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General Music
2024
2023
5/18 Reflections Backstage with Incubus at the “Stellar” Yaamava Theater
3/8 Bob Marley ‘One Love Experience’ celebrates the legacy the reggae legend left behind
1/6 Miley Cyrus Announces ‘Endless Summer’ Album and Celebrates Milestone 30
2022
4/16 Rozzi gives new meaning to “breadwinner” (Kacey Musgraves Cover)
3/2 Rozzi beings beautiful movement, sensuality and soul to “fflow” (Music Video Release)
2021
11/23 ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ documentary shows how Ben Fong-Torres was more than ‘Almost Famous’
2020
2/11 Mandy Moore premieres love letter to her “Fifteen” year-old self (Music Video)
2019
2/16 Rozzi and Scary Pockets “thank u, next” funk rendition (Ariana Grande Cover)
2018
10/15 Rozzi releases soulful jazzy number with Scott Hoying “Lose Us” ahead of debut album ‘Bad Together’ (Single Release)
3/30 Cassadee Pope’s Returns With Bold New Single “Take You Home” (Single Release)
2/14 The Millennial Club’s Debut “Give It Up” Is For The Lovers (Music Video)
2017
7/6 Dream pop rockers LANY debut emotional “Good Girls” (Music Video)
2016
12/18 Maggie Rogers delivers promising future with “Dog Years”
11/22 The Jezabels brought dense, indie-pop numbers to the Independent
11/12 Yuna comes into her own and transforms the Mezzanine on “Chapters” Tour
10/24 Maggie Rogers’ ethereal “Alaska” gets visual treatment in new video
10/10 Dia Frampton’s comeback “Golden Years” will both make and break your heart
10/9 Allen Stone closes Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with all his “Free Love”
9/22 A Trio of Songwriters: Justin Kawika Young, Melissa Polinar, Gabe Bondoc live at The Chapel
8/30 A Response to Dia Frampton’s Fragile, Inspiring Piece on Being a Musician
8/30 ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ Review: An Epic Animated Tale that Brings “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” to Life
8/3 Falling for Whiskey and a Man with HoneyHoney at the Independent
7/28 Kate Earl releases lush music video for “I Love You”
6/17 Olivia Wilde takes us through the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dark Necessities”
5/24 Florence + the Machine performs a heartwarming duet with Hospice Austin teen
5/14 The Record Company lit up the Great American Music Hall with their rock ‘n’ blues
5/10 Air Drumming Workout: Should this LA workout come to the Bay Area?
4/24 Is the San Francisco Music Scene Really Dead? And Have the Millennials Killed It?
4/11 ‘Vinyl’ recreates the birth of disco with DJ Cassidy’s “Kill The Lights” (Music Video)
2/15 St. Vincent and her Signature Guitar Made for Woman, By a Woman
2/2 Ray LaMontagne releases new single “Hey, No Pressure” off new album “Ouroboros”
2015
10/23 Cassadee Pope, Bearded Man, VIP Passes and One “Girl with a Guitar”
10/17 Why Live Music Will Change You (Feat. An Intimate Evening with Milo Greene)
9/9 Lindsey Stirling premieres animated music video “We Are Giants” feat. Dia Frampton
8/24 Behind the Scenes with Dia Frampton on “Let Me Love” & “Bittersweet” by Archis
5/14 Miley Cyrus and her “Happy Hippie” Backyard Sessions (Joan Jett, Laura Jane Grace, Melanie Safka, Ariana Grande)
5/9 Meg Frampton’s return to music with “Say I Said Yes”
3/31 The Show Will Not Go On At Maison, Costa Mesa, CA [Article featured in The New University]
2/19 Archis set to release Monday: What have you missed?
1/28 Milo Greene gets groovy on Conan with “Lonely Eyes”
1/27 Milo Greene celebrates release of “Control” at Fingerprints Music [Album Release & Review] [Article featured in The New University]
1/10 Cassadee Pope makes us feel like we are in outer space with Bon Jovi’s “Bed of Roses”
2014
12/12 Best Modern Spins On Fleetwood Mac Classics [Compilation]
9/19 G (feat. Genevieve) premieres beautifully lush and serene video for “Outer Space”
7/21 Dia Frampton and Josh Kaufman (The Voice) take on “Poison & Wine” by the Civil Wars
7/3 “Begin Again” Soundtrack is a feel-good collection for any music lover (Adam Levine, Keira Knightley, CeeLo Green, Gregg Alexander of New Radicals) [Soundtrack Review]
6/24 In love with Hozier’s bluesy grit and soul in “To Be Alone,” live in Kilkenny
6/10 The Queen of Rock & Roll Lzzy ‘Halestorm’ Hale outshines Country’s Eric Church at CMT Awards 2014″
5/27 Kina Grannis Interview: “Elements,” College and Why she does Music
5/20 Kina Grannis Explores Her ‘Elements’ [Album Review]
5/14 “Dia Frampton’s new music project, Archis, sheds some real “Blood” [Music Premiere]”
3/18 Losing all Raunch and Snarkiness through Kate Earl’s ‘Honey’ (Song) [Song Review]
2/1 Falling in Love with Scarlett Johansson for “One Whole Hour” (Song)
2013
12/9 Kate Earl in the streets as a “One Woman Army” (Live & Acoustic in Downtown Orlando)
11/20 Indie-quartet Milo Greene creates an atmosphere of their own with “Wooden Antlers / Don’t You Give Up On Me” live in KEXP Studio
11/17 Miley Cyrus proves her inevitable talent once again with ‘Summertime Sadness’
11/4 Halestorm adds their own hard-rock flair to Fleetwood Mac classic ‘Gold Dust Woman’
10/28 Legendary Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) meets Lady Antebellum in CMT’s Crossroads
10/11 Cassadee Pope’s new album ‘Frame by Frame’ embraces all she is [Album Review]
10/7 Miley Cyrus shines in spoofing herself in her ‘Saturday Night Live’ debut
9/19 Why I actually really love Miley Cyrus’ new song and video ‘Wrecking Ball’
9/19 Up-and-coming Juno Award-winning artist Serena Ryder performs percussion-filled version of “Stompa”
9/17 Dia Frampton closes her 3rd night of residency at the Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles with sister Meg and “Halloween” (Meg & Dia)
8/28 Remembering “11” and Growing up without a Father with Cassadee Pope (and Happy 24th!)
8/28 I’m Missing Mandy Moore Like “Candy”!
8/18 Why I love Kate Earl and her “Wicked Love,” live at Last.fm Live
8/18 ZZ Ward brings Blues and Hip-hop to Guitar Center
7/26 Miley Cyrus performs Stevie Nicks’ “Landslide” during her Gypsy Heart Tour
7/19 Dia Frampton preaches “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
7/16 Cassadee Pope releases “Wasting All These Tears” music video
6/14 Miley Cyrus and her take on ‘Jolene’ in the Backyard Sessions
3/29 Why I’ve fallen in love with ‘Glee’ (but only Season 4)
3/20 Nicki Bluhm & the Grumblers cover Hall & Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” in their Van
3/15 Ivy Rorschach (Poison Ivy) on Girls and Guitars
2/19 I think I’m addicted to ‘Glee’ (and Melissa Benoist in Season 4)
2/4 ‘The Americans’ hits my 80’s-music soft spot
2/2 “Fleetwood Mac Brings it Back with ‘Tusk’ at their Finest”
2012
12/19 My Testament to Cassadee Pope (The Voice, Season 3 Winner)
12/13 “Money, Money, Money” by The Khaki Scouts
1/20 “Season 3 of ‘The Voice’ is a Celebration of Life”
2011
12/5 Everyone will notice Dia Frampton in ‘Red’ [Album Review]
12/2 My Experience on “The Tonight Show, Jay Leno” with Dia Frampton (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Burbank, CA)
6/29 My Experience on “The Voice” Finale and Dia Frampton (The Voice, Season 1 Finale Results Show, Burbank, CA)
2010
8/26 Meg & Dia and “Roses”: A Biography
Genres
Singer-Songwriter
Andrew Belle | Archis | Dia Frampton | Ed Sheeran | Jimmy Welsh | Kate Earl | Kina Grannis | The Khaki Scouts/Meg Frampton | Ray LaMontagne | Serena Ryder | Yuna
Classic Rock / Oldies
Fleetwood Mac | Hall & Oates | Heart/Ann & Nancy Wilson | Ivy Rorschach/Poison Ivy
Indie Rock / Alternative
Bastille | Company Of Thieves | Hozier | Milo Greene | Silversun Pickups
Electronic / House
Pop / Rock
Anberlin | Cassadee Pope | Halestorm | Mandy Moore | Meg & Dia | Miley Cyrus
Rhythm & Blues / Jazz / Soul
Hall & Oates | Nick Waterhouse | Nicki Bluhm & The Grumblers | Postmodern Jukebox | Scarlett Johansson | ZZ Ward
Americana / Folk / Blues
American Tomahawk | The Civil Wars | Jashub | Lady Antebellum | Ray LaMontagne | Sugar & the Hi-Lows
TV
Female Musicians
Archis | Cassadee Pope | Company Of Thieves | Dia Frampton | Genevieve Schatz | Halestorm | Heart/Ann & Nancy Wilson | Ivy Rorschach/Poison Ivy | Kate Earl | Kina Grannis | The Khaki Scouts | Mandy Moore | Miley Cyrus | Meg & Dia | Nicki Bluhm & The Grumblers | Scarlett Johansson | Serena Ryder | Yuna | ZZ Ward
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