Monica, California. This was the largest show The Doors had played to date with a crowd of over 3,000. Margaret Thatcher died yesterday and I think Morrissey said it best in his piece over at the Daily Beast. GRMLN‘s debut […]
10 Questions w/ Drea Smith of Pyyramids
April 8, 2013
by Amanda Danielle I had a chat with Drea Smith who is the more mysterious half of Pyyramids and got to know her thoughts on the band’s direction and get a feel for who she is as an artist. Her talent is only outdone by her genuine persona, here’s what she had to say: Amanda […]
LA Concert Calendar: 4/8 – 4/14
April 8, 2013
Monday Red Hot Chili Peppers – Fonda Theatre Rihanna – Staples Center Hands – Echoplex Chief – The Satellite Steel Panther – HOB Sunset Kool Skull – Pehrspace Tuesday Kip Moore – El Rey Theater Rihanna – The Honda Center DWNTWN – Central SAPC Red Hot Chili Peppers – Fonda Theater Hi Fashion – The […]
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April 25, 2013
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