Nowadays, we seem to be regularly told that rock & roll is dead. Honestly, people have been ringing rock’s death knell for decades, at least since electroni...
Chilean singer and songwriter Mon Laferte is an absolute force of nature. Her music, which blends alt-rock and pop with traditional cumbia and bolero, is specta...
The continued and very welcome return of live music continues in September, when Irvine is truly spoiled for major shows. But with COVID conditions still changi...
Melodic rapper June3rd was a fresh-faced 19-year-old when he made the move from Kissimmee, Florida, to Los Angeles. He was a small-town boy, the sort of place w...
Dirty Honey feels like a vital rock & roll band right now. We don’t mean that in a hackneyed, journalistic “you gotta hear this” sort of way, but rather in ...
Mia Berrin of Brooklyn alt-rockers the Pom Pom Squad is not going to take any of your shit. None of it! The emotive vocalist and songwriter has a voice that can...
The Hard Summer Music Festival is back this year at the National Orange Show Event Center in San Bernardino. For many of the performers, which include the likes...
When the Descendents formed in Manhattan Beach in 1977, they were snotty kids in their mid teens. That original lineup featured Tony Lombardo on bass and Frank ...
Back in May, we published a couple of short articles about alt-pop band Waterparks – a Calendar Pick and one of our “My Favorite Album” columns. Frontman Awsten...
While the world continues to open up in pretty much every other way, it’s fair to assume that streaming and downloading will be the standard means of listening ...
