Playing live in an abandoned mortuary sounds intimate enough, yet when a woman takes the stage all on her own to a sold-out crowd of fans eagerly hanging onto every note, chills can start […]
I was only fourteen when I learned “Drive” by Incubus. “What song should I use for prayer?” I asked my older brother as I scoured my then iTunes library for a […]
Atmosphere is everything when it comes to a live performance. It could be the lights, the stage, the mood of the crowd or the tall guy in front of you […]
There’s something about a sultry voice mixed with the rock ‘n’ roll twang of a midwestern gal and Northeasterner that just gets me. Maybe it’s the tongue-in-cheek lyrics in “Turn That Finger Around” or heart-on-sleeve […]
As if I needed another reason to love adore admire look up to be completely inspired by Olivia Wilde, here she goes again. And this time it’s with the release of her music video […]
Summertime in the Bay Area is one of the best moments of the year. You can roll your windows down, drive lazily through the streets until sunset or chill out […]
When it comes to a band called The Record Company, you’d expect music that pays homage to the bluesy grit and rock ‘n’ roll of dusty old vinyl records recorded in someone’s […]
When it comes to 1973 New York, the music industry was at an all-time high. New genres were emerging. Post-punk, disco, hip-hop and rock ‘n’ roll were being born. A new […]
“Will you follow me?” Ray LaMontagne asked himself when recording his sixth studio album Ouroboros, expected to drop in early March. The first single, “Hey, No Pressure,” features fuzzy bass lines […]
“Through all my new experiences in jewelry and ‘side man’ gigging for other artists, I could never quite put the quiet voice inside of me to rest,” Meg Frampton writes to […]
Last fall quarter, I took my first Literary Journalism workshop here at UC Irvine. It was required of us to seek out a long-form narrative story (in just ten weeks) and, […]
I’ve seen Milo Greene around four times now, and even though I’ve been familiar with their songs for years, it’s amazing how much an impression they can still leave on […]
If this performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien isn’t enough to get you to listen to Milo Greene’s newest album Control, released just this past Tuesday, I don’t know what will. […]
This performance made me a lot more emotional than I was expecting. “I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses,” Cassadee Pope cries, illuminated by the lighters–or cell […]
Here is my take on “Tusk,” the orchestra-filled jungle-rhythm classic song by one of my all-time favorite rock bands, Fleetwood Mac. This song definitely does not belong on the sole acoustic guitar, […]
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